Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Buckle up for Zola, a woman on Twitter who on Tuesday night wrote a contemporary epic in 150 tweets that will, I assume, within a year be adapted into a big-budget Tyler Perry/Quentin Tarantino collaboration called Zola & Jess & Jarrett & Z, or perhaps it will become a PSA of some sort, or maybe…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — Cat lovers and animal activists showed up at the Santa Clara County courthouse Monday for an accused cat killer’s hearing. San Jose resident Robert Farmer, 24, is charged with animal cruelty and other crimes related to stealing and hurting or killing cats. VIDEO: Man accused of kidnapping, killing cats in…
leading video or graphic inside story_update.jpt In Story Photo or Graphic Section paragraphs 4 leadingContainer photo leadingShape horizontal hasRBox false DUBLIN — Police say a 24-year-old Brazilian man has collapsed and died on board an Irish aircraft after becoming frenetic and attacking a fellow passenger. Sunday night’s Aer Lingus flight from Lisbon, Portugal, to Dublin…
I know, right? Will your friends agree? Share this Link You may remember Pizza Rat, the brave and brash rodent who carried a slice of cheese pizza down subway steps in New York. instagram.com Like us, you may have been worried that you’d never see this little adventurer again. Good news, boys and girls! You can…
NEWS: A forthcoming app called “Peeple” will purportedly function as a ratings service of private individuals. On 30 September 2015 social media users began buzzing about a purported new app called “Peeple” and proposed functionality (i.e., “to assign reviews and one- to five-star ratings to everyone you know”) that was almost universally scorned by its…
Fuck. Why are there so many fucking internet stars? Are you really supposed to refer to them as fucking “influencers,” like The New York Fucking Times does? Who the fuck are these fucking people? What the fuck is going on? Fuck. Okay. Okay. This is Tyler Fucking Oakley. He’s one of the biggest fucking YouTube…
From the September 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh Show: RUSH LIMBAUGH: There’s so much fraud. Snerdly came in today ‘what’s this NASA news, this NASA news is all exciting.’ I said yeah they found flowing water up there. ‘No kidding! Wow! Wow!’ Snerdly said ‘flowing water!?’ I said ‘why does that excite…
Getty Advertisement – Continue Reading Below You may have sensed a certain gullibility in the air last night, a potent strain with pungent notes of paranoia and confusion. (And just a touch of embarrassment in the finish.) That’s because it’s fake Facebook legal status season again. Has it really been a year? This time…
A new biography of the prime minister, written by former Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft and ex-Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott, is being serialised in the Daily Mail. The book – entitled “Call Me Dave” – claims that Cameron carried out the act on a dead pig while at a meeting of the university’s elite…
Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection. The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to…