1. I’ll always read a long piece about Costco. “Can the Golden Age of Costco Last?” (We got our first rotisserie chicken from Costco this week! A whole new world!)
2. This history of the @ symbol is delightful:
The ancient Greeks were fond of a style of clay pot called an amphora. … as time went on, an amphora became a standard unit of measure.
“Merchants had to communicate the idea that ‘I’m going to sell you a certain number of amphoras of something or other at a particular price’ quite a lot,” [author Keith] Houston says. And eventually, people started drawing an “a” with a long tail wrapped around it and skipping the rest of the letters.

