Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
CM: I’m thinking about the evolution of the product, and there were a few years where you laid low. LF: The ’90s into early 2000s we were a pretty big company. Then I went through a divorce. CM: That type of situation helps sometimes. LF: Right, because of the demand. CM: You became something that…
Rebekah Marine, a model with an i-limb quantum prosthetic hand, will walk in New York Fashion Week on Sept. 13 in the FTL Moda show. The 28-year-old was born without a right forearm. She was told at a young age that she wouldn’t have a future in modeling. She quickly gave up the idea, went…
Meet Kermit the Frog’s new girlfriend, Denise. Presenting Denise: Kermit the Frog’s new pig pal. Image: ABC/Andrea McCallin As first hinted in the early trailers and sneak peeks at ABC’s upcoming comedy, The Muppets, she’s the one whose filling the pig-sized hole in Kermit’s heart following his split with Miss Piggy. Piggy and Kermit confirmed…
Black Jesus is dead. Yesterday, the Washington Redskins named backup quarterback Kirk Cousins the starter over Robert Griffin III, finally confirming what Washington fans have felt for weeks and months and years: RGIII’s time in the nation’s capital is up. Barring a unfortunate occurrence, or a few, the QB for whom Dan Snyder mortgaged three…
Kanye West accepts the Video Vanguard Award at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, California, August 30, 2015. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni On Sunday night, Kanye West got a five-year jump on the next presidential election. “I have decided in 2020 to run for president,” he said, after accepting a lifetime achievement prize at the…
Adblockers and the fracking of data An inconvenient truth about digital content I’ve decided to test a Safari Adblocker extension in private beta directly with the Princeton student who’s developing it. I’m doing it for science and sharing my findings to encourage more public discourse about why the trust between content consumers and producers is…
(Bigstock) A Pittsburgh woman has been convicted and fined $300 for, well, it isn’t exactly clear. A North Side woman interfered with official police duties April 25 when she watched an arrest in her neighborhood and didn’t leave the scene when asked, a district judge ruled Thursday. Kimberly Bracken, 30, was fined $300 by Judge…
To: scocca@gawker.com From: matt mcewen <REDACTED@gmail.com> Subject: Hey, cool article about nothing. “Here is an “article” I will “write” that is somebody elses opinion of an authors “writing”. I’ll maybe say a sentence or two after their opinion, and then my Gawker “article” for the day will be done and I can check that off…
(David Richard/AP) The story behind the funniest e-mail Hillary Clinton has ever sent By Roberto A. Ferdman September 1 at 12:25 AM While combing through the most recent Hillary Clinton e-mail dump, a certain, seemingly non-political, but potentially highly controversial message stands out. The e-mail was sent to both Jake Sullivan, one of her top advisers,…
It is a truism to say that relationship is hard to maintain. It might be even more difficult when the Atlantic Ocean separates them. But thanks to internet and those big data companies that feed themselves with our personal informations, we can now have a real relationship even with 5,500 km between us. Real in…