Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It’s 2015, and we finally have female action figures to play with. Only they look like this. To answer @slashwhatever, the person on Twitter asking, “Am I the only one that thinks this is a little fucked up?” I’d say no, sir, you definitely are not. Hideo Kojima’s upcoming Metal Gear Solid V will feature the…
Two magicians shall appear in England… via ▶ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Launch Trailer – BBC One – YouTube.
New Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell trailer! – Hello, Tailor.
When he joined Vocativ, Gittrich told Poynter he planned to grow the newsroom between 25 and 30 percent this year; he later announced that expansion would be focused around coverage of national security, technology, gender, culture, criminal justice and real-time news. Capital New York reported in February that Vocativ laid off about eight staffers in…
/post details post thumbnail /post thumbnail Google is great. It tells you what those mysterious little things on the end of shoelaces are called, it’s been in happy-go-lucky movies with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, and it even entertains you with inventive takes on old arcade games. But, much like those people who seem way too enthusiastic about pressed…
The miniature wargame play celebrated in the War Game Digest could reach only a limited audience because it required painstaking efforts from dedicated and artisanal adults. Avalon Hill’s board wargames, on the other hand, could reasonably aspire to reach the mass market. They built on the recognized tradition of juvenile board games, but with a…
How roleplaying games and fantasy fiction confounded the FBI, confronted the law, and led to a more open web On January 17, 1980, FBI agents descended on a small business in Wisconsin to investigate a plot against the life of an American business executive in Beirut, Lebanon, named William Weatherby. The tip came to local…
As we’ve learned through the course of the month, David Letterman’s departure means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For Americana musicians, it means saying goodbye to one of the genre’s biggest champions. For POTUS, it means losing an “escape” after a long day at work. And for the 20-time visitor…
View this image › Joss Whedon at an event for Avengers: Age Of Ultron in Seoul, South Korea, on April 17, 2015. Ahn Young-joon / AP When filmmaker Joss Whedon decided to delete his Twitter account on Monday, the day after his movie Avengers: Age of Ultron scored the second-highest domestic opening weekend ever, it…
by Zack Ford Posted on May 8, 2015 at 10:27 am “‘Hecklers’ Veto’ Fails To Block Transgender Protections In Country’s 10th Largest School District” CREDIT: Twitter/InsideNOVA/Jill Palermo Thursday night, the Fairfax County School Board, which oversees Virginia’s largest school system — and the tenth largest in the country — voted 10-1 with one abstention to…