Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Update March 15, 2016: After this investigation was reported by multiple news outlets, including Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Instapundit, The Daily Dot, Kotaku, Digital Trends, Fusion, Gizmodo, Hyperallergic, Mentalfloss, BoingBoing, and ARTFIXdaily, on March 10, 2016 The New York Times published a follow-up story: Nefertiti 3-D Scanning Project in Germany Raises Doubts. -CW The New York Times’ March 1, 2016 story “Swiping…
Kristen Sze’s tweet Twitter /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Kristen Sze, an ABC news anchor in San Francisco, felt the wrath of Twitter when she had the audacity to question the price of Sasha and Malia Obama’s state-dinner dresses. According to Sze, the gowns ranged in price from $17,000-$20,000, and she deemed them “too expensive” for such…
Justin Worst, Marlo Webber and Jes Waldrip show off an LED light implant. Grindhouse Wetware calls it the Northstar. Courtesy of Ryan O’Shea A curious crowd lingered around Amal Graafstra as he carefully unpacked a pair of gloves, a small sterile blanket and a huge needle. A long line of people were waiting to get…
Well, at least they’re trying Today is the day of the Twitter tantrum known as #TheTriggering, a contrived hashtag in which the Internet’s biggest jerks have decided to post crap that is slightly more jerky than the crap they usually post. I’ve been poking around in the hashtag for a couple of hours and I have to say it’s…
Last week, the New York Times reported on a modern day, technological art heist. According to the Times, two artists snuck a camera and a Microsoft Kinect 3D scanner into the Neues Museum in Berlin and did a surreptitious scan of the 3,300 year old bust of Nefertiti. The artists put the purported results of…
On San Francisco’s Quantified Self-Delusion Sociology is a frustrating subject to have mastery in. Few people will ever read a book by an actual Sociologist on any subject, so cocksure is everyone that they have Society all mapped out. Then there are people like me who after reading literally thousands of books have come to…
There’s winning. And then there’s supporting a bigot. If the GOP lines up behind Trump, it doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously anymore. Political consulting and morality go together about as well as that famous fish and bicycle. Lawyers have constructed a neat paradigm obligating them to handle any and all clients, a very convenient…
UPDATE (2/19/16): We have extended our deadline for applications by 1 week! Apply by 11:59pm EST on February 26, 2016. Recipients of the Remix Residency will be chosen by March 18, 2016. NYPL Labs is pleased to announce our first Remix Residency, designed to spur transformative, interesting, beautiful new uses of our digital collections. We have been…
Lands’ End, purveyor of wide wale corduroys and round-necked cardigans, has apologized for featuring Gloria Steinem in its catalog and on its website. The sight of the 81-year-old women’s rights activist and an accompanying interview sent hundreds of outraged pro-life customers to the company’s Facebook page where they called Lands’ End “anti-child.” Some stated they…