Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Earlier this week, Lena Dunham contributed a humor piece to the “Shouts and Murmurs” column of the New Yorker, called “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz” which lists scenarios and rhetorically asks readers to guess which applies to her dog and which applies to her boyfriend (examples: “He doesn’t tip. And he never brings his…
What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub. GitHub is still battling what it says is the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in the service’s history. What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub’s Twitter feed. The…
A driver of a vehicle tried to ram a gate at the National Security Agency building in Fort Meade Monday morning, resulting in a shooting, authorities say. Chad Jones, a spokesman at Fort Meade, told The Associated Press that two people are being treated for injuries and emergency responders are on the scene. Jones told…
In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States. “I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa,” he said with a smile. “It…
cache hit 371:single/related:1e6d73af662c029f845c9bf78cd7213d empty Enlarge / Zoe Quinn speaks at the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sam Machkovech When I sat down with her in January 2015, Zoe Quinn looked like she’d been through hell. In the public eye, Quinn was a number of things: an independent video game developer; a withdrawn, idiosyncratic presence at…
The much-cherished fry shop was destroyed during yesterday’s terrible East Village fire. Don’t you want these right now? Photo: Shanna Ravindra In the immediate wake of yesterday’s terrible fire in the East Village, a lot of people quickly recognized that the affected buildings included the one housing Pommes Frites, the tiny, much-loved Belgian-fry spot that…
Ten Years ago tonight, Doctor Who returned and changed the face of British science fiction. Many elements can be credited for its continued success, but one person can never get enough credit. Christopher Eccleston, who seldom gets his props, was really the best Doctor of them all. A Clean Break When it was announced in…
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says he has canceled all his company’s events in the state of Indiana after its governor signed into law a bill that makes it legal for individuals to use religious grounds as a defense when they are sued by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. And in an interview…
Incoming NYU students can expect to shell out roughly $71,000 for tuition and expenses next year. An awful lot of that money is going to pay for administrators, President John Sexton’s Fire Island beach house, and the pricey Manhattan real estate the university is sucking up like a satanic vacuum. So where will they find…
Ellen Pao lost her gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on all counts Friday, a closely watched trial by Silicon Valley’s elite that many saw as a referendum on the challenges women have faced in the world of technology and business. Since we last liveblogged two days ago, the…