Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Three years ago I received a phone call from the owner of a leading Austrian retailing company. He was a client of mine. “I’ve decided I’m not going to sell the company just yet,” he said. “I want to take the company from a €70million turnover business to €120million within the next few years. And I’m confident I can…
He argues that Homer has been in a coma for the past 22 years of the show – and that everything that has happened since has only occured in his head. 3. OK, hear him out. The theory goes that in October 1992, the episode “Homer The Heretic” first aired, a key scene of which…
Average wages stagnate after 35. (bigstockphoto) Ah, your 20s: A decade of self discovery, smartphone dating and shopping for IKEA coffee tables — right? A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York sends a more sobering message to millennials: Your first 10 years in the labor market likely shape your lifetime earning…
A couple of weeks ago, my regularDestinycrew stopped playing. It wasn’t some big announced event, or something we had planned. Our loss of momentum started with a confluence of other, smaller occurrences. We took a few days off, then a few more. Then we weren’t playing at all. Once or twice, I’d be talking to…
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com By Nolan Feeney, TIME Scribd, an e-book and audiobook subscription service that has been likened to a “Netflix NFLX for books,” is now expanding to comic books. Subscribers will have access to more than 10,000 comic books, in addition to…
Penny Proud, who was fatally shot early Tuesday in New Orleans, is the fifth transgender woman of color in the United States to be killed within the past month, according to anti-violence and LGBT organizations mourning her death. A vigil for Proud on Tuesday was promoted on Twitter, where many mourned the accelerating succession of…
Journalists and netizens quickly investigated the suspect, discovering his Facebook profile, with an avatar proclaiming “Atheists for equality”, and a photo of a handgun, posted on January 21st. Radical “atheist” perspectives on his Facebook page have fuelled speculation that the attack is religion-motivated. Combat gear were also found included in his purported Amazon wish list….
Begin: WordPress Article Content The Chromecast is already a damned great little device. Pretty much the only thing* that would make it better is if Google randomly gave you free money for owning one. (*except for 5ghz WiFi support, that’d be good too.) What do you know! That’s what they’re doing today. As noted by…
Believe it or not, there are a lot of fake photos on the internet. And the explosion in the number of spammy Twitter accounts like OldPicsArchive and HistoryInPics help them spread like wildfire. Today we’re taking a look at 10 more fake-ish photos you may have seen in your social media streams recently. They’re all…
Bill Pugliano / GettyElon Musk Tesla sold only 120 cars in China in January, a Tesla source told Reuters. CEO Elon Musk is now prepared to fire overseas executives as the number was well below company targets, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Reuters, citing sources who have seen the email, says that Musk “threatened to fire…