Killjoy attorneys for the New York Times who are most likely paid many times more per hour than New York Times reporters asked Twitter to nix the “Times Is On It” Twitter account, which parodies NYT stories and is loved by many. Poynter.org is on it. A NYT spokesperson tells Poynter they were protecting the [...]
The Velveteen Rabbi wrote a beautiful piece, in the form of a psalm, for The Children of Abraham / Ibrahim. Snip: “For every toddler in his mother’s arms / behind rubble of concrete and rebar / For every child who’s learned to distinguish / “our” bomb…
How do they capture slow-motion footage of beer as it sensually swirls in a glass? Where do videos of liquid chocolate splashing in dark ripples come from? Smithsonian has an answer, with a long video about a company that builds the high-speed cameras (and fake stage food) behind the commercials that make you thirsty and [...]
LA Game Space is a new nonprofit center for video game art, design and research taking up occupancy in a downtown warehouse space. Their first objective is to finance 30 games in one fell kickstarter, and they have design luminaries such as Hotline Miami’s Cactus, Adventure Time’s Pen War and QWOP’s Bennett Foddy ready to [...]
In 1990, researchers investigated the stories of 58 people who had had a near-death experience during surgery. Turns out, 30 of those people were never actually near-death, at all. They just thought they were.
New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said today that some facilities used for storing evidence in criminal cases flooded during Hurricane Sandy. “In some of our storage locations we have evidence that has been damaged,” Mr. Kelly told reporters Tuesday morning. “Significant flooding has taken place, no question about it.” More in the NYTimes. [...]
The International Business Times reports that a 22 year old Idaho man has been arrested in suspicion of breaking into the zoo and murdering a monkey. “I speak for many of us in the police department and the community who were angered and outraged over…
Paul Otellini, “a generally well-liked San Francisco native with an M.B.A. from Berkeley”, is to retire after 40 years at chipmaker Intel. [NYT]
The best international airlines are Singapore, Emirates, Air New Zealand and Virgin Atlantic. The best domestic airlines are Virgin America, JetBlue, Hawaiian, Alaska and Southwest. CNTraveler has the full lists.
Chimpanzees and orangutans experience mid-life crises, suggesting that the causes are “inherent in primate biology and not specific to human society.” [Reuters]
A gentleman in England “mistakenly handed out his cocaine stash to children” instead of Halloween candy, earning him 130 hours of community service and a fine. [Reuters]
Alex Balk spotted the best Daily Mail headline in recent memory: “Love-rat dad of nine children to eight women who headbutted ex-girlfriend in row over cheese toastie jailed for just 20 days.”
Why is a boutique web browser so popular in Europe’s last dictactorship? Opera’s maximalist, ultra-fast caching keeps bandwidth use down when using crappy, metered internet. [The Atlantic]
The Cedar Rapids Gazette: “A doe and her two fawns tried to get a jump on the Black Friday sales in Coralville on Monday morning when they surprised the staff at Kohl’s by entering through the automatic front doors.”
Jane Hu offers a stunningly exhaustive report on the urban legend of gerbiling and its connection to AIDS-era homophobia: “Gay sexuality as a realm plagued with abnormality, shame-inducing behaviors, and incomprehensible stupidity”, when apparently not…
October 2012 was the 332nd month in a row with a global average temperature that is higher than the 20th-century average. Put it another way: If you are younger than 28, then you have never experienced a colder-than-average month. In your entire life. …
This entire universe is nearing the point where it’s time to throw it a party full of black balloons and cheap Grim Reaper decorations, according to recent research by an international team of astronomers. They studied the rate at which stars are born and found that that rate is declining. In fact, most of the [...]
Michael from Public Knowledge sez, “Members of Congress need to know that their constituents support the sensible-yet-extraordinary copyright reform memo put out by the Republican Study Committee Friday night. For many members, a memo like this will help them formulate their first opinions about what “reasonable” copyright reform looks like. Members will only take the [...]
Letterbox Library and the Alliance of Radical Booksellers announce the Little Rebels Children’s Book Award, given for “children’s fiction for readers aged 12 and under which promotes social justice.”
(Thanks, Paul!)
Compassion AU helps to release children from poverty by sponsoring a child.
