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In one sentence, who are you? Cindy [sin-dee]: a quirky, creatively neurotic, unapologetic creature who has paintbrushes for fingers and toes—with a laugh that rumbles the ground. What do you do? How did you get into it? I am a picture book author and illustrator. Ever since I was a little, I had…

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium , a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. The Portable Document Format, or PDF, is everywhere. But it's still a format that causes headaches for the average person. Just take former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort,…

SUNDERLAND - Billy’s Beer and Wine sold exactly $47 worth of lottery tickets the day before Marjorie Selbee arrived, just another sleepy day for the liquor store in this tiny Western Massachusetts town. But from the moment the 70-something woman from Michigan entered the store early July 12, Billy’s…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration “You talking about a do-over, baby? Are you talking about a fucking do-over?! That’s not how the game is played! You can’t do that!” —Avon Barksdale, chewing out a referee who floats the idea of putting a few more seconds back on the clock to replay the final moments…

These kinds of body-shaming products masquerading as the feminist fight have been going on for years. Back in 2016, I received an email with the subject line “VSPOT MediSpa — Treatments for Vag-Empowerment,” alerting me of VSPOT, a “vagina spa” that’s still advertising a vagina-tightening laser…

I n spring 2013, HBO conducted a sly experiment on the “elite” TV-viewing public. It aired two new shows – both buddy dramas – back to back. Each was conceived as a short, self-contained season. Each had a single talented and idiosyncratic director for the entire season, and each dispensed with the…

A mural of Leonard Cohen on a Montreal building. François Ollivier for The New York Times MONTREAL — In an octagonal chamber at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal , a spectator in a trance-like state hums Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” as numbers on a digital display leap up to 631. That’s how…

It was black music. It was gay music. And the “disco sucks” movement said, “burn, baby, burn” Steve Dahl leads the crowd in anti-disco chants during his Disco Demolition event at Comiskey Park, Chicago, on July 12, 1979. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images) S teve Dahl had his dream job as a boisterous disc…

Oculus Rift users today found that their headsets were not working, and the problem appears to be a single expired certificate, as reported by Neowin . The certificate, which is part of the Oculus Runtime service, is being read as invalid, and the cause is likely a simple mistake like someone…

Chapter 1 Gerald Selbee broke the code of the American breakfast cereal industry because he was bored at work one day, because it was a fun mental challenge, because most things at his job were not fun and because he could —because he happened to be the kind of person who saw puzzles all around him,…

This is The Mechanic , in which Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the difficult journeys they underwent to make the best bits of their games. This time, Into the Breach [ official site ]. “I think we were resolved to having a UI nightmare from the beginning,” says Matthew Davis,…

I’m going to headbutt the next workshop facilitator who asks me to design my own wallet I’ve been going to design, tech, and design-tech conferences for over 10 years. And yet, over 10 years of conference-going I learnt precious little. Basically, I’m done with them. The content is usually 90%…

Fox Searchlight Pictures/Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration Best Picture Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri I’ve had a change of heart. I spent the better part of six weeks smarmily…

Source C harlie Munger settled into his seat in front of the crowd at the University of Southern California. It was 1994 and Munger had spent the last 20 years working alongside Warren Buffett as the two men grew Berkshire Hathaway into a billion-dollar corporation. Today, Munger was delivering a…

The design inspiration for Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Do The Right Thing, and more. by Tony Pierce The first images you saw of movies as diverse as Jurassic Park , Schindler’s List , and Do The Right Thing were all created by the same man — and you probably don’t know his name. That man is Tom…

The on-demand industry says it’s turned our concept of work upside down. But one attorney thinks we’ve been here before — again, and again, and again. By Lauren Smiley Shannon Liss-Riordan rolls a small black suitcase out of the ugly federal courthouse in San Francisco. She’s smiling, just a…

Trump maintains a cultish following, but with a new wave of scandal, his incompetence and boundless corruption may start to seep through Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images By Andrew Sullivan One of my favorite words is quickening as a noun. The dictionary will tell you it means the period in early…

