With respect, admiration and gratitude for those who serve, we humbly submit this week’s choicest URLS…

• First and foremost, Google for Veterans is a functional tribute to the folks in uniform
• A different kind of hero, Andy Rooney, passes
• Passing 26.2 miles and recording it all, old school
• Sesame Street is old school, but it taught us how to ask our friends for help
• Texting helps us do it smarter, and with fewer characters
• It’s no surprise, then, that the invention of SMS is one of the greatest light-bulb moments
• Also pretty great: ye olde infographics — even Mr. Tufte approves
• We approve of Amazon’s lending library; publishers, not so much
• Maybe they could make money with a hair-as-mustache book