Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
main NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Super Bowl tickets are cheaper than they were last year. You can thank the Patriots for that. On average, tickets were selling for $2,879 on Monday, according to SeatGeek, a search engine that tracks online sales. That’s down 20% compared to the same day last year. And it’s actually 18% cheaper…
1. Mr and Mrs Granger of London were proud to say that they had a witch for a daughter. View this image › Warner Bros. Not that they said it much, or at all, to anyone. But they were proud all the same. 2. Proud, that is, until their daughter, Hermione, wiped all trace of…
Once you open a card full of glitter, it’s guaranteed to go everywhere—and from the looks of it, the same thing happens once you open a shop that offers to mail glitter to people’s enemies. Mathew Carpenter, the man behind ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com is begging people not to use his site the day after it went viral among the Internet’s…
The only thing worse than all the junk mail stuffed in your mailbox is finding a card that’s actually addressed to you, but is covered in mounds of glitter. The shiny stuff ends up all over your hands, your face, and your home, and it’s all but impossible to clean up. So that’s why a…
John, you’ll conduct Percy, you’ll be on violin what’s my instrument, Papa? your instrument is listening, Mary the greatest instrument of all you don’t have to point that so close to me well you keep backing away, silly how are you supposed to really hear it if you keep backing away into corners oh i…
(frankieleon) How much money would it take for you to be cool with the idea of embracing strangers for a living? For at least one worker making some dough off the growing industry, it’ll cost customers $80 an hour or $400 for an entire night of platonic spooning. There are worse things, surely. In in-depth…
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Some bearded dudes, courtesy Bristlr. Kershaw, the creator of the dating site, is third from right. (Bristlr) It’s probably one of the most annoying, and most inevitable, aspects of online dating: No matter who you are or what site you use, you’re bound to get a boatload of generic messages that look like they were…
Last week, a friend and I got a sneak peek at Google’s new self-driving cars. In addition to spending an afternoon cheating on my Intergalactic SpaceBoat of Light and Wonder, I got to chat with the engineers about the project. 1. Human beings are terrible drivers. We drink. We doze. We text. In the US,…
Jan 5, 2015 Members of the forum on BodyBuilding.com attempted to tackle one of the most confounding problems of our age: How many days are in a week? Much like Bertrand Russell’s quest to cast aside axiomatic approximations and rebuild the foundations of mathematics using air-tight, sound logic, the thread begins with a user appropriately…