As A Committed Grudge-Holder...

The most popular link last week was the Paper Apps™, with this essay about storage units second.

What I'm up to: Making my umpteenth attempt at Couch to 5k. Feeling gleeful because I finally worked out how to read a graphic novel on my phone. Arguing with my choir director about how to rhyme "married" and "mermaid" in a folk song. Pulling out the mittens I'm knitting for the seventh time because I still can't do colourwork reliably. Normal end-of-February things.

1. I love Gina Trapani's visualisation "My Life in Weeks", which plots out her existence alongside major world events like the Clinton inauguration and the first broadcast of The X-Files. And it stretches into the future, with boxes yet to be filled. Thinking of a life in weeks rather than years or eras, in the same way that Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks does, is so much more comprehensible to me.
2. I'm a big advocate of coming up with the name for a project first and then retrospectively working out what it should be. I don't know that that's what happened with the podcast It's Reigning Men, but I have my suspicions. It's delightful, though — I've always wanted to listen to half an hour of backstory for King Harald V of Norway.
3. As both a dedicated Emily Gould stan and a committed grudge-holder, I gleefully devoured her new essay "How I Quit Having a Grudge Against Lena Dunham".

4. I found this 2013 article by Christopher Fletcher, Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library, quite moving. Every time they acquire a manuscript that has pins in it — a centuries-old pre-word processing technique used by everyone including Jane Austen to attach edits and additions to a manuscript without having to rewrite it completely — they carefully remove the pins, date them and save them in a special box. Just in case anyone ever wants to do another PhD on "the use of pins in literature", I suppose.
5. Seb Emina's coinages for the new types of social media user are excellent (they're number three in this digest). I think I'm a Deskatarian who aspires to be a Gutenberg Girl. Which are you?
6. I love the Northern Irish accent. See also: the singer Duke Special, who is can easily rhyme the word "tower" with the phrase "you are".

7. A daily drawing of the Titanic, for ten years and counting. Sometimes it's sinking, sometimes it's done in fun colours, but it's always worth looking at.
8. On mourning the media industry of ten years ago:

"In recent weeks, two of the people who I consider my formative editors in this stupid business have verbally shaken me by the shoulders and tried to wake me from this stubborn nostalgia. 'YOU NEED TO ACCEPT THAT 2014 WASN’T REAL,' each of them said to me."

9. As a savoury food goblin who would probably put salt on salt if that was physically possible, I excited to make Molly Goldberg's Pickle Soup.
10. This is a great primer on what the audiobook boom means for publishing at the moment. It also includes a suggestion to replace podcasts with non-fiction audiobooks, something I've been trying out for myself this month and really enjoying. Essay collections are where it's at, I think. More on this in my February reading update, coming your way on Monday.

11. I know very little about K-pop and am not in the market for a new music fixation at the moment. But I loved this live performance by Blackpink's Jisoo because the choreography is exactly the kind of thing I was trying to do to Britney songs when I was nine.
12. Behind The Scenes At The (British) Museum.
13. An interview with Nadia Odunayo, the woman behind my reading tracking platform of choice, the Storygraph. When asked if she would ever consider selling to Amazon (like Goodreads), she said: "That’s not something we’re interested in."