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Shaq Wins Multiple Championships and LinkedIn
Shaquille O’Neal has joined LinkedIn people. You can now professionally connect with Shaq Daddy. “We reached out to Turner Sports and they confirmed that this is in fact the profile of Shaquille...
View ArticleThe Sharing Economy is Basically the New Coal Mining For Strangers With Candy
On one hand: The sharing economy has come on so quickly and powerfully that regulators and economists are still grappling to understand its impact. But one consequence is already clear: Many of these...
View ArticleTrailer: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
For as long as I’ve been reading movie blogs, I’ve been hearing the whispers about Richard Linklater’s (Sunset Trilogy, Dazed and Confused) audacious project, ‘Boyhood‘. The star of the movie, Ellar...
View ArticleHere’s Your Protip to Ignoring the Entire Point of Drinking Alcohol
Jim Koch, founder of The Boston Beer Company which brews Sam Adams beers, says the secret to drinking hard all night without getting too sloshed is eating a packet of dry yeast. Active dry yeast...
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Let’s Never Talk About Toast Again Okay?
“If you’re looking for a delicious treat — and a few extra calories — try pan-fried toast. To impress your friends, pull out the blowtorch. And when you’re stuck in a motel room and get a hankering for...
View ArticleLegendary Atari Video Game Stash Found
From The Verge: According to urban legend, a massive stockpile of Atari gear — including truckloads of the notoriously awful game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — has laid buried in a New Mexico landfill...
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Banky’s New Phone Booth Wiretapping Piece
The piece hasn’t been confirmed as a new Banksy, but all signs point to this being the famous street artist’s latest work on the side of a building in the town that is home to the English Government...
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Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Announced
Announced on the official Star Wars site this is the first ever cast list for the new Star Wars movie. The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. Actors John Boyega,...
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Casual Magic
Drew McWeeeny wonders if special effects have lost their specialness: I believe that I have maintained an active sense of wonder as I’ve gotten older, and part of that is a choice I made long ago as a...
View ArticlePointing Out The Obvious
“If you were to cross paths with one of your farming ancestors (circa 7,500 to 2,000 B.C.), he’d shove you to the ground, kick sand in your face, and jog off into the sunset with your mate slung over...
View ArticleKareem Abdul-Jabbar on Donald Sterling’s Racism
The NBA has thrown down the hammer on Clipper’s owner Donald Sterling by suspending him for life over his racist comments. But, Abdul-Jabbar has weighed in with a decidedly more intelligent and nuanced...
View ArticleThe End of Decent Headline Writing
“What follows is an incomplete list of ‘The End of’ stories from The Atlantic. I compiled them while procrastinating a copy-writing project, AKA The End of Productivity,” writes Joe Donatelli. In all,...
View ArticleNew DNA GPS Tool
This is pretty crazy: “An international team of scientists has developed a process that allows them to pinpoint a person’s geographical origin going back 1,000 years. Known as the Geographic Population...
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Batfleck
You’ve probably seen this one by now, surely, but I’m struck by how calculated Zack Snyder and Warner Brothers are being about the promotion of this movie, which doesn’t come out until next summer and...
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The Breathing City
Love this data visualization of Manhattan as a living organism from Joey Cherdachuk.
View ArticleTrailer: The Flash
This five-minute extended trailer for the Flash TV show, a spinoff of The CW’s ‘Arrow’ is essentially the pilot episode condensed to the broad strokes. But, boy, does this look like it’ll make a nice...
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Man’s Lack of Digital Footprint Baffles Police and Hampers Search for His Killer
Philip Welsh, a 65-year-old taxi dispatcher, lived a very simple life in Silver Springs — no internet, no email, no text messages, no electronic footprint to speak of. He had the habit of leaving his...
View ArticleSnapchat is Basically The New Beatlemania Ya’ll
If you’re an old person, like me, wondering what Snapchat is and why it turned down Facebook’s offers to buy them for a huge sum of money, this is a good place to start.
View ArticleA Cancer Doctor on Losing His Wife to Cancer
Fuck cancer: When we stopped at the first red light after leaving the hospital, I broke two of my most important marital promises. I started acting like my wife’s doctor, and I lied to her. I had just...
View ArticleThe Great Smartphone War
“For three years, Apple and Samsung have clashed on a scale almost unprecedented in business history, their legal war costing more than a billion dollars and spanning four continents. Beginning with...
