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Subscribe: iTunes | RSS | Even a digital-first publisher like Salon can have trouble keeping up with the times. Advertisement The site has been unprofitable for most of its history, but in recent years, it has put a stronger focus on tech. That’s thanks to Cindy Jeffers, who in addition to being its CEO is also its chief technical…
If you know your argument that restaurant owners universally revile the idea of an increased minimum wage is complete bullshit, that’s still OK! You can just make shit up, as one of the main restaurant industry lobbyists recently did. Lobbyist-mercenary and aspiring Nazgul Richard Berman recently launched Faces of 15, a shill website devoted to…
Hupso Share Buttons – http://www.hupso.com/share/ Hupso Share Buttons You’ve seen them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook — memes that divide black women up by respectable vs ratchet, heaping praise on the former and disgust on the latter. They dictate how black women should act and mercilessly shame those who don’t fit the mold, concluding…
All photos by the author Chris Gilman made a name for himself as a Hollywood prop designer, specializing in space-related movie props and effects for films like Deep Impact, Star Trek, and Armageddon. His company, Global Effects Inc, became notorious in the industry for their unparalleled ability to manufacture hyperrealistic space suits—the kind that mirrored…
Women: too hard to animate for Assassin’s Creed, but pretty easy to be horrible to With some of the building discussion about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, which will, for the first time, allow you to play as a man and a woman (siblings, we’re told), it occurred to me that there wasn’t…
When Jody Avirgan heard this story about what might just be the city’s longest subway trip you could possibly take without riding the same segment twice, he knew it was his calling. The route was discovered by someone’s browser using the Subwaytron5000 (see below). This is the route we gave him. Hello from Far Rockaway, where I begin my trek…
Illustrator & Graphic Novelist Ashley A. Woods is joining Marvel Comics! The independent comic book creator (one of the artists behind Amandla Stenberg’s upcoming ‘Niobe’ comic) announced her new gig via twitter: “Excited to have my art on the world stage. After Niobe I work w/ Marvel & Rosarium Press”. Take a look out her amazing work below….
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet HUNTING FOR THE END OF THE LONG TAIL • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 Today in Tedium: They say that history is written by the people who win—a standard that translates to wars and land grabs of all types. But it also translates pretty effectively to format wars. Generally,…
Photo At East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue. The sheer number of K2 users has left officers on this block on edge. Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times What happens when you blend into the field better than you imagined you might? This was never an issue for me. I spent most of my career…
An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar. Depending on whom you ask, the use of the active voice over the passive is arguably the most fundamental writer’s maxim, thought to lend weight, truth, and power to declarative statements. This absolutist view is flawed, however, because language is an art of nuance. From time to time, writers…