Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Now that Marvel and Sony have joined forces to make the next Spider-Man movie, expectations for the film among fans are impossibly high. This possible title for the film should temper those expectations a bit. Sony has registered the URL Spidermanhomecomingthemovie.com (you’ll notice it redirects to Sony Pictures), which does seem to indicate that Sony…
I hadn’t even finished downloading the beta on Friday when the first messages began flooding in. “If the campaign for the new Doom is anywhere near the quality of the multiplayer beta, then that’s the franchise over,” the most scathing take read. This post originally appeared 4/3/16 on Kotaku Australia. It wasn’t that bad. But…
This weekend, Fusion and more than 100 other media organizations started publishing the Panama Papers, a global investigation into the secrets of offshore finance. So far it has yielded huge revelations about heads of state and politicians around the globe. Some of the biggest names to come out of the files include close friends and…
There is no national holiday. People do not get a day off work. But for a certain type of person, there are fewer more exciting days than the fourth of April 2016. The date so written – 4/4/16 – represents just one of nine so-called Square Root Days every century. The last was celebrated on…
In case you missed it last week, an enterprising Twitter user pointed out to Walmart that they were selling University of Maryland shirts with the nickname TERPS jammed into what is clearly an outline of Massachusetts: Now that’s amusing in and of itself. But what makes this story unique is Walmart’s reaction to the error….
The reasoning behind the new open source WordPress.com interface, named “Calypso,” is simple. The existing PHP codebase served the company and the WordPress community well since the company’s founding in 2003, and made a lot of sense three, five, and certainly ten years ago. But in the super-fast, mobile-first era, it had become a hindrance….
Yahoo’s offices have become a grim place of late. In February, C.E.O Marissa Mayer announced that the company would shed 15 percent of its staff as it explores a sale of its core business. This human “streamlining” has been particularly brutal for morale at Yahoo’s extensive media holdings. Numerous publications have been shuttered, including Yahoo…
The “Panama Papers” are being called the largest ever leak of secret data, and articles about the offshore bank accounts of bigwigs worldwide — developed by a global consortium of journalists — began appearing Sunday afternoon. They burst into the Sunday afternoon news lull, getting huge play in media outlets around the world and in…
FROM THE START of the reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaked document archive, government defenders insisted that no illegal behavior was revealed. That was always false: Multiple courts have now found the domestic metadata spying program in violation of the Constitution and relevant statutes and have issued similar rulings for other mass surveillance programs; numerous articles on NSA and GCHQ documented…
It’s easy to get confused by all the headlines about the Panama Papers, a massive 2.6-terabyte leak of documents that reveals a global web of corruption and tax avoidance. But Vox’s German Lopez uncovered a great explanation of what’s happening, and it’s courtesy of brilliant redditor DanGliesack. He uses piggy banks to help explain the…