Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last night, Piers Morgan’s smug little face was a panelist on Real Time With Bill Maher, and another panelist told him to fuck off. There’s more to this story, obviously, but the moment was so satisfying it stands on its own. Behold below, and bless you, Australian comic Jim Jefferies. Bless you. It’s SO BEAUTIFUL….
When I quit my editing job at Wired in 2012 to spend more time with my startup, Contextly was focussed on helping readers dive deeply into a story, via smart related links at the end of stories. I was frustrated then at the state of digital publishing tools and the lack of innovation in the news media…
Matt Kiser worked in news for many years, and now he works as a product manager at an algorithm startup in Seattle. But every day, Matt spends upwards of six hours working by hand on his single-subject blog, which launched in January. Starting a new project to track what the fuck just happened today. https://t.co/p64yr6BKJ3…
Last week, Merriam-Webster added more than a thousand words to the dictionary. Among them, “to ghost” was defined as abruptly cutting off all contact with someone by no longer accepting or responding to phone calls or messages. With Valentine’s Day approaching – a time of year some data analysts have found is actually a peak…
Image via screengrab. It’s been nearly a year since the release of the critical disaster that was Batman v. Superman, and most chatter about the upcoming standalone Batman movie—the one that’s supposed to star Ben Affleck—has died down. But it’s not because Affleck is trying to mend his relationship with Jennifer Garner or add some…
Image via Playboy. In late 2015, Playboy announced it would be a nudie mag no more. Their final issue featuring nipples and vag shots came out in January/February 2016, with Pamela Anderson on the cover, signifying the end of an era. It’s now the end of the new era. The first no-nude issue featured the…
Image via Netflix Almost half of couples who watch Netflix together end up doing something completely normal: skipping ahead on shows behind their partner’s back. According to the latest survey results, the occurrence of so-called Netflix cheating (an actual first-world problem that’s unforgivable to some), has increased tremendously since 2013, when the first study was…
Britney Ever After, Lifetime’s Britney Spears biopic that’s predestined to be awful, includes a dramatic reenactment of her breakup with Justin Timberlake in 2002. The melodramatic tone and acting in this scene perfectly satisfy Lifetime’s requirements. In the clip below, Britney enters a room backstage and sees Justin (Nathan Keyes) looking at a piece of…
Another day, another half a dozen stories of extreme dysfunction within the Trump Administration. Omarosa Manigault, the former Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice reality TV star who now heads communications at the Trump White House (the most terrifying reality TV show experiment of all time), “physically intimidated” a journalist outside the Oval Office last week according…
Photo: Facebook Mar-a-Lago members really got the full benefits of their $14,000 annual dues (after a $200,000 initiation fee) this weekend when esteemed President Donald Trump chose to conduct state business at a dinner table in the most public area of his country club. It was a great sacrifice by Trump, who was forced to…