Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Glee — remember Glee? — the once enjoyable, then completely baffling, musical comedy about high-school glee club members ends its six-season run Friday, March 20, on Fox at 8 pm Eastern. The show ends with 121 episodes, seemingly every one a little more incoherent than the last. I reviewed the first three seasons of the…
Employees of Amtrak, the publically-funded railroad service, earned themselves a round of bonuses because their agency only lost $214 million last year. A second set of bonuses was scrapped after Amtrak fell far short of its customer satisfaction goals, according to the agency’s inspector general. RELATED: Why we’re not going to get Northeast Corridor high-speed…
When New York City’s cultural czars revealed the choice of a new piece of public art for Long Island City late last year, the response was swift and withering. Residents of the Queens neighborhood and others lit into the proposal — an eight-foot-long reclining human form painted vibrant pink — saying it was too bright,…
Apple calls its Health app “an entirely new way to use your health and fitness information.” But the app doesn’t support tracking one major kind of health information: The menstrual cycle. As Fusion’s Kashmir Hill points out, Apple rolled out an update to Health in iOS 8.2 that promised significant improvements. Unfortunately, those improvements didn’t come…
A year and a half ago, Skye van Merkensteijn was shooting hoops with a friend who lives at the Aldyn, a condominium-rental hybrid on Riverside Boulevard with its own indoor basketball court, climbing wall and bowling alley. Thirteen-year-old Skye was impressed — and envious. Well, his worldly pal told him, he just happened to know…
google_ad_section_start I’ve already written about how to get started with Gulp as well as how to get started with Grunt. They both automate our tasks, they both use Node, and they both require you to create tasks and install plugins of some sort. But do you wonder about the difference between the two, or even,…
I’m trying to find out who gets credit for the headline. Update: It’s Graeme Bruce, “but I kneaded a little help from the newsroom,” he tweets. (h/t Grant Hamilton) * Bread truck rolls over, hundreds of loaves toast (brandonsun.com) * Earlier: Big rig carrying fruit crashes, creates jam (jimromenesko.com) < ?php if( class_exists(‘Add_to_Any_Subscribe_Widget’) ) {…
A shocking amount of what we are reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms. Can you tell the difference? Take the quiz. Did a Human or a Computer Write This? – NYTimes.com.
Ashley Judd, like so many women on the Internet, has faced extreme harassment online. But over the weekend, the actress — who happens to be a well-known University of Kentucky Wildcats fan — was the victim of an even more radical brand of trolling than usual, because she dared to tweet about sports. On Sunday,…
The task of historians in our time is to unbury the buried. For journalists, it is to see that the truth of events is never interred—or at least that enough of it is available for later historians to dig up the whole. The age is impoverished in both respects. Christian Appy, an accomplished historian of…