Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Joystiq will not grow to be much older than ten years. That’s a massive expenditure of time, if only to receive an unfinished creation in return. I, and my best friends in the world, leave Joystiq unfinished. We leave it as it was always going to be. How can you envision an end when your…
Paul Nungesser was cleared of a rape charge but faced a harsh trial-by-media. Now, as new details come to light, he’s speaking out and fighting back. The Columbia University senior vividly remembers the day, in April 2013, when he received a phone call while working in the school’s digital architecture lab. It was the campus…
Two and a half months after the death of Harper Lee’s sister (and lawyer) and 55 years since the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, HarperCollins has announced the summer release of Go Set a Watchman, the elusive author’s second novel. According to the New York Times, Go Set a Watchman “takes place 20 years…
When Democrats don’t stand up to the policing of speech, they surrender control of their party to its most extreme elements. Jessica Hill/AP “A liberal,” Robert Frost once said, “is someone who can’t take his own side in an argument.” If conservatives are often caricatured by their detractors as unfeeling, liberals are painted as uncertain,…
Andrew Sullivan is, as undoubtedly you’ve heard, leaving his eponymous blog: I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a writer before I am a blogger, and although it’s been a joy and a privilege to have…
As I found myself unexpectedly snowed in this weekend, I decided to take on a weekend project for fun. While searching for something to catch my fancy, I ran across an old Slate article claiming that they found a foolproof strategy for finding Waldo in the classic “Where’s Waldo?” book series. Now, I’m no Waldo-spotting…
(Bloomberg) — Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp. said the U.S. Justice Department won’t prosecute either company after an investigation into voicemail hacking and payments to public officials in the U.K. The companies announced the decision in separate regulatory filings on Monday. “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and…
article start Several large banks eased mortgage lending standards at the end of 2014 amid softer demand, including for loans that were eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, a Federal Reserve survey found.Still, nearly 85% of banks said underwriting standards remained basically unchanged, while 14% said credit standards eased somewhat from October…
Sometimes in this world, you want to make someone as wildly uncomfortable as humanly possible. That’s why Facebook’s here. It’s a fact many of us have been neglecting in recent months, what with our Twittter and our Instagrams and our Yik Yaks—we’ve been forgetting about the world of mischief potential within the walls of Zuck’s…
Are we really going to do this? Yes, apparently. We are going to have a “debate” about Is It Good To Vaccinate Your Kids, Yes Or Not Yes? (The answer is “yes,” by the way.) Let’s start with the good news, and then we’ll move on to the “Christ, is it cocktail o’clock yet?” bad…