Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I spend a lot of time thinking about things I hate, because it motivates me. At the gym, especially, I turn to bloody thoughts and — I’ll be honest with you — about 75% of my time on the elliptical I spend thinking about Sam Biddle. Sam Biddle writes for Gawker. He got famous…
Sharing items on social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter and Weibo can affect how well a user understands what they read, according to a new study. The finding comes after researchers from Peking University and Cornell University carried out a study on users of Weibo, a Chinese micro-blogging site which is similar to Twitter. Two…
Last week, Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder offhandedly gave an interview to Entertainment Weekly that perfectly encapsulated why he’s one of the most controversial directors working in Hollywood today. Fittingly for these franchise-stuffed times, the interview was about Superman supporting player Jimmy Olsen. Olsen is discussed when Snyder reveals that a character who appears…
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Yesterday was a strange day full of surprises. The fencing contractor I’d spoken to last week about a site visit for an estimate didn’t show up. Later, when I tried to attend a local community meeting in my neighborhood, I discovered that the indicated room was totally empty at the appointed time—apparently the meeting had…
The Associated Press news agency entered a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime in the 1930s, supplying American newspapers with material directly produced and selected by the Nazi propaganda ministry, archive material unearthed by a German historian has revealed. When the Nazi party seized power in Germany in 1933, one of its first objectives was…
paging_filter Anna Holmes is joining First Look Media in a senior editorial role, the company announced today. Holmes will create and run a new media property under the First Look umbrella that will focus on commissioning and curating visual work — including videos, photography and graphic storytelling — from independent creators. Holmes expects that the…
Image Credit: Sam Woolley On a popular torrent site, Fallout 4 has been downloaded nearly 140,000 times. Nearly 200 people are downloading right now, as I write this. AAA or indie, Fallout 4 or Super Meat Boy, it doesn’t matter. Piracy is inevitable. But a torrent doesn’t appear out of thin air. There’s a person…
“1) I ‘dated’ a white girl during my freshman year at college who—during sex, hookups, etc.—would almost always use the adjective ‘black’ when describing, uh, my dick. Any and all dirty talk that included the word ‘dick’ would include ‘black’ as a descriptor. At the time, I didn’t really care, though, ’cause she was hot,…