Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
By Jaya Saxena on May 31st, 2015 Cards Against Humanity, before it became go-to entertainment for a generation raised on the Internet and saddled with a backward idea of political correctness, began as a crowdsourced, printable game created by a group of old high school friends. A 2011 Kickstarter campaign produced the actual cards. In…
Entry Text Living in America has taught Matt Taibbi that we as a society have “a profound hatred of the weak and the poor.” That’s one claim the former Rolling Stone writer makes in his new book, “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.” Taibbi defended this statement in a HuffPost…
Last night, as we took the train back from a friend’s birthday outing, a young man got on the train who instantly put me on alert. For a while, I tried to figure out what it was – his oddly clenched jaw, the sly look of his narrowed eyes (or were those just his eyes?),…
I know our Raphael Orlove loves cars. I know they affect him in ways even I sometimes struggle to understand. So when I sent him to The Quail – a place where you’ll see four Ferrari F50s just hanging out – I knew he’d react. I just didn’t expect this to happen. At the very…
Right now, we’re falling in love with BB-8 from Star Wars—and yet, there’s still a special place in our hearts for Johnny Five, the robot from the Short Circuit films. But how much do you actually know about these films? Check out this video, featuring 16 electrifying facts about the making of this duology. 1)…
Job Description The MLA is seeking a Senior Web Developer to provide leadership, creative problem solving, and technical expertise across our roster of Web-based publications and applications. Skills & Requirements You are: Passionate about open-source software. We maintain several open-source software products, including the WordPress-based MLA Commons and Commons-in-a-Box. Committing back upstream is a…
Former Ohio resident John Felton was pulled over by Dayton police in front of his mom’s house after he allegedly activated his turn signal less than 100 feet before making a right turn. Unable to believe an officer would stop him on such a piddling technicality, Felton asked the officer why he was really followed…
It took a century, but the message finally reached its destination. Marianne Winkler, a retired post office worker, discovered a peculiar bottle in April while vacationing with her husband on Amrum Island in Germany. Inside the dusty glass tube was a piece of paper with the words “Break the bottle,” inscribed in bold red type according…
New concept art reveals that the battle lines have been drawn. Do we now know which super-powered fists will be smashing into which photogenic jaws during Captain America: Civil War? Sure, ever since Robert Downey Jr. joined the cast of Captain America 3, we’ve known that Tony Stark and Steve Rogers would come to blows….
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s injunction against the National Security Agency’s program to collect records on billions of telephone calls to, from and within the United States in an effort to seek out terrorist plots. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit splintered on the…