Clive Thompson: How clicking "like" on a brand might void your ability to sue them: http://t.co/T4GR3SbKJ7

Style/Storytelling Nathan: A lot of big-name directors and actors were attached to American Psycho at various times , most notably Oliver Stone, before a relatively inexperienced, unknown director named Mary Harron ended up with the job. Harron gives the film an almost Kubrickian coldness and…

Every now and again I'll come across a QR code, typically in an ad targeted at someone in my general demographic but clearly created by someone that just has no idea about anything. Advertising for e-cigarettes and bad music festivals seem like probable domains for this DOA technology. QR codes just…

Clive Thompson: Hacking the sun to get more sunlight: Not as easy as it might seem, as a Norwegian town discovers -- http://t.co/Zuhy1Ziag5

XXL Magazine: .@MCSerch has a lot of stories about @nas' 'Illmatic' days, and we asked him all about it http://t.co/HUFGppoR1C

Words by Daniel Isenberg ( @StanIpcus ) For those of us who love music, there are certain albums that we will always hold near and dear to our hearts. For me, Gang Starr’s fourth LP Hard to Earn , which turns 20 tomorrow, is one of those albums. I was 15 when Guru and DJ Premier released Hard to…

Playmates Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn Drive off into the sunset with March 2015 Playmate Chelsie Aryn Once Upon a Time in the West With Playmate Chelsie Aryn FEATURED ARTICLES ICYMI: FEATURED ON PLAYBOY'S INSTAGRAM Previous Article Next Article PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH…

It was the coupling that made a million grown men’s hearts race: RZA and Quentin Tarantino. The legendary producer would be scoring two films for the legendary filmmaker. Uma Thurman playing “The Bride,” a beautiful, badass assassin avenging herself by slaying an equally beautiful, badass slew of…

Roman Polanski revels in recounting the story of how he met his wife, actress Emmanuelle Seigner , to whom he has been married for 25 years, and who is the mother of his two children. The year was 1985, and Polanski was in pre-production on “Pirates,” the problem-plagued, big-budget adventure comedy…

Nicolas Cage, left, stars with Tye Sheridan right, in “Joe,” a character study that marks a departure from Mr. Cage’s recent string of action pictures. Linda Kallerus/Roadside Attractions BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — After playing, among other characters, a one-eyed dad who drinks beer out of his enemy’s…

Whenever anyone tells me that the ending to Steven Spielberg’s 2001 science-fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a cop-out, or that it slaps a happy face on the harsher story that the project’s originator, Stanley Kubrick, would’ve told, I think of Teddy. In the last 15 minutes of A.I. , a…

Spike Lee’s remarkably assured 1986 directorial debut, She’s Gotta Have It, didn’t just display promise; it promised greatness. It wasn’t apparent at the time, however, what form that greatness might take. In the years since, Lee has made just about every type of film, from enraged, socially…

Published: April 2014 It’s the dirtiest of fossil fuels. We burn eight billion tons of it a year, with growing consequences. The world must face the question. By Michelle Nijhuis Photograph by Robb Kendrick Coal provides 40 percent of the world’s electricity. It produces 39 percent of global CO₂…

Source: Stumptown Coffee Among coffee aficionados, the AeroPress is a revelation. A small, $30 plastic device that resembles a plunger makes what many consider to be the best cup of coffee in the world. Proponents of the device claim that drinks made with the AeroPress are more delicious than those…

They stain tongues green, red, and blue; they send blood sugar levels on Odyssean voyages; they induce brain-freezes that crumble even the most stoic men. Every year, 7,290,000 gallons of Slurpee are consumed worldwide -- enough to fill 12 Olympic-size pools. The beverage -- essentially frozen,…

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Not so long ago, images of a young girl washed over the Internet. She was impossibly blonde and impossibly shaped, and surely it was all a masterly work of Photoshop. Right? Michael Idov travels to meet with Eastern Bloc Barbie herself and discovers that her world is far more bizarre and twisted…

