Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana got his official portrait done and well, it’s missing two very important things: melanin, so therefore accuracy. Jindal is of Indian descent, and he is perpetually saying the worst things. He really must get his Land of Abandoned People passport soon. But this official portrait is doing the Matrix backbend to…
What does the phrase “next weekend” mean to you? According to its definition, it should mean the the nearest or most immediate weekend. But the nearest weekend is often called “this weekend,” leading some people to assume that by saying “next weekend,” you might actually mean the weekend after this coming one. Many people find themselves…
by Zack Ford Posted on February 3, 2015 at 10:20 am “Oregon Bakery Found Culpable For Anti-Gay Discrimination, Could Face $150,000 Fine” Aaron and Melissa Klein speaking at the 2014 Values Voters Summit, hosted by the Family Research Council. CREDIT: YouTube/FRCAction The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) announced Monday that the owners of…
Gearbox COO Brian Martel says that a re-release of Homeworld: Cataclysm depends on “finding the original source code.” Gearbox’s Homeworld Remastered Collection will be releasing later this month and the excitement among fans of the classic franchise couldn’t be higher. For some however, the release of the collection is marred by the persistence of a…
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis easily swept the 2014 Grammy Awards, racking up wins in multiple rap categories at a ceremony that has historically been blind to the cultural impact of many revered hip-hop artists.Critics argued that even in 2014, it still took a white rapper like Macklemore to achieve this, while Kendrick Lamar left without…
“Make it happy!” Coca-Cola’s new marketing campaign exhorts. The campaign, introduced during a Super Bowl commercial, is accompanied by a stunt through which Twitter users reply to negative tweets with the hashtag “#MakeItHappy”; Coca-Cola then transforms those tweets into cute ASCII art. “We turned the hate you found into something happy,” @CocaCola chirps. The Twitter…
Okay, without looking, what do you picture when you see the phrase “broken on the wheel,” as in the old-timey medieval execution method? (WITHOUT LOOKING.) LIKE SELF, you probably had a general sense of some bejerkined fellow stretched out over a big wheel (possibly the kind of wheel that spins on a water-mill, possibly a…
While attending my first tech conference as a journalist last year, I couldn’t help but snicker to myself as I watched the grey-haired CEO of a large software company dedicate a large portion of his two-hour keynote presentation to “the millennial in the workplace conundrum,” as 100,000 middle-aged attendees rapidly scribbled in their notepads, laptops,…
Gangs of New York: the Battle for 5 Pointz Jump to the comments ↓ Author Margaret McCormick SummaryA legendary venue for street art is now history. Torn apart, quite literally, by a new economy. But just how did a former factory become this legend and why was there no chance to save it? Themes Space…
This is going to be short since I’m on a train — headed to DC, of all places — but today’s momentous net neutrality news deserves a moment to state the obvious: we won. I asked my friend Julie Samuels from Engine Advocacy for a comment, and all she said was “this is fucking awesome.”…