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The 2014 World Cup Already has an Iconic Image and FIFA is Not Going to Like It
From Slate: On May 10, Brazilian artist Paulo Ito posted this mural on the doors of a schoolhouse in São Paulo’s Pompeia district. Less than a week later, it has become an international sensation,...
View ArticleTrailer #2: Guardians of the Galaxy
Look, you might not be excited for this one, but I sure as shit can’t wait for August to roll around. It’s also worth thinking about this movie in relation to this list about Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD...
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Edgar Wright Splits From Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’
Fuck. “Marvel and Edgar Wright jointly announced today that the studio and director have parted ways on ANT-MAN due to differences in their vision of the film. The decision to move on is amicable and...
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Discerning The Relative Popularity of Rock Bands and Pop Stars
I have lost all concept of the relative popularity of bands. It used to be easy. All you’d have to do is see which bands had chart-topping hits and which albums were selling hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleDigital Cartels
Two recent stories regarding the business practices of Google and Amazon have nothing to do with one another, yet absolutely seem 100% related on a macro level. The first is Amazon and how they are...
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“Post-Entertainment Entertainment”
Matt Zoller Seitz on ’22 Jump Street’: With its paint-by-numbers plotting and open acknowledgment that nothing onscreen makes sense (everyone thinks the cops are too old to pass for college dudes, and...
View ArticleThe Ball Unites Us
Jerome Thelia: As soon as I saw a photograph of an African soccer ball, stitched together from old rags in the geometric patterns so familiar to us, I wanted to tell its story. And so last July my...
View Article‘Community’ Moves to Yahoo for Season Six
Great news! Now that we’re getting six seasons, hopefully, Dan Harmon will treat us to a movie.
View ArticleIra Glass and ‘This American Life’ Goes Indie
Ira Glass, along with his radio program ‘This American Life’, is forgoing public radio and choosing to distribute his show on his own. But the big impact is financial. Gone are a distributor’s...
View ArticleLet’s Just Bring Back The Freezer-to-Table Movement
“Perhaps the problem with the farm-to-table movement is implicit in its name. Imagining the food chain as a field on one end and a plate of food at the other is not only reductive, it also puts us in...
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“You’re The Octopus That I’m Having For Breakfast.”
If you read one profile of Matt Rutledge, founder of pioneer e-commerce site woot.com, make it this one from D Magazine — especially for the opening anecdote about why Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos felt...
View ArticleOptimism
Bill and Melinda Gates delivered the Commencement speech to the 2014 class of Standford graduates on the theme of optimism. Here’s Bill about visiting a hospital on Soweto, South Africa: This was hell...
View ArticleBrazil’s Secret History of Southern Hospitality
Fascinating: “Well, yaw cum raht in,” he chirped excitedly. “I’ll git mah whife, and we’ll set us down and have us a rail nahce vis-i-ta-shun.” Say what? Six months earlier, I had moved to Brazil to...
View ArticleExtended Trailer for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
I’m just absurdly giddy that this film is only a month away. Everything about this trailer is expertly played. It’s fun, the stakes are clear, the character moments all shine. It’s a perfect piece of...
View Article“Even after 35 ft. and four years later, my wife and I still hear them”
Aaron Gouveia recounts the time he and his wife needed a pregnancy termination procedure and how the buffer zones — even at 35ft. — didn’t do much to protect them on the worst day of their collective...
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2014 Emmy Nominations
As if we needed further proof that broadcast television is completely irrelevant from a quality standpoint, the list of 2014 Emmy nominations should be proof. AMC, HBO, and Netflix led the way in...
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Redefining Classic Rock
Or, why you (and me) just realized you are one of the olds. Led Zeppelin is classic rock. So are Mötley Crüe and Ozzy Osbourne. But what about U2 or Nirvana? As a child of the 1990s, I never doubted...
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A Maze Inside a Museum
Neat project, but cooler architect to keep an eye on: “It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Bjarke Ingels would respond to an invitation from the National Building Museum with a design for a maze....
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Football is Football is Football is Tradition
Charles Pierce writing for Grantland: Because of these obscure common origins, as far as I know, there is no other game that is played so many different ways that is nonetheless called the same thing....
View Article‘Downton Abbey’ Season Five Trailer
You know the show has secretly been not that great since season two. It’s the giant elephant in the estate. Anyway, this pretty summed up my feelings on the matter: “Mr. Carson is pooping on about...
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