Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Get ready for a serious Geeksgiving celebration. The Raspberry Pi Foundation today announced its latest wonder: The ultra-low-cost Raspberry Pi Zero. At $5 per unit, it may rank as the world’s cheapest computer. The Pi Zero goes on sale today, and the foundation is expecting a swell of orders, so it’s limiting each order to one or…
Nov. 20, 2015 8:17 p.m. ET In the wake of the Paris attacks and a terrorist video showing images of Times Square, some schools have canceled field trips to New York City, even as officials insist the city is safe. Schools in New Jersey, Long Island and Maryland this week abandoned plans to visit Manhattan,…
How to destroy an American family The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it. By Aaron Sankin and William Turton “Mom is dead, and they did it.” An emergency dispatcher hears this message just before 4am on a Thursday morning. It’s been rendered anonymous by a…
As we mentioned yesterday, Dawkins has been on a racist tear lately. One of his most batshit tweets fights the tyranny of cultural appropriation — meaning the people criticizing cultural appropriation are tyrannical, not the other way around. I know. Stay with me. The meme assumes that without Europeans, life would be a living…
(Adds Reuters source, statement from Comcast, analyst comment) Nov 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Comcast Corp, the biggest U.S. cable TV provider, is hindering competition in cable advertising sales, a source told Reuters. The department’s Antitrust Division has sent documents known as civil investigative demands to…
Earlier this year, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted out support for fast-food workers striking for better wages, writing that they “shouldn’t have to march in the streets for living wages.” Two days earlier, Clinton had stopped at a Chipotle located in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio. The event was covered in obsessive detail, as…
“Late Night” host Seth Meyers was on fire Tuesday night when he lit up Donald Trump for spending the weekend lying to justify his racism and Islamophobia. Trump swears that he saw Muslims in New Jersey celebrating on 9/11, a claim that Meyers says has been universally debunked. “But even when he was confronted about…
Here’s an interesting factoid about contemporary policing: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did. Martin Armstrong pointed this out at his blog, Armstrong Economics, last week. Officers can take cash and property from people without convicting or even charging them with a crime —…
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The storyline’s over, and now that it is, I wanted to talk a little about it. But, you know, in a general storywriting sense versus yesterday’s stroll down awful childhood memory lane. I’d written previously how, years ago, before Becky had been reintroduced into the strip as a main character, I knew Becky couldn’t be…