Gotham is one hell of a typeface. Its Os are round, its capital letters sturdy and square, and it has the simplicity of a geometric sans without feeling clinical. The inspiration for Gotham is the lettering on signs at the Port Authority, manly works using “ the type of letter that an engineer would…

Pat Schiller Christaan Felber for The New York Times Click the links in this article to launch multimedia extras including game highlights, video interviews and additional photographs. Last April 28, a splendid spring Saturday that fairly begged you to be outdoors, I spent all afternoon in front of…

ninety-nine glimpses The Everlasting Appeal of Princess Margaret A new book explains why the Queen’s younger sister has a story worth telling. by Hilary Weaver ninety-nine glimpses The Everlasting Appeal of Princess Margaret A new book explains why the Queen’s younger sister has a story worth…

The Ultimate Warrior, one of the biggest stars in professional wrestling history, died Tuesday, just days after being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. He was 54 years old. On Saturday night I scribbled down so many of the WWE Hall of Fame induction speeches, but with the Ultimate Warrior there…

Left to right, by Henry Grossman, Santi Visalli/Photoreporters, Burton Berinsky; inset by Elliott Erwitt/Magnum. As a Depression-era schoolboy in Monroeville, Alabama–where his mother had parked him with relatives while prospecting for love and money in bigger towns—Truman Capote inscribed in a…

Grantland: The Pixies, Thurston Moore, and alternative icons in decline, by @Steven_Hyden http://t.co/ya2NxDbM0E

Legends. These are the truly great, revolutionary products that change everything. They elevate themselves from being merely a design icon to a cultural icon. The Sony Walkman TPS-L2 introduced in 1979 is one of those legends. It's the first Walkman ever made and the first product I'm showcasing…

The old man set it up masterfully. He mentioned that his 67th birthday was coming up and waited for the “APPLAUSE” sign to flicker off. Sixty-seven. He’d been hosting a late-night show for half his life, he realized, so he grabbed an index card and counted up the shows. When he mentioned making more…

kfleminem: "Macklemore is like if Ascher Roth got really into @SageFrancis." Read why @JoeMande hates "Same Love": http://t.co/LurX88Y4iB

For 20 beautiful years, my homeland was open and (kind of) free. Now, I fear, it’s closing back up. “Russians Dancing at the Kremlin,” Peter Turnley/Corbis, 1991 ALMOST EXACTLY FOUR YEARS AGO I WAS SITTING IN A TINY kitchen in Kyiv with two guys named Sasha, drinking beer and taking bong hits of…

errolmorris: Katie Van Syckle in Rolling Stone, "Untouched by History," http://t.co/0KrMSTiXrS

Jessica Dimmock/VII, for The New York Times In an industrial section of south-central Nashville , stuck between a homeless shelter and some railroad tracks, sits a little primary-colored Lego-block of a building with a Tesla tower on top. The inside holds all manner of curiosities and wonders —…

W hen Bob Santilli, a senior project manager at UPS, was invited in 2009 to his daughter’s fifth grade class on Career Day, he struggled with how to describe exactly what he did for a living. Eventually, he decided he would show the class a travel optimization problem of the kind he worked on, and…

WARNING: This article assumes you’re familiar with BioShock Infinite, the first BioShock and both of their respective endings. That means spoilers and plenty of ‘em! Since its release on 26 March, BioShock Infinite has generated much discussion about its themes, ending and groundbreaking use of an…

VICE: Mascots and Child Molesters: My Summer Interning for a Minor League Baseball Team http://t.co/kjzo7y6BIt

GOLD IN THE MUD THE TWISTED SAGA OF JAILHOUSE BOXER JAMES SCOTT'S BATTLE FOR REDEMPTION by Brin-Jonathan Butler and Kurt Emhoff I. From No. 57735 to No. 1 "Professional boxing is no longer worthy of civilized society. Quite frankly, I now find the whole subject of professional boxing disgusting.…

With less than a week to finish my screenplay for the last round of a big screenwriting competition, I stepped on a train with two members of a growing activism movement called Effective Altruism. Holly Morgan was the managing director for The Life You Can Save, an organisation that encourages…

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