Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The awesome (and scary) thing about being a writer is that you can always improve. It’s why people can sit on a draft for weeks — every time they take “one more look,” they can find a way to make it better. While it’s definitely a fun challenge to see how long you can keep…
PRE-GAME SHOW: Welcome, readers, welcome. In just a few short minutes, I, Your Fearless News Editor, will be tuning into Fox News’ “The Kelly File” for the first time in my life. Once there, I will bear witness to the first big stop on the Duggar family’s Please Don’t Stop Loving Us and Cancel Our…
Megyn Kelly breaks the news Jim Bob: “After that third time he came to us is where we really felt like, we have done everything we can as parents…We need to get help.” — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 4, 2015 “Michelle and I both were keeping an eye on Josh all the time and watching…
New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t tweet a whole lot. He made an exception after hedge fund billionaire and financial crisis profiteer John Paulson’s ludicrous $400 million donation to Harvard, which is naming its engineering school after him in exchange. It came down to helping the poor or giving the world’s richest university $400…
Furthering Microsoft’s push to support open source, the company has announced that it plans to add Secure Shell (SSH) support to Windows in the future. SSH is a protocol that allows users to access the command line of remote computers. The team behind Powershell, Microsoft’s shell environment, said that it’s been working to add SSH…
Katherine Chappell, a visual effects editor who worked on Game Of Thrones and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, among other projects, has died. She was 29. What makes the story so unusual is that Chappell was killed by a lion while vacationing in South Africa. According to Variety, she was visiting Johannesburg’s Lion Park earlier…
by Jessica Goldstein Posted on June 3, 2015 at 10:03 am “Cameron Crowe Responds To Accusations Of Whitewashing In ‘Aloha’” CREDIT: Columbia Pictures/Allstar Cameron Crowe’s Aloha, has not been received well by the filmgoing public. Is this because Crowe made a really lousy movie? Well, he did, but the real outcry here is about a…
Jamie Dimon, who has overseen both a large increase in the stock price of JPMorgan Chase and the bank’s transition into a criminal enterprise, is now officially a billionaire. We wish him all of the future success that he deserves. Gawker.
Peak startup: HidrateMe is a “smart” water bottle that tells you how much water you’ve had and also glows when it is time for you to drink more water. No longer shall you be forced to constantly pass out from dehydration due to the fact that you didn’t know when it was time to drink…
I bet that, for most of you, nothing would feel weirder than having your dad or brother tell you he’s now a woman. And for a certain percentage of people, the reaction to that news would be violent. The reality is that the entire concept of transgender people makes folks very uncomfortable, which means we’re…