Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In 1997, a writer and web developer named Paul Ford walked into a sushi restaurant in midtown Manhattan to meet a group of strangers. These were bloggers—a term not yet widely in use—who, along with Ford, formed a tight-knit vanguard of individuals publishing personal writing online. Ford had been building experimental personal websites since 1993, and had…
Last week, director Joseph Kahn dropped his “dark as f*ck” POWER/RANGERS short. Soon, it was pulled from the internet, but now it’s back in full NSFW glory. So what happened? In an exclusive interview, Kahn explains how the internet saved his short. Plus why he doesn’t think the real Power Rangers show should be this…
When Danuta Danielsson stepped out of a crowd in the Swedish city of Växjö in 1985 and hit a neo-Nazi with her purse, the photo quickly became famous around the world. Danielsson was widely praised back then: Her mother had reportedly survived a German Nazi concentration camp, according to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. Thirty years later, Danielsson,…
The burger’s demise won’t be marked by a declaration in a quarterly report, but by a collective appreciation for the comfort it offered America. Francis Vallance/Flickr/McDonald’s/The Atlantic If you like to lunch on two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun, you’d better act fast: McDonald’s has announced plans…
Photo The dress, seen in a photo from Caitlin McNeill’s Tumblr site and quickly posted on social media sites. The mother of the bride wore white and gold. Or was it blue and black? From a photograph of the dress the bride posted online, there was broad disagreement. A few days after the wedding last…
Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Way, the WIRED headline began. Sure, I’ll go with that. It continued, Can Skateboarding Legend Rodney Mullen Help It? And there it is: the idea that skate culture could energize a languid tech world. Is skateboarding the EpiPen the Valley needs? No. Please no. Not now. The last time skateboarding was a…
You can take our poll here. So far, about three-quarters of respondents see white and gold. But why are people seeing such wildly different colors? First off, it’s not monitor settings. (My husband and I looked at the same monitor and saw different colors.) It’s probably not about the cells in your eyes. Our retinas…
By now, you would have had at least 146 people on your Facebook or Twitter shove this photo into your feed, asking you what colour this dress is. The photo came from a Tumblr post: ‘guys please help me – is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can’t agree…
The debate is over. The dress that had the Internet booking eye appointments is … *drumroll* … black and blue.We’re super sorry, Team White and Gold. Take one last moment to think the dress looks like something Donald Trump designed. On Thursday, a vicious debate over the color of a lace and synthetic, body-hugging dress…
The entirety of Twitter has officially gone insane in what is almost definitely a master act of trolling over the color of some dress posted on BuzzFeed today. You can see the dress below, but be warned, everyone who has seen it thus far has already gone completely bonkers: The question posed by BuzzFeed is…