Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Tough news. Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month. I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time. The site, newsletter and app are beloved…
Although live streaming capabilities have been around for more than five years, the ubiquity of the livestream has only really taken flight with the advent of “Facebook Live”. This week at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, the largest broadcaster by some measures will be Facebook. There will be a Facebook Live facility where…
I’ve been meaning to write about this all week, but the weirdness of Brogan BamBrogan got in the way. A week or so ago, a judge ordered the release of documents that show beyond all reasonable doubt that Uber hired a CIA-linked private investigation firm to investigate the personal and professional life of Portland attorney Andrew…
“Ghostbusters,” a revival of the 1984 original, hits theaters nationwide on Friday. As a reboot of a beloved, male-led science fiction film from the 1980s with a female-led cast, the reboot has proved somewhat controversial in the circles you would expect. But regardless of the quality of the film, it serves as a perfect demonstration…
Supermodel and TV host Chrissy Teigen has made an art out of taking misogynistic trolls to task—including Piers Morgan and Geraldo Rivera. Why be pretty when you can be petty… and pretty! While the rest of us were busy deciding which Katy Perry concert tee to wear to the #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty, Chrissy Teigen has been quietly taking internet…
Tough news. Well this sucks to write: This. will go offline at the end of the month. I’m tempted to make the explanation for that complicated, but it’s pretty simple: we worked ourselves to the point of exhaustion, struggled to raise money and just ran out of time. The site, newsletter and app are beloved…
Dani Mathers was 2015’s Playmate of the Year. She has won an award for being hot, which maybe is what made her feel qualified to decide who deserves privacy in the gym and who should be mocked for having a body unlike hers. Now she’s fired, and otherwise in trouble. Mathers posted the photo below…
Templates: not just for adorable gingerbread houses. (Inhabitat) Clean up your newsroom workflow with ready-made tools that are easy to use I’ve never been much for cleaning my room. As a kid, I was too lazy for something that sounded so inconsequential. But my mom would scold me and remind me that, just by doing…
(1) Nerdy Childhood Pursuit Almost every conversation I have with an engineer starts with “oh I started coding when I was 10.” We think that people don’t really love technology unless they found it themselves in a garage. Well, I can tell you about using Perl when I was 10. And I can tell you…
It was only a couple of decades ago, before WiFi or the static death shriek of dial-up modems, that fetishes were hard-won secrets. The porno most of us stumbled across in our formative pubescence – a Playboy left on a rural Greyhound bus, or a waterlogged bodice-ripper in a back-alley dumpster – was all hard…