Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Stephanie Burns came up with the idea for Chic CEO, a free online platform for female entrepreneurs, in 2008, when she was getting her MBA. Many of her friends had lost jobs in the recession and were asking her for tips on how to start their own businesses. After hosting about 15 friends at…
On her first day shooting her first feature, Zoë Kravitz wasn’t allowed to work. Cast as a goth babysitter in the Catherine Zeta-Jones romcom No Reservations, the teenager couldn’t go on set until her designated guardian had signed in. But Lenny Kravitz was running late, and when he eventually arrived, the rock star caused such…
I woke up at 4am the morning after Thanksgiving in 2014. I had been staying the night at my friends Liz and Rob’s house after imbibing what can only be called a festive amount of alcohol. The couch, comfortable as it was when I settled in to sleep, was a nightmare to wake up in…
Few West Wing characters are as loved as President Jed Bartlet, Martin Sheen’s folksy, Nobel Prize-winning commander-in-chief. Bartlet’s charm is partly rooted in his many quirks of personality—his professorial air, his lofty quotation of the Bible, his tendency to pepper staff with impromptu tests of erudition. Another, more subtle character trait is the way the…
Although it sounds like a perfect Onion headline, this guy appears to have really celebrated a bachelor party all by himself after his friends’ flights were canceled. Robert Chernow took to Instagram to document his trip to Chicago where he partook in many fun opportunities to bro out, even though his bros were nowhere to be found….
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A handful of people saw a ghost during Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ performance during last Sunday’s broadcast of the VMAs. Following Macklemore’s moped-centric first verse to “Downtown,” who looked and sounded strikingly like Queen’s Freddie Mercury appeared in frame. The singer was Eric Nally of on-hiatus Foxy Shazam, but Twitter only saw the miraculous Mercury: Who…
3 Month Internet Reading Stats Internet reading goals vs accomplished stats for the last three months: Stories Read / Stories Queued To Read August: 438 / 536 ( 81% completed ) July: 493 / 544 ( 90% completed ) June: 400 / 546 ( 73% completed ) Notes: not all stories read made it to…
Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for programmers, recently came out with its 2015 developer survey. With responses from more than 26,000 people in 157 countries, Stack Overflow was able to pinpoint some interesting trends in tech and how they vary regionally, painting a picture of the life of a programmer today around the world. US…
(Facebook) In late August, Shannon Neuman and her husband Chris went to the municipal court in Calgary, Alberta, to get a divorce. They had already filled out the forms and taken the requisite seminars. They navigated the 24-story Courts Centre and dropped their papers off. Then, on their way out, Chris and Shannon — no…