Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Nan Palmero/FlickrLinkedIn’s stock had its worst day ever. Shares cratered by as much as 44% in trading on Friday after the company reported a quarterly loss on Thursday, with guidance that was weaker than expected. It was the worst decline ever for the stock and has erased about $10 billion of the company’s value. The social…
For four glorious hours, Moe’s Southwest Grill was the burrito king. While every Chipotle in the country closed its doors Monday from 11 AM to 3 PM for a company-wide food safety meeting in response to its recent E. coli outbreaks, the smaller, queso-serving casual Mexican chain celebrated its day in the limelight. While Chipotle…
Do you ever listen to electronic music and think, “You know what would make this better? Star Wars samples!” You’re not alone, apparently: legendary producer Rick Rubin is curating a new EDM compilation called Star Wars Headspace, a sort of companion piece for the December’s The Force Awakens in which a dozen popular producers monkey…
It’s not exactly uncommon knowledge at this point that the never-released Game of Thrones pilot wasn’t just totally different to what we got; it was a downright disaster. But it eventually got reworked into something that sparked a cultural sensation is a miracle… and hoo boy, do David Benioff and D. B. Weiss know it….
It was easily one of the biggest interviews of my career. My editor couldn’t get it for me. I got it myself. I joke about it pretty frequently, although being about six feet tall with a curvier build undoubtedly has its advantages. It was late last July, I was in a tiny crop top and a destroyed…
Feminist supporters wonder: How can we help Sanders draw more female supporters? (Troy Wayrynen/AP) Sylva Stoel runs the Twitter account @QueenFeminist. Each day, the South Dakota teenager shares her thoughts on gender equality to more than 24,600 followers. Stop 👏 shaming 👏 women 👏 for 👏 our 👏 bodies 👏 & 👏 how 👏 we…
The zillions of tie-in stories for The Force Awakens revealed there was going to be a scene in the movie where Leia acknowledged that her former colleagues in the Senate were just as likely to want to have her killed as they were to ignore her. A new Star Wars novel is going to explore…
The Expanse just finished its first season—leaving us with ten episodes of a show which beat all our highest expectations and made Syfy a destination in a way that it hasn’t been since Battlestar Galactica. How? Warning: Spoilers abound. The Expanse had a doubly difficult job to do. It had to adapt a book to…
When this launched, there were dozens of confused comments from people wondering what old videogames has to do with Internet history. In my mind, this stems from mistaken perception issues of the Internet Archive as solely an institution saving webpages. But their mission and motto is much broader: Universal access to all knowledge. The Internet…
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. (Jae C. Hong/AP) Updated with Carson response Somehow, the word “gaffe” doesn’t quite describe Ben Carson’s latest foot-in-mouth moment. His stumble on the stump in Iowa on Thursday was awkward, embarrassing, possibly painful — anything but funny. And it involved a school kid who — how to put this pleasantly?…