Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Some time in the middle of Avengers: Age of Ultron, I came to terms with the fact that there will never be any more decent Marvel movies. In fact, there can’t be. Some of what I have to say is going to read as genre snobbery. So let me get this out of the way:…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 If you are a white man and you think you do not own one of these books, try looking under your bed, it’s probably there. 1. Shogun, James Clavell 2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut 3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 4. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace 5. A collection of…
When a retro cartoon/toy property aimed at boys gets the big screen treatment, the studios spend hundreds of millions of dollars bringing that property to life; just look at the budgets for projects like Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Those movies might not be critically loved, or even always loved by the fans…
This image is included in a $7.5 million defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone. U-Va. associate dean Nicole Eramo argues that an image from the Cavalier Daily student newspaper (left) was turned into an illustration in Rolling Stone (right) that portrayed her as villainous. The original image was of her speaking to U-Va. students in a…
Photo Credit Marvel Entertainment In October, Marvel Comics introduced readers to a new hero: a female Thor. Since then, the identity of the woman wielding Thor’s mighty hammer has been a secret. But that ends on Wednesday when issue No. 8 of the Thor series, written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by Russell Dauterman, goes…
When asked what he’d wished he’d known before starting up, Neil Patel, co-founder of Web analytics start-up Crazy Egg, answered: “I wish I knew how to price test. When we first released the product we based pricing based off of what we wanted to charge, versus optimizing price to achieve maximum revenue and profitability.” Chances…
For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men – 1.5 million of them – are, in a sense, missing. Among cities with sizable black populations, the largest single gap is in Ferguson, Mo. North Charleston, S.C., has a gap larger than 75 percent of cities. This…
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WILMINGTON, Del., May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Rigrodsky & Long, P.A.: Do you own shares of AOL Inc. (NYSE:AOL)? Did you purchase any of your shares prior to May 12, 2015? Do you think the proposed buyout price is too low? Do you want to discuss your rights? Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. announces that it is…
According to numerous sources, while it has been negotiating its deal to sell to Verizon, AOL has also been in advanced discussions with a number of parties to spin off its flagship Huffington Post content unit. The talks have been most serious with Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate, but a number of private equity…