Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If they showed up in your Instagram stream, micahnotfound’s photos wouldn’t look like anything spectacular. They’d look cool of course — bright colors, collages, paper cutouts, and pop culture references galore — but they wouldn’t look amazing. That’s because the photos are meant to be viewed from the artist’s profile, all at once. It’s one big…
Taylor Swift has just posted an open letter to Apple entitled “To Apple, Love Taylor” explaining why she’s holding back her latest album, 1989, from the new Apple Music streaming service. The problem, Swift says, is that for the three month free trial period every consumer gets, Apple won’t be paying artists for those streams. Swift…
The sneaky designers at Beats by Dre employ a clever trick to make you think that the company’s plastic headphones are durable products worth the premium price. Beats by Dre headphones are garbage. Besides their crappy sound, they’re basically designed to break. And yet they sell millions of pairs of headphones. It’s practically a perfect…
Now that Dylann Roof is in custody and has been charged with nine counts of murder, the question is: how will he plead? The speculation in days following in the massacre is that Roof will plead like fellow mass shooter James Holmes did and claim not guilty by reason of insanity. That scenario seems much…
.entry-header After watching Jon Stewart’s on-point and poignant words regarding the tragic shooting at the AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, (watch it here before you continue reading!) I was curious about his statement that “the roads [in South Carolina] are named for Confederate generals.” I wanted to see the prevalence of Confederate Generals’ names…
Batman Begins, arguably the first truly great Batman movie since 1989, turns 10 today. When it was released in the summer of 2005, it wasn’t the only superhero movie on the block, but it was by far the best, and the impact it had continues to reverberate to this very day. We wouldn’t have Christian…
The Deus Ex series deals with a number of weighty themes, and the first game in the rebooted series is going to inform the story of the upcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. What happens when some people have these augmentations, and the rest don’t? How much tension will that cause in our society? There was…
The manifesto of mass murderer Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old South Carolina man who attacked Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last week and killed nine African-American congregants, has been discovered online by Twitter users Emma Quangel and Henry Krinkle. The manifesto, found on a website titled “Last Rhodesian,” contained both a rambling text file describing Roof’s ideology…
Dylann Storm Roof is a domestic terrorist. He is a 21-year-old White supremacist. He has made it as clear as possible that he hates Black people. He went into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of our nation’s oldest Black churches, in Charleston, South Carolina, armed with a loaded gun and said to the congregants:…
SourcepointBen Barokas, Sourcepoint co-founder and CEO. Ad blocker use is on the rise. More and more ways of letting people block ads are being introduced to market. Apple, for instance, will allow ad blocking on iPhones, and there is a mobile phone service carrier plan to allow ad blocking across entire networks. Ad blocking poses an…