Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As part of their promotion of “Sweater Day,” an event designed to reduce energy use during the winter months, Simon Fraser University released a rather ill-advised video. In the promotional video, an actress playing a female faculty member lowers the thermostat, takes off her glasses, puts on a pink sweater, and shakes out her long…
Apologies for the Bill Maher clip, but here’s feminist icon Gloria Steinem offering an interesting theory as to why so many young women are supporting Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton. In the middle of a larger discussion about the Democratic primary, Steinem said: “Women are more for [Hillary Clinton] than men are…First of all,…
My boyfriend asked me to marry him on Christmas Eve. It was simple and straightforward, not unlike our relationship. He posed a sincere and direct question to which I provided a sincere and direct response. It was easy. Love isn’t all that complicated, I don’t think. That’s why we say we fall into it, passively…
The WP REST API team met yesterday in the #core-restapi Slack channel to discuss the status of the existing post, term, user, and comment endpoints. There are a few outstanding issues with these four core objects, which the team wants to tackle via a feature plugin approach instead of holding the API back from merge….
A 38-year-old man who had just stepped out of his parked car was killed and four others injured when a construction crane toppled over and smashed into a busy Tribeca street Friday morning, officials said. The crane crashed into a row of parked cars when it capsized onto Worth St. near Church St. about…
When the popular YouTubers known as the Fine Brothers speak about their work — specifically, a series of online videos where people of various age groups “react” to pop culture and Internet phenomena — they often speak in terms of creating “time capsules” for future generations to watch and understand how we viewed the world…
(Amy King/The Washington Post; iStock) In the aftermath of an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle that sickened dozens of people across the United States last fall and led to an overhaul of the company’s food safety practices, Americans reacted by avoiding the beloved fast-food chain. Restaurants that once sported long lines were suddenly empty, a phenomenon that was almost…
Who cares how Yahoo’s business performed in its fourth quarter? The main point: It’s officially for sale. Said Yahoo chairman Maynard Webb: “The Board also believes that exploring additional strategic alternatives, in parallel to the execution of the management plan, is in the best interest of our shareholders. Separating our Alibaba stake from our operating…
In corporate America, the most persistent refuge of outright charlatanism is “branding.” The only thing more offensive to honesty than a “rebranding” campaign is a breathless feature story about a rebranding campaign. What do we have in Wired today… ah, it’s a breathless feature story about a rebranding campaign! “The Inside Story of Uber’s Radical…