Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Here’s a story that explains a bit about Kit Harington’s casting as Jon Snow: He was sporting a black eye, because he’d gotten into an altercation at McDonald’s late the night before. I now see Kit Harington in an entirely new light. As he explains in the video for W magazine (via People), he and…
After a string of both deaths and consumer complaints about the risk of its dressers tipping over and causing injury, Ikea is recalling 29 million dressers. The dressers—which Ikea advises customers to anchor to a wall to avoid harm—have led to a number of accidents, including the deaths of three toddlers in the past two…
The first time I was street harassed, I was 12 years old. Imagine a 12-year-old girl, long hair tossed back into a tangled ponytail, sporting a book and skinned knees. A child. Imagine being that child and learning that existing in the world means facing unwanted attention from men two, three, four times your age,…
The new BLU R1 HD is available to Prime members for just $49.99, featuring a beautiful 5” HD display, quad-core processor, and 4G LTE speed The new Moto G is available to Prime members for just $149.99, featuring a 5.5” full HD display, an octa-core processor with 2 GB of RAM, and 4G LTE speed Breakthrough pricing…
In fact, it has been a constant source of delight for me over the past year to get to continually tell hordes (literally) of people who want to – strap yourselves in, here it comes – control what their documents look like in ways that would be trivial in TeX, Microsoft Word, and every other…
Once again, Japan is raising the bar with hamburgers. This time, it’s turned its skills to Ghostbusters. Entabe reports that J.S. Burgers Cafe is rolling out Ghostbusters themed food at its restaurants. There’s the G.B. Burger (above), which comes with burgers slathered in black olive and anchovy paste, “bloody hot ketchup,” and cream on black…
Years ago, I helped Abigail Fishers get into college in Texas. That was my job: I “tutored” entitled teenagers through the application process. Specifically, and ominously for my later life, I taught them to write a convincing personal essay—a task that generally requires identifying some insight, usually gained over some period of growth. And growth…
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling safeguarding abortion rights was a major victory, finding that Texas was imposing a substantial and undue burden on both abortion providers and people seeking safe and legal abortion care. And what better way to celebrate than a winky tweet about all the people you’re gonna go jizz into? That was, anyway,…
Are you one of the roughly 6,000 people currently living or working in the United States’ most notorious extrajudicial prison complex and naval base? Do you fucking love Ludacris? Then it’s your lucky day, friend. Because on July 4th, Ludacris will be playing Gitmo, live and in person for one night only. Just like any…
Over the past 30-ish hours, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas anti-abortion law, Liz Warren spent a solid 15 minutes burning Trump, and the GOP let Crooked Hillary get away with Benghazi once and for all. And throughout all of it, red-faced Twitter egg king Donald Trump hasn’t made a peep. Something’s not right….