Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
For women of color, she’s right. Instagram users can choose from over 20 filters, but as subjects, we don’t have a choice in how our images are processed once a filter is in place. In the name of enhancing or beautifying our photos, filters inevitably alter our appearances beyond recognition. In the name of enhancing…
AddThis Button Begin After re-signing with the Miami Heat for another year and a whopping $20 million, Dwyane Wade carried out an entertaining Twitter Q&A on Monday morning. Among the topics addressed were WWE’s Kane threatening to chokeslam him on WQAM if he decided to take his talents elsewhere in NBA Free Agency. Here are the…
Alligators are never to be messed up with, and one man paid the price after ignoring warning signs of alligators in the water. Tommie Woodward, a 28-year-old Texas man, was killed after mocking signs that warned alligators were in the water. Tommie yelled “F**K that alligator,” jumped in the lake, and was immediately mauled to…
Men’s Rights Activists love to “warn” women that they may soon face a day of reckoning if they don’t shape up and start acting the way MRAs think they should. Don’t make men angry, they say; you wouldn’t like us when we’re angry! Still, most MRAs making these “predictions” at least make a token effort…
Today saw the unsealing of documents from the 2005 civil suit in which Andrea Constand said Bill Cosby drugged and raped her while she worked at Temple University. The unsealing followed a request from the Associated Press, which Cosby’s legal team fought it on the grounds that Cosby isn’t a “public” person. Federal judge Eduardo…
Special message for automatic login ID change Blocking trauma with coloured blocks (Image: Oli Scarff/Getty) Manoeuvring the colourful tiles of Tetris can help block flashbacks of traumatic events, even after the memory has fixed itself in your mind. Playing the game could be an easy way to reduce the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)….
A New York judge on Monday threw out charges accusing a former computer programmer of stealing code from Goldman Sachs, bringing a six-year battle toward a close and highlighting how America’s legal system has failed to keep up with the rapid changes of the digital age. In the end, the protracted trial of Sergey Aleynikov,…
On the first Friday in May, a line of advertising and media people stretched down New York’s West 22nd Street, waiting to hear from Shane Smith, the 45-year-old bearded and bearish co-founder of Vice. One of the media world’s most flamboyant ceos had an announcement to make. The occasion was the Digital Content NewFronts, a…
Charlie Hales, the mayor of Portland, Ore., was running a zoning hearing last December when he missed a call on his cell from David Plouffe, the campaign mastermind behind Barack Obama’s ascent. Although Hales had never met him, Plouffe left a voice mail that had an air of charming familiarity, reminiscing about the 2008 rally…
CALAIS, Maine (TheBlaze/AP) — A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself, authorities said Sunday. Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in the backyard of a friend’s home in…