Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
If you’ve ever tried to get your hands on a Black Widow toy only to be disappointed by aisles and aisles full of Hulk and Hawkeye merch, Iron Man 3 director Shane Black has some disturbing insider insight for you. In a new interview with Uproxx about his upcoming film The Nice Guys, Black revealed…
Artist’s rendering of how Slate staffers feel about the closing of The Toast.Screenshot/The Toast This morning, Nicole Cliffe and “Dear Prudence” columnist Mallory Ortberg, co-founders of The Toast, announced that the publication will be closing as of July 1, and the Internet wept. It’s hard to believe that The Toast has only been in…
It started innocently enough. But as the Great Post-It War of 2016 raged on into a second day on Monday, pulling more agencies, brands, neighborhoods and even an industry awards show into its mildly adhesive orbit, it seemed unlikely peacetime, or billable hours, would ever return to Canal Street. Anyone from Havas New York, Omnicom…
Facebook might be hosting upwards of 8 billion views per day on its platform, but a wide majority of that viewership is happening in silence. As much as 85 percent of video views happen with the sound off, according to multiple publishers. Take, for instance, feel-good site LittleThings, which is averaging 150 million monthly views on…
/end .figure VISIONARY: So there’s this dog. PBS SUITS: We’re listening. VISIONARY: And he loves books. /end .ad [nodding, nodding] VISIONARY: He knows all about classic books. SUIT #1: Adorable. SUIT #2: Like a cartoon dog? VISIONARY: No, no. A live Jack Russell Terrier. […] VISIONARY: He belongs to a boy named Joe. SUIT…
A small stretch of Canal Street is at war — and it’s pretty. Companies in buildings across the street from each other are filling their windows with Post-it notes in elaborate designs in what’s become something of a colorful battle of one-upsmanship, as first reported by New York 1. Marge & Maggie stopped by #postitwar #canalnotes pic.twitter.com/6ZFhCwLtHS…
This summer, Ghostbusters brings a whole new generation face-to-face with how cool it is to strap a proton pack to your back and take down the undead with style. But because we live in a world where men go into fits of hysteria over the gender of things like fictional busters of ghosts, we just…
It does not. But what if it did? Then, Civil War would probably look something like this. As pointed out by tipster Sang, Twitter user and artist Bin1 Production has been uploading images of characters from Namco Bandai’s The Idolmaster as if they were Marvel superheroes. You can follow Bin1 Production on Twitter here or…
Untold-stories.net (Courtesy of Ruben Pater) There’s an interesting trend in Web design these days: Making websites that look, well … bad. Look at Hacker News. Pinboard. The Drudge Report. Adult Swim. Bloomberg Businessweek features. All of these sites — some years old, some built recently — and hundreds more like them, eschew the templated, user-friendly…
Twitter: latest update shows the service is more than just words Posting a photo or URL, even when Twitter shortens the link, currently takes up 23 characters, meaning users only have 117 characters to play with. Combined with emoji or hashtags, this doesn’t leave much room for words. Observers say the tweak is a minor…