Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
· Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Eva Tiamat Baphomet Medusa — Tiamat for short — prefers to be identified as “it” and wants to become a “mythical beast” through a series of intense surgical procedures. Tiamat claims to be the first person to ever have both ears surgically removed for purely cosmetic reasons, and says it’s…
Yes, that poster is actually emitting light. (Photo: Caren Anderson/Velveteria/Used with Permission) For a magical time in the 1960s and ’70s, your wood-paneled basement hideaway wasn’t worth its weight in cheap weed and questionable acid without a collection of psychedelic blacklight posters. Combining Art Nouveau, Surrealism, Pop Art, and countless other artistic styles with the…
There’s an untapped market for droid therapists in the Star Wars universe, apparently, as evidenced in R2-D2’s crushing depression—described as “low-power mode” in typical degrading droid terminology—in The Force Awakens. The obvious lack of droid mental health awareness is also seen in C-3PO’s red arm, until now a puzzling but innocuous detail that’s never explained…
COPY PHOTO/copy photo Col Allan, 62, will retire at the end of the month. He joined News Corp. in 1974 and rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief of the tabloid in 2001. It’s the end of an error at the New York Post. Col Allan — the longest-serving editor at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp….
Two issues that come up repeatedly in strategy research are information asymmetries and transaction costs (concepts that originated in economics, with Nobel Memorial Prizes awarded for research in each). This issues are each particularly salient for start-ups attempting to sell in the face of failure.Transaction costs – transaction costs are huge any time a large…
Begin: WordPress Article Content If you’re a fan of Shuddle’s uber-style driving service for getting your kids to school/playdates/etc, bad news: they’re shutting (shudding?) the doors tomorrow. Shuddles main pitch point was their focus on safety: they did intense background checks on drivers, monitored drivers to ensure they stayed on route and didn’t speed or…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Another tech startup seeking to transform aviation has closed its doors. Beacon sought to bring an all-you-can-fly option to business and leisure travelers starting on the East coast. The company’s approach was to charge membership fees, handle customers at the gate with a white-glove service, and partner with regional aviation businesses…
Looks like the geniuses who run UC Davis never Googled the words “Streisand Effect.” After a police officer pepper-sprayed UC Davis students in a widely reported 2011 incident, the California university contracted with SEO consultants for $175,000 (or maybe more) to scrub unfavorable online items about the incident and boost online reputations of both…
Why don’t “booth babes” get considered to be Women In Games? I am not the first person to ask this question. Model View Culture’s “Feminists in Tech: Please Stop Treating Sex Work as a Contagion” serves as a concise introduction to the topic. That article is a year old. This topic, and variations upon it,…
I’m a big fan of Dan Lyons, the former Newsweek senior reporter who used to write the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs blog, and now is a comedy writer on the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” I’m looking forward to seeing him at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, in the heart of Silicon Valley, promoting his…