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Whom, I am thrilled to inform you, is dying. But its death, I am less thrilled to inform you, has been slow. According to Google’s expansive collection of digitized books, the word has been on a steady decline since 1826. The 400-million-word Corpus of Historical American English records a similar…
Dear friends and colleagues. On this quiet Sunday, I'd like to reflect on a few issues honestly and with good intent. http://t.co/fU6Q4Lm1jW
JonoMueller/flickr NPR has a new brutal but important story about rape in the military. "Dozens" of women told NPR "about a culture where men act entitled to sex with female troops." One woman, repeatedly assaulted by her superior officer, recalled: "I finally asked his secretary that when he called…
When I founded Lift back in 2005, it was nothing more than an abstract idea, an event that *might* happen. There was no value in being associated with it, other than true passion to contribute to the original vision. Because I had no event organization experience, I made the conference preparation…
Global info 22 Telltale Signs A Married Man Is Sexually Attracted To You September 21, 2023 Have you ever sensed that a married man might be sexually attracted to you, but you were not quite sure? … W
Call us bad hockey fans. Ok, listen. When the Canucks let us down, we let them know. Some call it “bitter” or “flip-flopping” or ” shallow.” It’s a love-hate relationship. Much like real relationships
House of Cards’ Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a high-functioning sociopath, somehow keeps viewers rooting for him. (Melinda Sue Gordon for Netflix) Features » March 12, 2013 The Netflix series’ cynicism shouldn’t be mistaken for considered political critique. BY Share Reddit 0 Print T he…
“… For Mallarmé the perfect book is one whose pages have not been cut, their mystery forever preserved, like a folded bird’s wing, or a fan never opened.” – Maggie Nelson, Bluets I have not read one of my favorite books. I’ve lied about it for years and although I no longer remember the…
The first and last Republican I voted for was Ronald Reagan. It was 1984, I was in kindergarten, and I’d never heard of Walter Mondale. I don’t remember the school-wide outcome of the mock election at my elementary school, I’m sure Reagan cleaned up with the 6-and-under crowd; we picked the name we…
Opinion Election Day results at Southern polling places reflected the same urban-rural divide that appeared everywhere else.Credit...Travis Dove for The New York Times Charlotte, N.C. IT’S tough being a Southern liberal. In the postelection analysis of the past two weeks, pundits have made hay of…
As a kid, I really wanted to play violent videogames, mostly because I wasn’t allowed to. My parents were adherents to the ESRB, a rating system that judged what games were appropriate for what audience, and I was forbidden from playing games with an M (for Mature) rating, the ESRB’s equivalent of…
Take the only tree that’s left, Stuff it up the hole in your culture. —Leonard Cohen Retreat to the desert, and fight. —D. H. Lawrence THE HANDLE, which varies in length according to the height of its user, and in some cases is made by that user to his or her specifications, is like most of the…
Evgeny Morozov's second book is a brilliant, confounding work of creative destruction. Evgeny Morozov delivering a lecture sponsored by Stanford's Program on Liberation Technology (Alexis Madrigal) in January, 2013. What critics of literature do not both love and hate the subject of their…
When Abby, a 42-year-old mother of two, gets knocked hard on the head with a ball, something inside her is shaken loose. And it’s not a tooth. Maybe it’s the recognition that she’s stuck in a sexless marriage to another woman (Julie Fain Lawrence). Perhaps it’s the dawning of middle age, or…
31 Days of Giveaways 31 Days of Giveaways—O’Neill Win the Jeremy Jones Carve Jacket and Sync Pant Gear Locker Apparel of the Year The best jackets and pants for 2017, based on the fifth annual Thread the Needle 31 Days of Giveaways 31 Days of Giveaways—K2 Win a Women's Freeride setup Powder Awards…
Home Tech Clockwise from bottom left: Find My Car Smarter plugs into your car’s cigarette lighter. Via Bluetooth, it sends signals to your cellphone about your car’s location; Loc8or Lite does not require a phone: it comes with a small remote that beeps faster when you get closer to the lost item;…
Building on this so-called Lindy effect (in the version later developed by the great Benoît Mandelbrot ), I propose the following: For the perishable, every additional day in its life translates into
A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. Quinn Norton's grand jury subpoena (Quinn Norton). Once your life is inside a federal investigation, there is no space outside of it. The only private thing is…
I don’t normally pay attention to token gestures, but Mar 1/Mar 2 are the National Day of Unplugging. I don’t know who is behind this idea, or how much momentum it has, but I really like it. My one experience of joining a Jewish friend to observe Sabbath was both deeply relaxing and…
Hunter Payne is what I imagine @Horse_ebooks might be like if it assumed a human form. He doesn’t let making sense get in the way of making art. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Florida-based artist has embarked on a variety of projects since dropping out of school over a year ago, each…
