Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Like winter, more Game of Thrones is coming. HBO today put out the first trailer for the sixth season of the low-fantasy show, an 80-second clip set in the spooky Hall of Faces first seen in the fifth season. The camera hovers ominously around the quiet hall, focusing on the disembodied faces of characters lost in…
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s challenges have been in the investor spotlight for months – now signs of turmoil are becoming visible at its Tumblr group. Tumblr, the popular blogging service that Yahoo acquired for $1.1 billion in 2013, was supposed to be Yahoo’s ticket to growth with younger, mobile users. But…
Harvey Levin, TMZ’s founder, leaving an L.A. gym. TMZ resembles an intelligence agency as much as a news organization. Credit Photograph by Peter Bohler for The New Yorker Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the early-morning hours of February 15, 2014, Ray Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, stepped into an elevator at the Revel hotel…
Even the world’s biggest apologists have spent some of the past week wondering what the fuck Kanye West is doing. He seems to be in a very erratic place right now, and his music often reflects it. But give Kanye West this: He will never, ever, in his life, put his name on a song…
The 15th of 20 seed bottles that make up the world’s longest-running experiment “Some people say it looks like a whiskey flask,” says curator Dr. Frank Telewski. (Photo: Kurt Stepnitz/Michigan State University) In the fall of 1879, Dr. William James Beal walked to a secret spot on Michigan State University’s campus and planted a strange…
[if lt IE 9]> < ![endif] This site is powered by Shareaholic – https://shareaholic.com Shareaholic Content Tags Shareaholic Content Tags End Shareaholic Open Graph Tags Shareaholic Open Graph Tags End [if lt IE 9]> Today, the South Dakota Senate voted 20-15 to pass HB 1008, a dangerous bill that singles out transgender students and prohibits…
NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Salon Media Group, Inc. (OTCQB:SLNM) today announced its results for the three and nine months ending December 31, 2015. Highlights: Net revenue was 32% higher than same period last year Improved revenues driven by programmatic and higher CPM pre-roll advertising Original editorial video expanded on the Salon.com…
Losing your wallet typically means spending a couple hours re-tracing your steps, canceling credit cards and accepting the fact that you’ll never get the wallet or its contents back. That was only partially the case for New Yorker Reilly Flaherty, who lost his wallet at a Wilco concert at Brooklyn’s Kings Theater last week, USA…
It has been just over two years since I became a full time investor at True Ventures (after being a venture investor for about six years). It seemed like a natural progression from being a reporter and then a company founder. My three different incarnations had a few things in common: I pray at the…
As studios and networks have finally begun to grapple with the shocking reality that audiences enjoy watching women go on adventures, we’ve seen an influx of female protagonists on superhero television in the last year. And while Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, and Supergirl have all been emphatically pushing the conversation forward, another hero took a quiet and revolutionary step earlier…