News & Culture My Gucci Addiction In the past few years, I've bought eighty-one leather jackets. Dozens of boots and leather gloves. I've purchased pants that cost $5,000. I own a $22,000 coat. This winter I took a tour of Milan's Fashion Week (all expenses paid by Gucci, in appreciation of my many,…

noahWG: I wish @lenadunham would keep writing anything but "Girls." We know young people live in NYC. But this. This is fun: http://t.co/2C6V6O5kzb

The first and only time I’ve seen an owl in the wild was a northern saw-whet owl in a tall bush right next to the path by the lake in Central Park. As soon as I got home, I submitted my sighting and where to find the owl to a message board for New York City birdwatchers. Immediately I started…

Sometimes a single TV episode can exemplify the spirit of its time and the properties that make television a unique medium. A Very Special Episode presents The A.V. Club ’s survey of TV at its most distinctive. Comedian Warren Thomas used to say that nobody in the entire recorded history of time…

There's a blog post from the LayerVault folks making the rounds among interaction designers. It's about what they call “progressive reduction” , in which they change their interface over time in response to use, simplifying the way the elements appear. In a way, this is a moment in which Everything…

29pco: “The opportunity wasn't that we could shape this technology into a product but that we could shape it into anything.” http://t.co/vzmY6OCpQ6

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bsheridan: Simply amazing. RT @mims: @hamiltonnolan says what we've all been thinking about the founder of Treehugger. http://t.co/Btc2tKYaDd

goldenkrishna: Samsung designer Golden Krishna: 'Our love for the digital interface is out of control' http://t.co/1XPSaB3l15

alexismadrigal: "We might call it 'sadomodernism.'" http://t.co/i04A9voe80

Kelly, Giffords, and Diane Sawyer on set for the ABC special. (Photo: Ida Mae Astute/ABC/Getty Images) Diane Sawyer was again selected to do the interview that would begin the rollout. In its release, ABC had hinted that Giffords would participate—but the network got ahead of itself. In…

evgenymorozov: Colin McGinn's takedown of Ray Kurzweil in the latest issue of @nybooks is superb http://t.co/Cd3amiEqPr (alas, paywalled)

LisaMcIntire: Just superb piece about Dan Harmon, post-Community. http://t.co/YjdmIvimfI

Neuro_Skeptic: More bad news for Jonah Lehrer: publisher to pulp his book http://t.co/vGFoxfTCjO Here's my take on his downfall: http://t.co/7kbPwVNApN

newsycombinator: Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse http://t.co/5iilGN0Lsg

jimschachter: Smart reporting: "@latimeshiltzik: UCLA's cozy, stomach-turning relationship with supplement huckster Herbalife: http://t.co/c4nbnqdwq7"

A well-funded apology : Six months after he was caught fabricating material and resigned from The New Yorker , disgraced science writer Jonah Lehrer gave his first public apology this week in the form of a speech at a Knight Foundation seminar . You can read the full text of his speech here , and…

Maria Popova is a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, regular author for The Atlantic, and was named to the Fast Company 100 Most Creative in Business list. I let her know I was a regular reader of her site when I sent her an email a few months ago after she wrote an article about the dangers of advertising…

Maria Bustillos change my mind The Awl Be less stupid.

heavier_things: Those who have seen Django Unchained might like to read @The_Rumpus' very good five-part series on it. Here's part one: http://t.co/KLKhuLHV

Quartz Debate: The author of this piece debated the merits of an MBA with Quartz contributor Todd Tauber. Last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article questioning the value of an MBA but I could have already told you that. As a graduate of the 2002 Wharton MBA program and a member of the…

Choire Sicha Co-founder, The Awl. The Awl Be less stupid.

Following our recent post in Smashing Magazine , we received a couple of questions in regards to designing fluid layouts for email. Hardcore CSS trivia aside, the big questions came down to: ‘Can I use a fluid layout to adapt my design to fit in any-sized email client?’, and perhaps more…

For Zack Kopplin, it all started back in 2008 with the passing of the Louisiana Science Education Act. The bill made it considerably easier for teachers to introduce creationist textbooks into the classroom. Outraged, he wrote a research paper about it for a high school English class. Nearly five…

BuzzFeed is not just upending conventional wisdom on how Internet publishers can make money with its innovative digital ads; the lists, quizzes and posts it creates with advertisers show brands they can " actually create something people will engage with ," BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti told the…

nxthompson: "Lance Armstrong was not a man, he was an idea" @specterm angry. http://t.co/VYQcCUUB

When a Chinese ingénue, beloved for her comedy, doe-eyed looks, and middle-class charm, is tweeting her fans the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, we may be seeing a new relationship between technology, politics, and Chinese prosperity. Solzhenitsyn, who was less known for his comedy, doe-eyed looks,…

andrewrsorkin: My Column: Behind Lance Armstrong, An Investment Banker: http://t.co/dnBbC2wO