Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last February, author Tess Gerritsen received information that would, over the course of a year, fuel a monumental legal action against Warner Bros and New Line Cinema. That battle pertained to the record breaking, crowd pleasing, Academy Award-winning film Gravity – which, as it happens, shared its title and bits of space terror with…
close media-action-overlay The Man Who Was Spock Leonard Nimoy, best known for playing the character Spock in the Star Trek television shows and films, died at 83. Video by Robin Lindsay on Publish Date February 27, 2015. Photo by NBC, via Photofest. Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as…
You can take our poll here. So far, about three-quarters of respondents see white and gold. But why are people seeing such wildly different colors? First off, it’s not monitor settings. (My husband and I looked at the same monitor and saw different colors.) It’s probably not about the cells in your eyes. Our retinas…
By now, you would have had at least 146 people on your Facebook or Twitter shove this photo into your feed, asking you what colour this dress is. The photo came from a Tumblr post: ‘guys please help me – is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can’t agree…
The debate is over. The dress that had the Internet booking eye appointments is … *drumroll* … black and blue.We’re super sorry, Team White and Gold. Take one last moment to think the dress looks like something Donald Trump designed. On Thursday, a vicious debate over the color of a lace and synthetic, body-hugging dress…
The entirety of Twitter has officially gone insane in what is almost definitely a master act of trolling over the color of some dress posted on BuzzFeed today. You can see the dress below, but be warned, everyone who has seen it thus far has already gone completely bonkers: The question posed by BuzzFeed is…
—Ben Dreyfuss on Thu. February 26, 2015 9:17 PM PDT “What color is this dress?” What color is this dress? White and gold, or blue and black? Photo on Tumblr divides Internet: http://t.co/la2B6vGtOt pic.twitter.com/dpb8h1SjQ3 — KTLA (@KTLA) February 27, 2015 It’s the defining question of our generation. I felt very strongly that it was gold…
Since it hit Tumblr yesterday, the image below has started an internet schism that may never be healed. Some maniacs, it seems, see the dress as gold and white, while other completely reasonable people see it as blue and black. This is not a joke. This is not a prank. This dress is blue and…
Why that dress looks white and gold: It’s overexposed Left: The “original” photo. Right: The photo corrected for overexposure. By Jonathan Ellis & Dustin Drankoski2015-02-27 04:03:25 UTC Yes, the Internet went crazy Thursday night over a dress that looked white and gold to some people, and blue and black to others. We’re not here to…
Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation. (And yes, it’s blue.) The fact that a single image could polarize the entire Internet into two aggressive camps is, let’s face it, just another Thursday. But for the past half-day, people across social media…