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Apartment cleaning plods along joylessly, and then this thing settles into its groove, and the dance party begins. youtu.be/p2sez21Cyyo
“[I]f expanding that audience meant involving white nationalists and neo-Nazis, their participation could always be laundered […]” twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/s…
Email clients and other digital products have come and gone, but I used @aim daily for nearly 20 years. That’s a hell of a thing. twitter.com/aim/status/916…
I want to go to there. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
Prrreeeeeetty excited about this. twitter.com/NoiseyMusic/st…
There are lots of opportunities for tech to do more good and less harm, and @sara_ann_marie is on the case: sarawb.com/technically-wr…
This is some handsome work. Looking forward to seeing how it’s implemented. Congrats to all involved! twitter.com/AaronRobbs/sta…
I hate that this is what will get me to finally watch Peter Bogdanovich’s four-hour Tom Petty documentary. RIP Tom Petty. twitter.com/RollingStone/s…
Links: September 2017
Down the Breitbart Hole
This is a current in American life we’ve not yet fully processed, but history will record a preponderance of today’s right-wing leaders who emerged in the toniest quarters of the nation’s bluest states. Apart from the obvious examples of Andrew Breitbart and Steve Bannon, annealed in Hollywood, you can think of Julia Hahn, who attended Alex’s high school and is now working with Bannon in the White House, and Ben Shapiro,… See more →
Undaunted by the decades that’ve passed since I last heard it, Mario Paint’s composer demo song is in my head today. youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3ckc…
Hüsker Dü’s “Whatever” covered by @OHMOURN: mournct.bandcamp.com/track/whatever
Harry Nilsson’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” covered by @WeyesBlood weyesblood.bandcamp.com/track/everybod…
“Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?” thenib.com/the-epa-used-t…
Looking forward to computering with the people of @indiewebcamp in NYC 9/30–10/01! 2017.indieweb.org/nyc
“All politics are identity politics—except the politics of white people, the politics of the bloody heirloom.” twitter.com/theatlantic/st…
There goes Grant Hart. Goddammit. Time for some Zen Arcade. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/art…
Okay NYC, the polls close at 9. If you haven’t already, get on it. project.wnyc.org/nyc-primary-20…
“‘But who,’ ventured Simone, ‘is here to interrupt us?’ The girls looked around. It was true: there was no one.” newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
I get pretty nerdy about typography, but this exhaustive takedown of a typographic myth is some next-level nerding. heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
It’s hard to imagine what the web would be without ALA. All people who make the web are encouraged to participate and/or become a member. twitter.com/alistapart/sta…
Regarding our commander-in-chief’s military priorities. thenib.com/trans-troops-a…
A nice roundup of noteworthy female and non-binary musicians making below-the-radar rock music. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Links: August 2017
Why Hollywood Is Trying to Turn Everything Into Movies — Even Mindless Games Like ‘Fruit Ninja’
Vinson then realized that he was faced with a formidable predicament. There are no protagonists or antagonists in Fruit Ninja.
Goldner says the key to making movies from board games and toys is to “focus on understanding the universal truth about the brand.”
The film’s director and co-writer, Tony Leondis, told me that “The Emoji Movie” actually began with… See more →
We’ve given the @propublica site a facelift. Revised logo, responsive design, new CMS. More improvements to come! propublica.org/nerds/welcome-…
“So the next time you wake up in the middle of the night, think of your pre-industrial ancestors and relax.” bbc.com/news/magazine-…
“[W]hatever mere starvation failed to accomplish at HUD, indifference and mismanagement would finish.” propublica.org/article/is-any…
“Your memo was a triumph of motivated reasoning: heads men win; tails women lose.” economist.com/news/21726276-…
Starting the day with a good cry after finishing The Keepers. youtube.com/watch?v=Khr7db…
“[A]nimals we most abhor are often the ones most capable of thriving within a human-made environment.” thisiscolossal.com/2017/08/biodiv…
“There’s a place for variety and richness in typography, for colorful […] creatures that live at abyssal depths.” typography.com/blog/the-lovel…
This is probably the most entertaining thing I’ve read this year. grubstreet.com/2017/08/alissa…
“I refuse to debate this. Does that make me inflexible? Yep, sure does. But […] not everything is worthy of debate.” adactio.com/journal/12658
“[…] like a frat bro dripping his ultimate-frisbee ball sweat into your futon.” avclub.com/article/did-19…
Sometimes I try to prune the list of people I follow on Twitter by unfollowing infrequent tweeters. But then I realize it’s a waste of time. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
“The sooner we stop letting tech get away with being insular […] the sooner we’ll start building technology that works for all of us.” twitter.com/sara_ann_marie…
The headline may be eye-rollingly alarmist, but this isn’t just some kids-these-days screed. The research presents real cause for concern. twitter.com/TheAtlantic/st…
“Let people work hard and aspire to someday be able to play golf. To afford to play it.” golf.com/tour-news/2017…
Name your punk band The Local Milk People. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/…
The NRA didn’t have to spend a dime and Hollywood didn’t have to come up with a new idea. Win/win! twitter.com/EW/status/8931…
With the copyright on Mickey Mouse set to expire in 2023, expect Disney to work toward changing the law again soon. thenib.com/who-owns-the-w…
Screenwriters “spent hours discussing the essence of Fruit Ninja. ‘For me, it is the messiness, the immediate release of destroying fruit.’” twitter.com/nytimes/status…
Links: July 2017
All the “wellness” products Americans love to buy are sold on both Infowars and Goop
Interesting look at how the same snake oil is marketed to very different audiences.
Trump and Putin’s Rashomon Summit
[T]he establishment of a cybersecurity working group with the two countries is somewhere between a head-scratcher and a punchline.
The Logic of Trump’s Sexist Attacks
The more a woman conforms to traditional gender norms, the more likely she is to experience… See more →
“‘I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,’ he said […] (Bannon declined to comment.)” newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizz…
“A nation now fundamentally unprepared to change, whether in terms of transport, climate change, or healthcare.” thetransportpolitic.com/2017/07/01/a-g…
New work: Putting names, faces, and stories to the US’s outsize problem of pregnancy-related deaths. Heartbreaking reporting @ByNinaMartin. twitter.com/ProPublica/sta…
“We’re using CSS to do CSS. No polyfills, or hacks. This is all as defined in the specifications.” rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/…
“[T]he establishment of a cybersecurity working group with the two countries is somewhere between a head-scratcher and a punchline.” twitter.com/TheAtlantic/st…
Interesting look at how the same snake oil is marketed to very different audiences. qz.com/1010684/all-th…
Links: June 2017
Animated Subway Maps Compared to Their Actual Geography
These are a wonderfully concise look at design thinking.
How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science
Murray Energy — despite its enormous clout with Mr. Trump and his top environmental official — boasts a payroll with only 6,000 employees. The coal industry nationwide is responsible for about 160,000 jobs, with just 65,000 directly in mining, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.
By… See more →
Watched the video, assumed it was a joke, looked very carefully, found no indication it’s a joke. 😐 indiegogo.com/projects/smart…