Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
An officer pulls someone over on the side of the highway. The cop sits in the car a moment, runs the plates—they’re fine—and gets out of the car. As he or she approach the driver’s side window, the driver pulls out a gun, shoots the officer, and flees. This is something close to what happened…
Go into any house in England and you will be offered some tea. Barge in. Just walk in to a nana’s house. “Oh, sorry,” the nana will say. “Can I get you a cup of tea?” The nana will walk slowly to the kitchen. She will boil a fresh kettle of water and warm a…
Release Date: May 27, 2015 sDate For release at 12:00 p.m. EDT The Federal Reserve Board’s latest survey of the financial and economic conditions of American households released Wednesday finds that individuals’ overall perceptions of financial well-being improved modestly between 2013 and 2014 but their optimism about future financial prospects increased significantly. The 2014 Survey…
It’s an annual moment of print realism here at Nieman Lab: The posting of the attention slide from Mary Meeker’s state-of-the-Internet slide deck. It’s enough of a tradition that I can now copy-and-paste from multiple versions of this post. Here’s a sentence from the 2013 version: For those who don’t know it, Meeker — formerly…
SPOILER WARNING: The following article discusses events from “Convergence” #8, written by Jeff King and Scott Lobdell and featuring numerous artists, on sale now. While many fans expected the end result of DC Comics‘ just-concluded “Convergence” event to be a streamlined, non-multiversal DC Universe, the events of Issue #8, which arrived in stores today, have…
The naming convention for the majority of the people in my country is the paradigm case and nobody really does anything differently. Names are all representable in US ASCII. Unicode has properly solved the problem of language encoding. Gender is immutable and fits cleanly into an enumerated list of two options. A person’s legal…
Photo FIFA, a multibillion-dollar organization that governs soccer but has been plagued by accusations of bribery for decades, had several top officials arrested early Wednesday. Credit Fabrice Coffrini/AFP — Getty Images As FIFA leaders gathered for a meeting in Zurich on Wednesday, Swiss law enforcement officials arrived at the five-star Baur au Lac hotel unannounced…
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Angela Burnes left Baltimore in 1972 looking for freedom. Things would be different in Latin America, she thought. They had to be. But the main character of Sunset quickly finds herself trapped in a country torn apart by civil war. Can doing chores for a rich man help her tear down a military coup? Should…
Photo Mayor Bill de Blasio presented his housing plan in Brooklyn on Monday. Credit Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times New York City will commit $8.2 billion in public funds to a 10-year housing plan that could transform the cityscape from Cypress Hills in Brooklyn to the shores of the Harlem River, while providing affordable homes…