Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
When you picture the CEO of a major company, you think tact, professionalism, and intelligence. Sure, you occasionally get someone who’s eccentric for the sake of being eccentric, but most of the time you can expect that someone with enough level-headedness to run a company will be of relatively sound mind all around. In the…
John Oliver announced on Sunday that Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, the official megachurch of Last Week Tonight, will have to close because they were receiving too much semen in the mail. Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was founded in a brilliant segment on televangelists, who trick followers into sending them “seeds”—i.e. monetary donations—that they’re…
♥ Yes, but has Skrillex put this as a setting on his blender yet? ♥ Not for nothing, the generator is pretty relaxing. I started using the website for ambient sound to keep me from getting stressed at work. Also, what’s cool is when you shift the different controls, the purr begins to sound almost…
Last week, Julia Greenberg from Wired wrote an interesting story titled “All Those Mobile News Alerts Are Getting On Your Nerves”: Mobile news alerts are becoming the norm. … Many of you hate them so much so that you’ve turned all alerts off. But even if you do get them, you don’t really like them….
Photo Credit Kyle Platts “WERE you in the Army or something?” a tall kid in khakis and a polo shirt asked as I refilled my Solo cup for the fifth time that night. “You look old for an undergrad.” It was day two of rush week, and this was my 10th party. So far I’d…
In the center of the lab, CHIMP stretched out one huge arm, then gracefully unfurled its three metal fingers, as if about to beckon someone. On its head, two rapidly rotating laser scanners enabled it to monitor its surroundings, but the engineers standing nearby were wary nonetheless. If the robot — a five-foot-tall, crimson-colored humanoid…
Cuomo announced the push during an event in New York City with Joe Biden. Updated Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that he will be pushing to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. The announcement accompanied word from the governor that the state Department of Labor has accepted the wage board recommendation that the…
It seems like everyone’s talking about that woman who fired up her Difference Engine and keyed in a long, self-satisfied story about how she and her husband live like it’s 1880. That’s fine by me. But, while reading more about them, I found references to a “truck.” That just won’t do. But I’m not here…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 There’s no running from worldbuilding anymore. A tidbit of information about The Hunger Games films or “Game of Thrones” leaks, provoking fans and news outlets alike into a frenzy. Entire wikis are meticulously curated for each series, every line and scene analyzed for maximum informative potential. The ability to craft an expansive…
Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 HROTHGAR: ah, Beowulf welcome to Heorot and the land of my people we have heard of your deeds from across the sea BEOWULF: yeah it’s no big deal I pretty much swam here UNFERTH: Is’t so? I heard you were bested by Breca in a swimming contest not three w– BEOWULF:…