Meet the Plastics!

A Daily Dot article about Extreme Online Personas brought up something you may have missed. It may have been kept from your attention by a kind friend who didn't want to let you know it exists. I am not that friend.

Yes indeed. 443 likes! Nine thousand dislikes. Doctor made my dreams come true, now I look like Justin too!

It's almost unlistenable. You know your singing career faces an uphill climb when even your auto tuned moments are out of tune.

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DESSERT The rise and fall of everything continues: Yesterday it was the End of Memes, and today it's the end of frozen yogurt.

So it's over in New York. Well, if it's over in the center of the observable universe, it'll be over here soon enough. Or will it? The article cites the reasons fro-yo is stumbling in Gotham: Too many stores, faded novelty, excess rent.

Don't think we've hit Peak Yogurt here yet.

ARCHITECTURE China keeps building big: a new 560-meter skyscraper. I wondered: what's that in American? The Empire State Building is 381 meters, without the tip. No, I'm not going to do Banana-for-scale.

The flared base is reminiscent of some 70s American buildings. Unfortunately.

The second-tallest building in the world is in Shanghai, under construction: it's 632 meters high, 121 stories.

I wish we still built lots of tall buildings, but the more I see of these things, the less it bothers me.

HISTORY The mystery of Dante's dust, from Atlas Obscura: