Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Discovery Problem Is Solved I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old and music helps keep breakfast from turning into a food fight. So not long ago I fired up Spotify and did a quick search for “you are my sunshine.” Spotify did its thing, I picked one to play from the hundreds available and…
“New York City Is Going Crazy Over These Insane Next-Level Milkshakes,” proclaims a BuzzFeed post posted yesterday, which already has over a million views. I too am going crazy over these milkshakes, because they are abominable. They are the Melania Trump of food options and they are so extra I want to die. The milkshakes…
For whatever reason, this week’s collection of Wikipedia refuse is perhaps the most bizarre set yet. Put another way, this week’s articles are fucking phenomenal. http://gawker.com/the-10-best-ar… In this week’s set of unrighteously deleted Wikipedia articles, we bring you a creepy little town(?), a creepier alien cover-up, a possible murder plot on a vivacious, young centenarian,…
Rep. Mike Pitts, R- Laurens. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) file An Upstate lawmaker who tried to keep the Confederate flag flying and whose campaign spending habits were part of a Post and Courier examination of Statehouse money trails says it’s time to register journalists in the state. State Rep. Mike Pitts, R-Laurens, Tuesday introduced a…
Photo: Nasa By the end of February, Google will deploy at full scale its Accelerated Mobile Pages project by sending search results to amp-html pages. Because it integrates all monetization instruments —advertising, analytics and now subscription systems— Google’s AMP is likely to rally scores of publishers. Over 5000 developers registered to the Github repository of…
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Why can’t you find The Greatest Publication Ever Made on any newsstand or web browser or TV network? Because people don’t want it. This is America, where journalism is a business like any other. This is not England. The government will not be raining down supplemental income to support quality journalism. Take that socialism elsewhere!…
FRESNO, Calif. — Harlan Elrich is a high school teacher in California, and that means he must pay about $970 a year to a labor union. He teaches math, and he said the system did not add up. “I get to choose what movie I want to go see,” Mr. Elrich said. “I get to…
Photo Former President Bush and his son Jeb in Kennebunkport, Me., in 1991. A family friend remembered Jeb Bush as being “like the big cheese” on the tennis court. Credit George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/Corbis DERRY, N.H. — Tennis. Boating. Summers at Walker’s Point. Life among the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite (or WASPs, in…
A fan-made Half-Life 2 campaign that expands on the story in 1999’s Half Life: Opposing Force will launch on Steam in February. Prospekt, made by Richard Seabrook, is said to be as long as Half-Life 2: Episode One. It launches Feb. 11. The project began last year as a kind of job application to Valve,…