Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Darth Vader is many things—tragic villain, almighty horror, dab hand with a lightsaber—but he is not a dancer. Thanks the the Darth Vader Annual, we now know that this is what happens when you’re stupid enough to insist that the Dark Lord of the Sith take you for a twirl on the dance floor. Minor…
For many people, Quentin Tarantino’s legacy rests chiefly on his unique dialogue style and cultural references—but thinking of him as a writer and pastiche master sells his films short. In truth, QT has the visual dexterity to create some of the most memorable film images of the past 25 years. Each of his films contains brilliant camerawork, from…
There is no shortage of cool stuff to see on the Internet, but the Internet itself—the networks and servers and cables tying it all together—is pretty mundane. Peter Garritano discovered as much when he went behind the scenes at some of New York’s big Internet hubs to see how it all works. Garritano always knew the…
Despite the existence of WP_Error and all the pieces required, there is no single “WordPress Way” to handle and display errors. You can indicate an error occurred in a function or method by returning the WP_Error object (and that’s been my usual MO in my work), but once we do, how do we handle these…
AP It appears all three women who were tricked into marrying ambulatory man-wig Donald Trump were born without urethras, because America’s next president thinks it’s pretty gross that females have to purge their food waste somehow. Last night, Trump said presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a ladies’ restroom at this weekend’s Democratic…
(Facebook) A woman stepped through some shrubbery, climbed a ledge, and jumped to her death during a party on the roof of the 230 Fifth restaurant and lounge in the Flatiron District. An NYPD spokesman said the woman, 30, “entered the establishment, went to the ledge of building, and jumped from 20th floor.” It’s…
Luxury real estate firms in New York City make a lot of money helping wealthy foreigners exploit the state’s tax lawsnow some firms overseas want to share in the joy of being richly rewarded middlemen. The Times reports that real estate companies from Germany and London are expanding here to explicitly target New York’s “ever-expanding…
Earlier this month, a food blogger published a four part series accusing the Mast Brothers of falsely claiming that their overpriced chocolate has always been made from scratch. The hipster, bearded chocolatiers claimed their chocolate was “bean to bar” but chocolate experts claimed “If you were to ask the world’s top chocolate reviewers to rate…
A white Jacksonville, Fla., woman faces five years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to a federal officer about whether she’d placed an image of a Confederate flag on a black co-worker’s desk. Susan Thompson and the co-worker were federal workers at the Jacksonville office of the Army Corps of Engineers, according to Newsweek….
A British Muslim family heading for Disneyland was barred from boarding a flight to Los Angeles by US authorities at London’s Gatwick airport amid concerns of an American overreaction to the perceived terrorist threat. US Department of Homeland Security officials provided no explanation for why the country refused to allow the family of 11 to…