Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Slouched deep in a swivel chair, knees bouncing up and down and hands gesticulating excitedly, Michael Pettis can’t contain his enthusiasm over “an explosion of creativity” in China’s underground rock music scene. Carsick Cars, the best-known band on Pettis’s music label Maybe Mars, has just won a semi-official award for exporting culture while another, Chui…
It wasn’t until I heard that a colleague had nuked his personal email account—on purpose, for good—that it hit me: Email is the most reviled personal technology ever. Mat Honan, the San Francisco bureau chief at BuzzFeed, was so fed up with email that he did the 21st-century equivalent of unlisting his phone number and…
Artificial trans fat will be banned from the U.S. food supply over the next three years under a ruling by regulators that the products pose health risks that contribute to heart disease, the leading killer of Americans. There’s no longer a scientific consensus that partially hydrogenated oils, the main source of trans fat, are generally…
Xbox boss Phil Spencer just announced that the Xbox One is getting backwards compatibility with 360 games later this year, which is pretty damn cool. You’ll be able to access your digital collection of 360 games on Xbox One, as well as put discs in and download games you already own. The service will be…
Minecraft is a game we’ve seen countless times before. And yet! The virtual reality demo showcased by Microsoft today makes the game almost seem brand new. You can start a new world on any surface you’d like—as you can see in the GIF above. Magical. Here’s the full demo. The amazing stuff starts at the…
Bush has long tried to distance himself from the deal. He was not a defendant in the Justice Department lawsuit, and no criminal charges were ever brought against him or MWI. He has repeatedly said that he didn’t directly profit from the venture or know about any alleged bribery or political influence peddling. But even…
As a recent Peace Corps volunteer in the DR, stationed near the border of Haiti, I have a very personal perspective on this issue. This may be hard to believe for most Americans, but racism in the DR is much worse than racism here in the United States. The idea of being black in the…
June 15, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Verizon Communications Inc. has no desire to sell the Huffington Post or buy Dish Network Corp., Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said at a Wall Street Journal conference Monday. Verizon agreed last month to pay $4.4 billion for AOL Inc., AOL 0.08 % which owns several media properties including the…
Ever since ur-blogger Andrew Sullivan retired from blogging in February, his fans and admirers (“SullyHeads,” as they’re not known) have wondered, “what’s Andrew Sullivan up to, right now?” and “what does Andrew Sullivan think about what is happening in the news lately?” Proving his doubters wrong, Sullivan has remained quiet since his last post in…
A reporter from DailyMail.com who has been critical of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was kicked off of his duty as print pool reporter for the campaign in New Hampshire Monday. Reporter David Martosko said early Monday that he was told by Clinton staffer Meredith Thatcher that he was not approved for today’s pooled events,…