Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As the Internet has leveled many power blocs of the old music business, playlists have become valuable currency in streaming’s new world order, so much so that record companies now actively promote — and sometimes pay for — their songs to appear on such services as Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music. Playlist promotion “is a very, very…
Study Introduction: A case study was commissioned to review the impact of user experience (UX) design in a galaxy far, far away. This appears to be a period full of technological wonder with faster-than-light space travel, advanced life-saving technology as well as advanced weaponry. However, systematic design mistakes also proliferate. For example, pressure (literally choking…
As Jonathan Franzen’s new book, Purity, gets closer to release, talk about the author has picked up speed. One question that keeps coming up repeatedly is:Is Jonathan Franzen sexist? Oh, if only there were a cut and dried answer to this. Franzen is a controversial figure in contemporary literature, beloved by many critics and hated by many readers….
In a setup that would not look out of place in fiction, Jonathan Franzen, the bestselling American novelist, has said he once considered adopting an Iraqi war orphan to help him understand young people better, but was persuaded against it by his editor. Franzen said he was in his late 40s at the time with…
Realistic waistlines, realistic faces: there are very few ways Disney princesses haven’t been reimagined at this point. None of these comforting images, however, hit as close to home as seeing what the princesses would look like if their hair and makeup were a little less perfect. Buzzfeed shared these glorious makeunders back in April, and now…
When Caitlyn Jenner came out to the world in April, she gave a lot of the credit to one man in helping her family understand her new identity: Kanye West. “They were talking about it and [West] says to Kim, ‘Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I…
Every single word spoken by a person of color in every film in the blockbuster ‘Harry Potter’ franchise. everysinglewordspoken.tumblr.com ▶ Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in the Entire ‘Harry Potter’ Film Series – YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EagQVJuM-K0 After last week’s incredible sendoff for Jon Stewart, Comedy Central is letting Trevor Noah charge ass-first into his hosting duties for next month’s return of The Daily Show. Here, Noah saunters onto his new set — Kanye’s Power pumping in the background — and takes a seat at the helm. But not before adjusting the seat’s height, in what mightbe…
On January 27, 1991, at a record-release party for the rap duo Bytches With Problems in Hollywood, producer/rapper/then-N.W.A. member Dr. Dre brutally attacked Dee Barnes, the host of a well-known Fox show about hip-hop called Pump It Up! Dre was reportedly angry about a Pump It Up! segment hosted by Barnes that aired in November…
Though some pretty rabid anti-Fat Jew sentiment had been bubbling under for a while, it really kicked up on Twitter this weekend, with dozens upon dozens of comedians weighing in on the Instagram darling, “content aggregator,” and blatant joke thief. Everyone from Michael Ian Black to Norm MacDonald called out The Fat Jew (real name…