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Photo An illustration by Molly Crabapple of herself (center) and friends Sarah Jaffe (left) and Laurie Penny during the Occupy Wall Street movement. Credit Courtesy of the artist and Harper Collins Photo Crabapple. Credit Clayton Cubitt Molly Crabapple made her name in 2005 as the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School — a sketching club…
Roosevelt. Love it or hate it, the name resonates in American history. It means the rough-riding 26th president who guided the country at the start of the 20th century. It means the patrician 32nd president who led it through the Great Depression and World War II. It means the influential first lady — a Roosevelt…
Imagine, for a second, that you work for the U.S. or European branch of Konami. It’s a cool job—you get to handle marketing, social media, or maybe business relations for a big company that publishes some cool games. Until suddenly you find yourself entangled in one of the worst PR disasters in video game history….
The Notorious B.I.G.‘s Life After Death is one of the greatest rap albums of all-time, and it’s likely that when the asteroid that wipes out our civilization finally hits, it’ll be remembered by future generations as a landmark in American music. Likewise, the first Star Wars film will always be remembered as one of the…
Once you’re down so low that you’re homeless, can you rise back up? A Seattle homeless man is amazingly getting $100,000 job offers for his technology expertise, but still is struggling to get out. When I first meet James Simmons, he’s at the state welfare office trying to get some more food stamps. He survives…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Looks like IBM needs to reengineer what it thinks about women. A tweet went out on IBM’s official Twitter feed asking women in tech to, I kid you not, “Join the #HackAHairDryer experiment.” Not hack computer software, math problems or something of social impact – a beauty product. According to IBM’s Twitter…
Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters did not mince words when expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama Monday morning, saying on Fox Business’ Varney & Co. that he was a “total pussy.” Host Stuart Varney asked Peters about this thoughts on Obama’s Sunday night Oval Office address outlining his ISIS strategy. “I want to…
Screenshot via MSNBC On Friday, a bunch of journalists barged inside the apartment of Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook, the deceased suspects in Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. For nearly 15 minutes, MSNBC broadcast a live feed of reporter Kerry Sanders traipsing through the apartment, picking stuff up, and describing what he…
The freelance life. (Photo by flickr user @eekim, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License) Rachel Northrop shouldn’t have to use her credit card to buy groceries. She’s a successful young professional, after all, freelancing for several trade journals about tea and coffee production after having published a book on the subject in 2013. But…
Along with the ability to hail a ride from our phones, the app era has pioneered a great cultural shift, a mass willingness to, say, let a stranger spend the night in our homes or meet up with a cute random guy after just a few texts. But our newfound propensity for trusting strangers from…