Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Atlantic Puffins. Photo: Stephan Rech/Westend61/GmbH/AlamyHere are a couple of warnings I offer, free of charge, to savvy consumers of glossy-magazine think pieces: 1) Beware rhetorical questions in headlines or subheads (e.g., “Has climate change made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?”) [1]; and 2) Beware paraphrased quotes in which the writer doing the paraphrasing…
Here’s what all the single ladies really want from the government — and it isn’t for a President to put a ring on it. Any questions? – Ilana Zucker-Scharff.
Hillary Clinton is expected to announce she’s officially launching a campaign for president on Sunday, formally ending two years of speculation and expectation that she would run again. Many questions remain, among them: Will she embrace President Obama’s legacy or criticize the president, and on what? How partisan will she go and how early? What…
In March, ComiXology had a buy one, get one free sale on Marvel titles, where you could literally buy any of the Marvel issues in their store. This morning they announced that, during that sale, seven out of the top ten comics sold were books with female heroes. Titles that did well include Thor, Silk, and Ms. Marvel….
The idea of trying to re-create The Rocky Horror Picture Show for network television pretty much sounds like the worst idea ever, and yet today we learned that Frank N. Furter and the denizens of Transsexual Transylvania are indeed coming to TV this fall on Fox. This year marks the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show,…
Eric Gaillard/Reuters Garry Trudeau, the Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical cartoonist behind Doonesbury, says his fellow satirists at Charlie Hebdo “wandered into the realm of hate speech.” Trudeau made the remark during his acceptance speech of the George Polk Awards in Journalism, according to Peter Bale, the head of the Center for Public Integrity. “Free speech… becomes its…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Sorry to disappoint you, recent Apple Watch buyers, but you’re not going to be able to use one of those brand new Apple Watch strap trading sites to get a whole new, extra watchband when your Apple Watch arrives. In case you missed it, a couple of Apple Watch band trading sites…
Since the dawn of online piracy, media companies have been serving subpoenas on Internet service providers to try to compel them to match up IP addresses of alleged pirates with the names on the accounts tied to those IP addresses. Unless the ISPs put up a fight, courts frequently grant these subpoenas, but one federal judge…
With Jean-Claude Juncker demanding a Unified European Army, it appears Germany is wasting no time in simultaneously boosting its own economy with warfare spending and comforting a ‘fearful populace’ with more military might. As Reuters reports, Germany plans to procure more than 100 additional Leopard 2 tanks, increasing its total Leopard 2 tank inventory by…
Mario Tama, Getty ImagesTumblr CEO David Karp and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Yahoo is planning a big reorganization that will bring Tumblr more closely into the company, instead of allowing it to be run as a largely independent business unit. The Information reports that CEO Marissa Mayer discussed the reorg last week at an offsite…