Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata Who the hell knows what is really happening at Gawker, and who the hell cares? Answer: Gawker and Gawker. Which is the interesting thing to me about all of this, the way a story about Gawker has, primarily, been reported on Gawker. And without Gawker leaking internal Gawker memos to…
Yenli Wong (Photo Credit: Steve Rosenfield) A neighbor overheard Vanessa and her boyfriend shouting and the sound of something — her body, it turns out — hitting the dorm room wall one night in May 2014. The neighbor reported the fight to a residential assistant, who then reported it to Columbia University officials. As a…
When Ray McEnaney types, he’s confident it’s the most efficient way possible. But it’s not typing school that’s given him this feeling. It’s his keyboard. Frustrated with the limitations of the traditional QWERTY layout, McEnaney spent the last decade designing a new one. Considering that the universal key arrangement was designed in the typewriter age…
The worst of Silicon Valley is the same, just flipped over and dipped into darkness. Listen, can you hear it? It is the sound of some other company as it hockey-sticks across graphs. It is a rags-to-riches story of a group of hardworking dreamers. It is one elite list after another, ranking everything from creativity…
13 Small Things That Will Make A Man Love You Forever And Ever Men are a mystery, like who built the pyramids? No one knows. What would happen if you got your man flowers or wrote him a love letter? No one knows. So don’t do it (but men, if you’re reading this, please buy…
Photo Mourners at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., in June after nine people were killed there. The killings generated a national outpouring of outrage and grief. Credit Travis Dove for The New York Times Seven years ago, in the gauzy afterglow of a stirring election night in Chicago, commentators dared ask whether the United…
Welcome to the age of hackable automobiles, when two security researchers can cause a 1.4 million product recall. On Friday, Chrysler announced that it’s issuing a formal recall for 1.4 million vehicles that may be affected by a hackable software vulnerability in Chrysler’s Uconnect dashboard computers. The vulnerability was first demonstrated to WIRED by security…
I have had so many conversations or email exchanges with students in the last few years wherein I anger them by indicating that simply saying, “This is my opinion” does not preclude a connected statement from being dead wrong. It still baffles me that some feel those four words somehow give them carte blanche to…
Actor Derek Luke‘s online followers became concerned with the race of his wife recently, and he’s not having it. Luke, 41, addressed the issue via Instagram after he noticed some comments on one of his social media accounts concerned with the fact that his wife is not Black. He has been married to actress Sophia Adella…
Sonic the Hedgehog’s current animated series, Sonic Boom, ventured into bizarre territory for about three seconds during an episode that aired in the U.S. this week. A brief live-action moment in the otherwise computer-animated cartoon is either a just a pretty good gag… or a shocking reveal about the strange nature of the Cartoon Network show….