Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(Photo: 7 Deadly) The Chocolate Covered Company covers things in chocolate, then sells them. That’s a great business premise! Everything is better when drenched in chocolate. I’ve never had chocolate covered jalapeños, but I can definitely imagine how wonderful the combination would be. The crew at 7 Deadly took them even further. They injected half…
Someone needs to save The X-Files from itself. Okay, it’s not in any imminent danger of ending, as it has been in the past. The recently concluded six-episode miniseries posted strong ratings (though they trended downward), so there will likely be more episodes at some point. And the core of the show is still strong….
Last night’s “The X-Files”—the final episode of the six-episode “event series” that saw the 1993 show return for a swansong two decades later—was an abject mess. “My Struggle II,” written and directed by series creator Chris Carter, was riddled with weaknesses, both structurally and ideologically. Given how messy the season’s opening episode was—that one was…
There’s having it your way and then there’s this. Japanese site RocketNews, the folks who once ordered a Whopper with a thousand pieces of bacon, a burger with a thousand slices of cheese, and one with a hundred slices of grilled onion, have returned to order yet another ridiculous Burger King burger. This: This time,…
Some thoughts on the conclusion of Fox’s The X-Files revival, including but not limited to: the Spartan virus, shady cabals, were-monsters, climate change, trash spirits, and Ford Explorers. Sophie Gilbert: During the first episode of The X-Files’s mini-revival, I found myself saying “gahhhh” rather more than I’d expected (and I’d expected a fair amount). Like:…
Unless you work in the media, or have a fascination with things like the mechanics of Javascript calls in publishing software, you might have missed the launch of a Google project known as Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP. In typical Google style, this boring name hides something fairly revolutionary — or something that could be…
If you’ve been searching on Google’s mobile site, you may have started seeing a selection of news articles from various publishers at the top of the search results, in a carousel that allows you to swipe from one to the other. And in the corner of the “card” for each article you might have noticed…
Kanye West is very unhappy with his most recent critic: music producer and Wikipedia survivor Bob Ezrin. In a firestorm of tweets, Yeezy held nothing back when he responded to a recent open rant (with Ezrin’s name on it) that had downplayed the rapper’s impact on music and art. “Do something relevant,” ’Ye retorted late…
Comedian and voice actor Harry Shearer somehow got his hands on audio of Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough chatting behind-the-scenes with Donald Trump in between breaks of their MSNBC town hall, playing it on his weekly radio show Le Show. Throughout the six minutes or so, Trump and the MSNBC hosts chat amiably about a variety of topics, including politics, the…
It’s time! This week, news that Hamburg banned coffee pods from government buildings set off a larger conversation about why we’re still giving our money to companies like Keurig and Nespresso. Let’s be honest: It’s time for the whole world to stop buying coffee pods. The news from Hamburg comes a year after Keurig announced…