Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you’re a fan of good television, you know Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development. If you’re a fan of bad politics, you know Donald Trump. These two seem to have a lot in common. Who Said It: Donald Trump Or Lucille Bluth.
Google and Twitter are working together to help publishers show “instant articles” to people who use their services on mobile phones. The plan, which is supposed to launch with a small group of publishers this fall, is an effort to make it easier for publishers to distribute their stuff on mobile devices. It is also a response to similar…
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Yesterday, Vox published a first-person essay detailing the anachronistic existence of two insufferably twee hipsters who live as if they were insufferably twee 19th-century urban gentry. Fuck these people. Please read the article first, but in summary: Two assholes decided to live like extras in The Knick, and defend themselves against their haters by espousing…
My husband and I study history, specifically the late Victorian era of the 1880s and ’90s. Our methods are quite different from those of academics. Everything in our daily life is connected to our period of study, from the technologies we use to the ways we interact with the world. Five years ago we bought…
This is a short video made to promote tomorrow’s release of Super Mario Maker in which Shigeru Miyamoto discusses some of the Super Mario franchise’s myths. Although he doesn’t actually do too much discussing, he mostly just shakes or nods his head, which is exactly how I like to discuss things too. He does confirm…
Watch More HISHEs: https://bit.ly/HISHEPlaylist Subscribe to HISHE: https://bit.ly/HISHEsubscribe In response to the Batman V Superman trailers, Batman sings about how they now have BAT BLOOD. This video was made to say thank you. HISHE turned 10 years old this year. Isn’t that insane?! 10! And we could never have made it this far if you…
Never ever ask Serena Williams why she isn’t smiling. NEVER. Al Bello / Getty Images Really, don’t ask anyone why they aren’t smiling. Some people just don’t want to smile! A reporter got the answer he deserved when he asked Serena, “What’s wrong?” Facebook: Squintz83 / BuzzFeed And for a split second you can see Serena…
START “AMERICAN DREAMS BUG” BOX v. 1 END “AMERICAN DREAMS BUG” BOX v. 1 Three years ago, my wife, Anne-Marie Slaughter, wrote in these pages about how difficult it remains for women to “have it all”—a family and a career. She’d recently left a high-powered job in Washington, D.C., to return to our home in…
“Let me just say up front: I hope that this conversation can be as much about humanity and dignity as it is about politics and polling, because I want to try to better understand to the extent that I can…the motivation behind your rhetoric and that of Donald Trump and some others,” is how Tavis…