Let's Take a Tokyo Fashion Brea k March 10, 2013 Tokyo is a very special example of a Traditional City environment, because it is has so many fantastic neighborhoods, and also because it is very contemporary. It is not an "antique European village" sort of thing. Plus, people wear some really silly…
In which @tanehisi defines “asshole.” http://t.co/ZSelJBo9BO
American Chronicles Requiem for a Dream March 3, 2013 “This, I suppose, is the actual problem,” Swartz wrote, long before his suicide. “I feel my existence is an imposition on the planet.”Illustration by Michael Gillette HE COULD NOT deal with people talking about him. It’s taken me some time since…
For her long days, Casey McIntyre, 28, a book publicist, relies on “large coffees.”Credit...Deidre Schoo for The New York Times Every generation has its own anthem of making the journey from youthful naïveté to adult reality, whether it’s Neil Young’s “Old Man,” Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”…
The AV Club calls it “ridiculously long along with being boring and bad” ; Splitsider thinks it’s an “exhausted premise… good lord, it’s time to take a break.” But the sketch they’re talking about, SNL ’s “The Californians,” is my favorite thing currently coming out of Studio 8H. I think it’s the…
It has been five years since Lenore Skenazy walked away from her child in the handbag section of Bloomingdale's in Manhattan. She left her nine-year-old boy to make his own way home, with only a subway map, a transit pass and a $20 bill, in case of an emergency. The boy, of course, arrived home…
Article content BRADENTON, Fla. Travis Snider doesn’t normally think too much about the future. But since spring training began last month, he’s been looking forward to March 26. Traded from the Blue Jays to the Pittsburgh Pirates last July, the outfielder has yet to play his old team. And while the…
The baseball analytics revolution has helped us answer many questions that might have seemed unknowable before. We can now measure not only a pitcher’s velocity but also the exact horizontal and vertical break on his pitches, the precise coordinates of his arm slot, and dozens of other variables. We…
Courtesy of Zimbio A grammatically challenged man once said “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. For a man who has tallied 124 home runs over the past three years, repair is the last thing one would think Jose Bautista’s swing needs. But after sustaining a season-ending wrist injury, perhaps it is…
One of things Dan Slater reports on in Love in the Time of Algorithms is online dating’s evolution into “ social discovery ,” which is not a matter of algorithms and social media helping users find a romantic partner per se but about their helping users find people with common interests of any sort.…
Social media keep old friends close, but the Web used to be for strangers The Internet of 2006 was not much different than it is today, mainly less: a bit slower, sparser, less open for business, like your hometown before the strip mall got put in. It was on this Internet that I met my best friend,…
How Much More Does Taking The Subway Cost Today? It runs 24 hours a day — a rarity, anywhere in the world — and it moves 1.6 billion riders a year across the five boroughs of New York City. And on Friday (update: the new fare will be going into effect Sunday, March 3), it will become more expensive.…
Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house. As I went to speak with the driver, he threw the car into reverse and sped off, striking me and running over my right foot as I fell to the ground.…
Loco Steve/Matthias Rosenkranz We might have to choose between economic efficiency and geographic equality. Over the last 15 years, Amtrak ridership has grown 55 percent, outpacing population growth by a factor of three. It’s the fastest growing means of domestic transport, and shows no signs of…
“We’ve all done it,” begins one of the spicier dialogues in the new Netflix political thriller, “House of Cards.” Janine Skorsky, a veteran political reporter, is revealing to her young colleague, Zoe Barnes, how female journalists in Washington snag their scoops. “I used to suck, screw, and jerk…
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Tom Flanagan Is A Cultural Idiot March 3, 2013 I have grave doubts about putting people in jail because of their taste in pictures. Tom Flanagan on child porn The ignorance of the Harper conservatives when it comes to arts and culture never ceases to amaze me. Here is a man with a PhD, a former…
readingtechwriting Contents Wherein I rant at medium length about functional literacy and language competency in knowledge work and information technology. Look, I realize that we live in a TL;DR culture. I lived through 8 years of a non-reading president along with everyone else. I know that the…
Laughter, we all know, comes in many forms: belly laughs, chortles, snickers and guffaws. But if you’ve never heard what cynical, resigned laughter sounds like, just do this: Find a group of twenty-somethings somewhere in North America and ask them if they feel confident about their capacity to find…
The Fog of Innovation — that moment when you realize that the data you need to make a critical decision about an innovative idea just aren’t clear. Unfortunately, the data rarely are. For most large companies that find themselves lost in the fog, the default answer is to keep studying . After all, a…
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