Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
From: Paul Ford To: Virginia Heffernan Subject: Interested in being part of a Salon “Mothers who think” reboot? Virginia replied: Kind of, actually. Paul answered: Cool! Its called Mothers Who Tweet and its a cobrand with Maytag. No more than two tweets a week will be branded retweets and the rest will be original. If…
Does My Man Have a Right to Be Upset if I Accept Drinks From Other Guys When I Go Out Without Him? Ask Demetria: Let’s flip the question: Would you be upset if your man bought drinks for other women when he went out without you? Let your answer be your guide. /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Should…
DEJ LOAF: Back in the day, it wasn’t cool. I used to get teased a lot—[getting called] “tomboy, tomboy”—which I really didn’t like. I learned to embrace it, though. Girls made fun of it, but the guys they’d date were crushing on me. Now I’m confident, like, “I’m going to wear this, and you’ll see….
The Reading Level of the State of Union Address is in Decline Feb 17, 2015 · 2,239 views Recently, the Priceonomics team released a tool that measures the reading level of any text. To achieve this, we use five of the most commonly used reading indexes — the Automated Readability Index, the Coleman-Liau Index, the…
Are you a young, college-educated woman? Are you looking to settle down one day with a young, college-educated man? A word of advice: Stay away from Sarasota, Florida. INSERT IN_ARTICLE AD No offense intended to Sarasota’s bachelors — I’m sure they’re lovely. But for every ten guys under 35 with a diploma, there are roughly 18 female…
Photo Credit Photo illustration by Andrew B. Myers. Prop stylist: Sonia Rentsch. close shareTools As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013, Justine Sacco, 30 years old and the senior director of corporate communications at IAC, began tweeting acerbic little jokes about the…
NSFW The image contained in this post shocked me — but it also made me think about art and censorship. An image is worth a thousand words, right? I think Plato said that, or maybe it was Miley Cyrus. And for the past day, I’ve been contemplating an image of a bloody knife-as-phallus, attached to a pair…
SEOUL—A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the eldest daughter of Korean Air Lines Co. ’s chairman to one year in prison after finding her guilty of disrupting a flight in a case that has rekindled anger over the behavior of families that control South Korea’s big conglomerates. Cho Hyun-ah was found guilty of violating aviation laws…
I’m a good reporter but a lousy journalist. I know how to write, but I have no clue what people want to read. It’s taken me a long time to admit that. I owe this sudden clarity to 50 Shades of Grey – both the book (which I haven’t read) and the movie (which I…