There are many web sites out there that make me think, “Man, why didn’t I think of that?”  So many ideas seem obvious once someone else thinks of them, but they weren’t beforehand.

One of my favorite recent finds of this type is News from 1930.  Each day, he quotes and summarizes a bunch of articles from the Wall Street Journal of the same day in 1930.  (The page I linked to was a Sunday so the Journal wasn’t printed that day, so he picks some favorites from the week.)  Some typical selections: Read more »