Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Way, the WIRED headline began. Sure, I’ll go with that. It continued, Can Skateboarding Legend Rodney Mullen Help It? And there it is: the idea that skate culture could energize a languid tech world. Is skateboarding the EpiPen the Valley needs? No. Please no. Not now. The last time skateboarding was a…
‘The ‘beer-as-backdrop’ phenomenon is why it’s important for tap beers to be sessionable and relatively inexpensive.’ Photograph: AAP Is the craft beer “revolution” over yet? For the past four or five years I’ve been plaintively asking this question in the same tone as a toddler in the back seat. Now it seems that every time…
Shot of a reporter ready to conduct an interview on the street | PeopleImages.com via Getty Images Entry Text We’re back with your daily dose of depressing journalism news: unemployment rates are dropping for nearly all college majors, with the notable exception of journalism students.A new study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the…
Coffee is one of life’s rarest pleasures: a delicious drug that’s also good for you. When scientists study the long-term health effects of coffee drinking, they find that, on the whole, the apparent benefits (such as a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes) outweigh the costs (like a heightened risk of certain…
They’re even artificially scented to smell like fresh-cut grass or wildflowers. Surely one of many who cannot wait to eat their cups. Photo: Courtesy of KFC For its latest food-that-probably-shouldn’t-actually-exist, KFC has gone beyond Double Downs and instead created edible coffee cups. (The gimmick is timed to the launch of Seattle’s Best at all of…
A video appeared recently that that reawakened fears about Gamergate. It caused game developer Brianna Wu to file a restraining order against the man in the video. It was also a factor in her reasoning to pull her company, Giant Spacekat, out of gaming festival PAX East, fearing for her employees’ safety. It scared Wu, it scared other female developers…
close media-action-overlay The Man Who Was Spock Leonard Nimoy, best known for playing the character Spock in the Star Trek television shows and films, died at 83. Video by Robin Lindsay on Publish Date February 27, 2015. Photo by NBC, via Photofest. Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as…
cache hit 1091:single/related:5f5a4fba033d6dae2cb3fb65e384b257 empty Verizon is just so mad at the Federal Communications Commission today that a normal press release wouldn’t do.After all, Verizon issues so many press releases denouncing the FCC for trying to regulate telecommunications that today’s vote on net neutrality required a special one to make sure it would be remembered. So Verizon wrote…
You can take our poll here. So far, about three-quarters of respondents see white and gold. But why are people seeing such wildly different colors? First off, it’s not monitor settings. (My husband and I looked at the same monitor and saw different colors.) It’s probably not about the cells in your eyes. Our retinas…
By now, you would have had at least 146 people on your Facebook or Twitter shove this photo into your feed, asking you what colour this dress is. The photo came from a Tumblr post: ‘guys please help me – is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can’t agree…