Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track.

Welcome to The Monday List.

Each Monday, we’ll link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.

What We’re Reading This Week:

This Algorithm’s Taste in Wine Is Better Than Yours
With the new site Verve Wine, master sommelier Dustin Wilson sides with the robots.

Material Design vs Flat Design UI
What’s the Difference?

The Electric Porsche Needs to Roar“Our customers are very emotional about sound.”

In the Wake of Digital Tribalism, Institutions Are More and More Useless
Online media is accelerating our own pitfalls

Hot Seats: How Furniture Makers Are Catering to Millenials
When customers order a Burrow couch online, the standard model will ship to their apartments in three or four boxes. A human of average size should be able to take those boxes up the stairs (if they have stairs) and build the couch alone, without tools and within minutes.

The Mysterious Case of the Pacific Northwest’s Vengeful Owls
A number of recent bloody encounters with aggressive birds of prey in the Pacific Northwest has frightened residents enough that they’ve started arming themselves with sticks and flashlights and strapping on hard hats before going out at night