Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In his forthcoming book, “The Voyeur’s Motel,” acclaimed journalist and nonfiction author Gay Talese chronicles the bizarre story of Gerald Foos, who allegedly spied on guests at his Colorado motel from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. But Talese overlooked a key fact in his book: Foos sold the motel, located in Aurora, Colo., in…
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Clinton Global Initiative University—a little known part of the Clinton Foundation—might have made the same error as Donald Trump by using the word “university” without permission from New York State. The New York State Education Department is reviewing the Clinton Global Initiative University’s decision to use the term “university” in its name without explicit permission….
If the idea of an Aspen-style gondola ferrying potential shoppers and tourists across the Potomac River from Rosslyn to Georgetown seems farfetched, you probably have yet to encounter the Georgetown Business Improvement District’s newest crowd share pilot project: ParasolShare. Now the beleaguered shoppers of downtown Georgetown can finally get relief from that relentless and inconvenient…
Overwatch’s competitive mode has been in the wild for a few days now, and well, let’s just say that Blizzard should maybe consider changing their name. Related: what do you call a snowstorm, except it’s made entirely of salt? I should preface this by saying that I don’t think Overwatch’s competitive mode is all that…
Robert Carter for The Washington Post On a sleepless night last winter — insomnia being an intelligent response to the condition of our country — I turned on the television and found “The Deer Hunter.” As I watched the extraordinary first hour of the film — the steel mill and its fiery floor; the homely…
Three years ago, TIME magazine published a cover story called “The Me Me Me Generation—Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.” It was the print version of clickbait, designed to be devoured by TIME’s Baby Boomer base, or perhaps flipped through angrily by millennials killing time at TIME’s most reliable subscriber,…
Spotify says Apple is using its App Store approval process as “a weapon.” Apple says that claim is a load of BS. In a letter sent to Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez on Friday, Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell rebutted the streaming music service’s June 26 allegations that Apple is “causing grave harm to Spotify…
» FRIDAY UPDATE: Weekly newspaper publisher Mark Thomason says he was called in Friday morning to submit to a drug test, which is one of the conditions of his bond. Had he failed the test, Thomason said, there were deputies waiting to take him into custody. ‘Retaliation for use of the Open Records Act will…