Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Last Shadow Puppets are exhausted. Splayed on a couch in the lobby of Manhattan’s Bowery Hotel, Alex Turner and Miles Kane resemble a couple of loopy 2-year-olds being rounded up for bedtime. But you wouldn’t know how wrecked they are at first glance — both are styled to the nines in various patterns, textures, and…
For about five minutes after the collapse of the global economy in 2008, the public’s anger was focused enough to cause a temporary cutback in the abuse of corporate jet perks by rich executives. Clearly, those days are over. The FT has published a long investigative story today about the use of corporate jets for…
Canadian couple David and Collet Stephan have pleaded not guilty to charges that they “failed to provide the necessities for life” to their 19-month-old Ezekiel, who died of untreated meningitis four years ago. According to the CBC, prosecutors have claimed that the couple attempted to treat their son with home remedies rather than take him…
Photo Credit Irene Rinaldi Honolulu — OVER the past two decades as a professor, I’ve grown thousands of plants, studying how their biology shifts in response to our changing environment. Soon I’ll begin to design and build my fourth laboratory; I’ll teach classes and take on more staff members, as I do every year. Like…
Photo via InvictusForSenate.com Blood-drinking pagan and Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Augustus Sol Invictus was denied entry to Canada this weekend, FloridaPolitics.com reports. In a press release, Invictus, who is running to replace Marco Rubio, said that he was barred over ties to neo-Nazis. http://gawker.com/yes-i-drank-th… “Yes, I Drank the Goat’s Blood,” Says Florida’s Pagan, Libertarian,…
The New Haven Register reports that Yale senior and men’s basketball captain Jack Montague was in fact expelled, although it has thus far been impossible to verify the official reason behind his expulsion. The Yale Daily News has reported that Montague withdrew from Yale on February 10, and his permanent departure was announced last week….
Yale guard Nick Victor (21) and teammates, celebrating their Saturday win against Columbia, raise 4 fingers in reference to recently expelled captain Jack Montague. (Image via Bryan R. Smith/AP) The Yale men’s basketball team, facing controversy over various public displays of support for expelled team captain Jack Montague, has signaled a continuation of that support…
Chains and gears (source: Pixabay). On any given day, a software project fails somewhere in the world. It’s a common thing, so common that people are surprised when software is delivered exactly as expected and when expected. And this isn’t new, it has been happening for decades, according to the widely cited Chaos Report by…
It ain’t easy being an American taxpayer. The US Internal Revenue Service said last week that the number of records it lost in a 2015 data breach is higher than it previously thought. When the agency first announced in May 2015 that hackers had broken into its website and stolen tax transcripts, it said that…
About sixty-five miles east of New York City, in the southern part of the Long Island town of Brookhaven, there is a hamlet of around six thousand people called Yaphank. In Yaphank, there is a residential community called Siegfried Park, where the land is owned by a non-profit group called the German-American Settlement League. Siegfried…