Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
During its often rocky history, the Roman Empire had more than its share of leadership problems. Depending on which historians you favor, there were times when it had two, three, four, five and six emperors in a one-year period. The U.S. has had one president elected to four terms (FDR) and another who was elected…
I talked to them a long time before I realized the second guy was a congressman. (Gmail archives have helped me remember what happened.) Later googling revealed he was New York representative Jerry Nadler. Democrats had just won a majority in the House for the first time since 1994, and Nadler was on the judiciary committee; he was telling…
I’m now keeping a collection of terrible awful no-good ad-tech code. This isn’t just code that tracks you, I mean code that is actually written terribly and breaks sites all around the web. All of this is simply obtained by clicking on the link in the console to the file that contains the terrible ad…
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The only part of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation likely to attract public interest is his plan to limit in-work benefits for migrants. No.10 adopted the policy after focus groups found that it had more “cut-through” than a limit on numbers. Reports at the weekend suggested that Jeremy Corbyn, who is in Brussels for a meeting of the Party…
I’ve wanted to write a series of “personal” posts over the last few months on Sunday nights. I was going to call the series the Sunday Night Stream of Consciousness since that’s what it would’ve been – just a stream of consciousness post about stuff that had happened that week or on a particular issue….
Continue reading the main story Video Pope On Donald Trump’s Christianity Pope Francis, while flying back to the Vatican from Mexico, said that anyone who wants to build a wall along the Mexican border is not a Christian. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date February 18, 2016. Photo by Alessandro Di Meo/Agenzia Nazionale Stampa…
It’s hard not to feel a little thrown when you walk into a public space that’s become a camp for homeless people. At first there may be a moment of shock that economic reality has shown up and made a park or plaza a more complicated place to stroll. But what most people hopefully feel is…
Deus Ex‘s Warren Spector will take the lead on System Shock 3 with Otherside Entertainment. What could make the new System Shock sequel even more exciting? How about marking Warren Spector’s return to full-time game design? It seems that Spector, best-known for his work on Deus Ex and the original System Shock, will lead…
LONDON — Remember that picture that did the rounds recently, of a mother with her two daughters where you just couldn’t figure out which was which? The one featuring Kaylan Mahomes with her mom and her twin that had everyone flummoxed for a while? Mom, twin & me.❤️ pic.twitter.com/2l5QEfYX1f — Kaylan Mahomes (@kaylan_17) January 28,…