Improving your designs with tactics instead of talent. Every web developer inevitably runs into situations where they need to make visual design decisions, whether they like it or not. Maybe the company you work for doesn’t have a full-time designer and you need to implement the UI for a new feature…

Within hours of announcing its decision to end a credit card relationship with the National Rifle Association, the First National Bank of Omaha found itself thrust into the center of the resurgent national gun debate. Its Twitter and Facebook pages were flooded with comments. Some customers…

Justine Zwiebel / BuzzFeed 89. Gigi (1958) MGM Directed by: Vincente Minnelli Written by: Alan Jay Lerner The other Oscars it won: Minnelli (Best Director); Lerner (Best Adapted Screenplay); Joseph Ruttenberg (Best Cinematography – Color); William A. Horning, E. Preston Ames, Henry Grace, and F.…

It’s like a baby photo, but if a baby was an entire team of mechs. Image: Subset Games Into The Breach is a great strategy game, but I can’t seem to translate the skills I learned with the starting team into any of the more advanced ones. The basic game design of Into The Breach rewards you for…

Spotify’s IPO is scheduled for this spring. Its SEC Filing offers an interesting perspective on the future of the news industry. A rather grim metaphor. Periodically, I hear someone say, “Oh, I intend to be the Spotify of news,” or, “What the news industry needs is a Spotify-like platform!” In fact,…

For the past four years, I’ve worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present. Well, I guess it’s a little more complicated than that. The first two years Two years in, I loved Google. When the annual employee survey asked…

Rahawa Haile | Longreads | February 2018 | 12 minutes (3,078 words) ( Spoiler alert! This essay contains numerous spoilers about the film Black Panther . ) By the time I sat down to watch Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther , a film about a thriving, fictional African country that has never been colonized,…

The Roger Oscar talk (would this finally be his year?) started in July, when the “ Blade Runner 2049 ” trailer dropped three months before the film’s release. From just two minutes of footage, it was clear that Denis Villeneuve’s reimagining of the Ridley Scott’s visionary world 32 years into the…

Here’s another in our series of interviews with a swath of Academy voters from different branches for their candid thoughts on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued this year. Best Picture of the Year “ The Shape of Water ” has broad appeal, is a beautifully done film, and feels like a…

Javier Zarracina/Vox In 2011, Tristan Harris’s company, Apture, was acquired by Google. Inside Google, he became unnerved by how the company worked. There was all this energy going into making the products better, more addicting, more delightful. But what if all that made the users’ lives worse,…

My Name is Emma González. I’m 18 years old, Cuban and bisexual. I’m so indecisive that I can’t pick a favorite color, and I’m allergic to 12 things. I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider—anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix. But none of this matters anymore.…

BOSTON (AP) — One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead. And in what could be a new…

After she dropped Ctrl , the praise for SZA was unanimous: Critics loved her. The charts loved her. The Internet formed a hive for her. She racked up five Grammy nominations...none of which turned into awards. So how is 2017’s favorite new artist holding up in 2018? After a string of scrappy,…

Screenshot: vero.co Vero was supposed to be the better Instagram. It was supposed to save social media. It was supposed to do loads of things that other blip-on-the-radar social networks like Ello and Peach promised. Turns out Vero doesn’t do very much of anything, and its CEO is genuinely awful. At…

It had been two months since self-described “titty streamer” Kaceytron finally covered up. Chunky sweaters and strings of pearls replaced her daily streaming uniform of tank tops and push-up bras. Her nearly 500,000 Twitch followers were at a loss: Some wondered whether Kaceytron had contracted a…

As the rest of America mourns the victims of the Parkland, Florida, massacre, President Trump took to Twitter. Not for him the rituals of grief. He is too consumed by rage and resentment. He interrupted his holidaying schedule at Mar-a-Lago only briefly, for a visit to a hospital where some of the…