I generally let my news aggregator do a lot of my idle web surfing for me. I’m not knocking it: I end up finding way better stuff, and finding out more points of view on individual news stories than I ever could without it. But a downside is that a big chunk of my media consumption ends up being filtered through news sites and blogs, which by their nature is an interlinking cloud of buzz moving linearly forward through time. I’ve been more in the mood for something less ephemeral. From Walden: “What news! how much more important to know what that is which was never old!” So, a good place to find things which were never old, and plenty of things that are old, too, is the Wikipedia.

Today, the thing I found that I knew nothing about was Ray Johnson and mail art. Yesterday, I used it to see if George Washington Carver invented peanut butter. (He didn’t: Dr. Kellogg did).

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