Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Wow. You thought you were done with new Star Wars trailers after the recent, amazing one we just had? Think again. Disney has released an international cut of the trailer—one that is packed with new shots and dialogue. http://io9.com/secrets-are-re… The trailer, which you can see below, follows a similar thematic path as the recent teaser,…
Lisa-Marie Saunders 1 day ago Most of these are horrible, cruel & verging on animal abuse. Yes, some of ‘us’ may find them funny, but there are a number of pictures where the cat must have been ‘assisted’ into the position & are clearly terrified. Not funny, not funny at all. 20+ Cats Who Immediately…
The mayor joined elected and city officials and the developers for a ceremonial dirt toss at the Beach Channel Senior Apartments site. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Katie Honan FAR ROCKAWAY — More than two thirds of the new affordable housing planned for Queens will be built on the Rockaway peninsula, a flood zone still…
I can’t even. I’ve been tracking misogynistic ridiculousness on this blog for five years, but I’m not sure I ‘ve ever run across anything quite as ridiculous as this. A prominent Open Source guru, Eric Raymond, is warning tech dudes to be extra super duper careful around their female colleagues, because any one of them…
By writing this, I don’t mean to imply that many people call me beautiful. They don’t. And I’m not saying this because I would like them to. As the title suggests, I would rather they not. Why? Because if we were all to be very honest with ourselves, we would admit that I’m not beautiful…
There have been hundreds of thousands of words written on ESPN closing Grantland, but most of them have missed the largest issue — the site was losing money. With a staff somewhere between 42 and 54 people Grantland produced, according to James Miller’s Vanity Fair piece, somewhere in the neighborhood of $6 million a year…
Pants or skirt, this room is available to whoever needs it. Photo by James Knopf/Thinkstock Houston voters repealed an anti-discrimination ordinance on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in part because, as the New York Times observed, “Opponents said the measure would allow men claiming to be women to enter women’s bathrooms and inflict harm, and that…
People in other industries don’t provide their would-be clients with “spec work” for free. That would be asinine. So, why do advertising agencies continue to do it? break It’s not a new question. (This Adweek story from August was just the latest assessment of a practice that goes back decades.) But Toronto agency Zulu Alpha…
The “Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” has certainly gotten more political lately and Wednesday had comedian Aziz Ansari on playing Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal. The hair was spot on. The shiny brown locks perfectly combed to the side captured the perfect Jindal in front of a bank of bookcases. And fake Bobby was excited….
Stephen Colbert has Donald Trump’s new book, and he’s not afraid to use it. Wednesday evening on the “Late Show” the comedian was eager to talk about the way that Trump puts the country in such high regard with his new book Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again. “Crippled America is just a…