January 2012
The Anti-Lady Laws of 2012, by Sady Doyle →
rivertrash:
Sady Doyle takes a look at some truly fucking terrifying model anti-choice legislation.
The phrase “unborn child” is a semantic nightmare. It sounds like they take a newborn and shove it right back in there.
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Time Traveler From The Year 1998 Warns Nation Not... →
bestrooftalkever:
Seriously though.
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“Technology lets us do things faster and more efficiently; why would we use that...”
– Brian Lam: “Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic”
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WatchWhite Rabbits - “Heavy Metal” (off the forthcoming Milk Famous, out 3/6, via NPR)
Video is like watching a live-action Urban Outfitters catalog, but the song is good. Glad to see these guys are still around. Also, please note: not heavy metal at all.
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Ogilvy: "I am a lousy copywriter" →
Ad man David Ogilvy shares what might loosely be called his writing routine. I’m hanging on to this for the day the publishing industry goes under (Monday, is it?) and we’ve got nowhere else to run but advertising.
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“Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you’re a pimple and try to keep a lively...”
– Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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The Looming Threat of a Solar Superstorm - PopMech →
If you know me, you know there’s hardly anything I love more than a looming apocalyptic threat.
All this may seem like doomsaying, but the historic record suggests otherwise: The Halloween Storm, in fact, pales in comparison to several earlier events. In 1989, ground currents from a less intense geomagnetic storm knocked out a high-voltage transformer at a hydroelectric power plant Quebec,...
Brush up on your stats before tonight's State Of... →
Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs.
The top 1 percent take home 24 percent of the nation’s income, up from about 9 percent in 1976.
Private sector job creation under Obama in 2011 was larger than seven out of the eight years Bush was president.
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 2.5 million young adults gained health insurance.
For every one job...
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The Food Lab: Guacamole and the Science of... →
J. Kenji López-Alt (the man who deep-fried a pork belly for fun) is going vegan for a month. I don’t think there’s a better food writer out there for the challenge.
“you know how in college you have to make all those drunken terrible mistakes to...”
– karl, on becoming a better designer (via sisternebraska (I am dubiously helpful. Dubiously.))
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Great interview with Hanne Blank on her... →
Going to read the hell out of this book.
I’m quite attached to my identity as a gay man — and, to be honest, I would feel a little troubled having my category taken away from me.
See, that’s the thing, no one is going to take that away from you. No one can take that away from you. The only thing they can take away from you is the illusion that this is not something that is constructed. And...
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via Neil Gaiman)
In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi... →
by Mike Lacher
“In the early years of the 20th century, California laws against fellatio and...”
– And they claim the study of linguistics is dull. (via lazybookreviews)
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Who Pinched My Ride? →
Patrick Symmes had a bike stolen. Then another. Then he started planting GPS devices on decoy bikes and tracking the thieves. The FBI estimates that 204,000 bikes were stolen in the United States in 2010, but those are the reported thefts. Unreported, undocumented thefts are estimated at 4-5 times that: over one million bikes a year.
The purpose of stealing a bike, after all, is to sell it....
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WatchYou Can Do Anything!