Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Yesterday, Outdoor Research responded with a perfectly inverted rebuttal, recreating the entire GQ article in its inverse: “we took three A-number-1 climbers and some adorable friends out for a weekend jaunt where all the far-out cool kids go—Vantage.” GQ on the left, OR on the right. See below for the articles’ full comparison. © GQ…
Cab drivers and owners get caught in the headlights of a troubled taxi lender As Melrose Credit Union looks to seize assets instead of refinancing medallion loans, individual owners fear for their future Photo: Buck Ennis THE ROAD AHEAD Drivers such as Medina are weighing whether to stay in the business. inheritedlink: /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20170709/SMALLBIZ/170709944&template=rwd& morning10:…
On the web, content fraudsters run sites that generate millions of views, get hundreds of thousands of fans, and even claw their way up to the top of search pages. Some of these sites are nothing but one person. With low cost cash grabs taking over search and social how can publishers win? To fix…
googleon: snippet Marc Kasowitz arrives at a press conference on June 8, after the testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey. (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s personal attorney on the Russia case, threatened a stranger in a string of profanity-laden emails Wednesday night. The man, a retired public relations professional in…
As Besty DeVos prepares to meet with sexual assault advocacy groups — an approach criticized for its planned meetings with those accused of rape — a top official at the Department of Education suggested “90 percent” of sexual assault allegations on college campuses, “fall into the category of ‘we were both drunk,’” in an interview. Candice E. Jackson,…
Start Article Post Content UPDATED: The prognosis on SoundCloud, the popular but financially strapped streaming service, has been grim for all of 2017, with 40 percent of its staff laid off last week and statements from its founders that it may not have enough money to see it through the year. According to a report…
That water’s hot: Tourists walk in mist near the geyser at Geysir, Iceland, which gave the phenomenon its name. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters Iceland Is Sick of Tourists’ Bad Behavior Visitors are underestimating the country’s dangers—and taking locals for granted. This month, Iceland’s ongoing tourism problems took a dark turn. Over the first weekend of July,…
We’ve all heard that we should take a mental health day from time to time, but how many of us are brave enough to actually take one—and let our coworkers and boss know that mental health issues may be the reason for being out of office? EFLON/FLICKR – FLIC.KR Well, Madalyn Parker, a web developer, did exactly…
The federal government is canceling the search for a new FBI headquarters, according to officials familiar with the decision, putting a more than decade-long effort by the bureau to move out of the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building back at square one. The decision follows years of failed attempts by federal officials to persuade Congress…
Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. And yet the swelling seas — and the cities they will…