Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“A MASTERPIECE” reads the poster of Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea in a font larger than the title. It’s a font so large that the blur of motion doesn’t render it illegible—it’s in, I think, every subway station along New York’s L line, which means I’m confronted at least a few times on most…
The newest Raspberry Pi operating system, PIXEL, is pretty slick, but it was always limited to just the Raspberry Pi. Now, you can test drive it on a Mac or PC too. To use PIXEL, you just need to burn a live DVD or live USB, then boot from that. To make one,…
Media center-infused smart speakers and Bluetooth speakers are pretty common these days, but over on Hackaday, user Carlo Maria Curinga made one of the slickest looking little speakers we’ve seen yet. The hardware here includes a Raspberry Pi, a DAC, an amp, speaker, and a little LED matrix for visual feedback. On the software end,…
Screenshot via Columbia Pictures After nearly a year of hot and heavy anticipation, the Cruel Intentions reboot that we didn’t think we wanted until we really, really did is officially dead in the water. Deadline reports that the series in its current incarnation is officially dead, but rumors abound that Sony TV might reinvigorate the…
Emma Stone is arguably one of the more in-demand and well-known actresses of our times, on par with Jennifer Lawrence and others of her ilk. You’d think that at this point in her career, directors working with her at this stage would take what she had to say seriously. I am very sorry to report…
Taylor Swift is good at getting what she wants, and something she appears to want more than anything is a large, eclectic collection of living human accessories. Or, I mean, friends. But there appears to be one human being she desires who has resisted her gravitational pull, and that person is none other than Carol…
Miles Teller and his girlfriend Keleigh Sperry were involved in a car accident Thursday night in San Fernando Valley after an Uber driver made an “unsafe” left turn in front of them. TMZ reports Teller’s bright blue Bronco flipped to its side after the collision, which gave the two Uber passengers “minor injuries.” Though witnesses…
When it was revealed earlier this week that Jennifer Lopez suddenly backed out of a Miami New Year’s Eve performance that would have paid her $1 million, I thought, “What on earth could possibly be more appealing than making a million bucks in one evening?” Friday morning, Page Six reported that the answer to that…
For months, YouTubers have complained that their view counts are down. New data from the third-party stat tracker SocialBlade confirms what YouTubers fear: viewership is lower across the board. SocialBlade crunched some numbers for Kotaku and determined that, since the first half of the year, YouTube views are now 5-7% lower. Between July and September,…
Ad tech had a mixed year. Venture capital for ad tech slowed down, while mergers and acquisitions rose. And as fake news became one of the hottest topics in the media industry, it became more apparent than ever that some ad tech companies profited from proliferating fake news while others banked on preventing ads from…