One day last month, the seven employees of Everpix gathered at their co-working space in San Francisco to discuss the company’s impending shutdown. Wayne Fan,…
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Speaking to a variety of teenaged boys and girls across the country, Nancy Jo Sales uncovers a world where boys are taught they have the right to expect everything from social submission to outright sex from their female peers. What is this doing to America’s young women?
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The first thing that occurred to me when I found out that I was going to get Grand Theft Auto V a few days before its release was that I…
Are tech entrepreneurs replacing Wall Streeters as the rich bad guys in the popular imagination? It’s starting to seem that way, at least in the media. The clearest example of this new rich-guy-bad-guy casting shift was the summer’s hullabaloo surrounding Sean Parker’s wedding. A fictional Parker,…
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…
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Recently, a close friend sent me an e-mail with the subject line “Things I’ve Noticed As I Get Older.” The ten numbered observations ranged from the mundane…
Ian Padgham / Via vine.co With nearly 300,000 followers, Ian Padgham is one of the most popular non-celebrites on Vine. His daily posts are a mix of silly humor and stop-motion whimsy and have won him a large audience and frequent mentions as a top Vine user to follow. Until last Friday, he was…
(Fox) A dialogue of nerdiness. To: Mike Konczal, Dylan Matthews From: Jim Tankersley Re: Chrismakkuh in August The most culturally important television show of the 2000s is suddenly 10 years old , gentlemen. Has it really been that long since Ryan Atwood stumbled into the gilded, troubled paradise…
Every Pixar movie is connected. I explain how, and possibly why. Before we go further, I should let you know that The Pixar Theory is now a published book. Since writing this blog post in 2013, I’ve been working on completing the unified theory in what I hope you find to be a compelling and even…
It was just over a year ago that I wrote a post here at Deadspin outing comedian Mike Burns as the man behind @DadBoner, one of the most popular Twitter feeds ever devised. If you're unfamiliar, the @DadBoner universe centers on the labors of a heroically optimistic Michigan man who lives in his car…
Sex Tapes Didn't Used to Disgust Trump By Olivia Nuzzi Sex Tapes Didn't Used to Disgust Trump By Olivia Nuzzi Politically expedient changes of heart are to be expected for presidential candidates.They’re just not usually about porn.Barack Obama was for gay marriage and then against it (and then for…
There’s this great moment in the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) when the world’s most celebrated sushi chef turns to his son, who is leaving to start his own restaurant, and says: ‘You have no home to come back to.’ Which, when you think about it, isn’t harsh or discouraging but is in fact…
distributed systems, startups, semiotics, writing, culture, management NOTE: This post was originally published in my previous blog. Because I am moving most of my active blogging onto Medium and this is an important post in terms of how I approach work and culture, I am reposting it here. It was…
Where will all the traffic go? Interstate highways running through dense city centers strangle the potential for those cities to flourish. The highways are falling apart anyway; let’s tear them down. The timing is perfect. The most loved cities in the world — like Paris, London, New York, San…
Sweet: Calm Pence doesn't take Kaine's bait, cooly defends Trump Pence and Kaine battled at Longwood University in Farmwood, Virginia, waging a proxy war on behalf of Trump and Hillary Clinton. By Lynn Sweet Hastert victim to lawmakers: Scrap time limits for abuse charges A man sexually abused by…
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On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined. Traffic to Netflix usually peaks at…
Bobby Hossain’s day starts early. Along with his family, he runs a food truck called Phat Thai that serves his mother’s Thai recipes “with a modern twist.” Although he won’t be serving customers for nearly 4 hours, he wakes up by 7:30am. He is working a double shift in the truck (lunch and dinner),…
My Brother, My Mother, and a Call Girl by Mara Cohen Marks My brother Danny lost his virginity at age 25. To a call girl named Monique. Hired by our mother. My mother didn’t bother asking Danny for his permission before engaging Monique’s services. She didn’t ask my father to condone the…
Eater sent Top Chef recapper and comedian Max Silvestri to Top Chef: The Cruise. He made it back in one piece to file this report:
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Over four days at sea, I see no one happier than Hubert Keller. The Alsatian-born chef and Top Chef Master has an armful of restaurants and James…
Homecoming This is the text of a talk I gave to Bloomington High School South’s gay-straight alliance in Indiana on April 24, 2013. The talk was part of Live Out Loud ’s Homecoming Project . This is a combination of my prep notes and my own memory of what I said. It’s not a word-for-word transcript,…
Taco at the sausage party Over the past few months, I’ve been lucky to get interviewed a lot (lucky, because it means I have something to promote, specifically, my little television program ). Nikki and I get asked a variety of questions, but we always, inevitably, get asked some version of, “What…
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Zack Greinke’s out until June, Carlos Quentin has caused 1,000 “What did they teach you at Stanford??” jokes, and everyone else is trying to sort out what happened. We’re half a day past the Petco Punchout, still trying to figure out what the final fallout will be. If you missed it, Quentin came to…
This past January, Dwayne Johnson licensed a project for his production company, a story about teddy bears protecting kids from demonic dragon monsters that attack while they’re asleep. But Teddy Bear , as it’s tentatively called, wasn’t a script or a novel or a comic book. It was a drawing that…
A few days later, the Internet Business Starter Pack arrived. Consisting of a single DVD and a 12 page glossy sales brochure that "could’ve been designed by some high school kid," according to Hansen, what most infuriated him was what the kit lacked: any indication of the actual business behind the…
Here are some attempts to describe “Weird Twitter,” gathered from around the internet: 1. “[An] intentionally wrong style of idiotic comedy” 2. “A loose group of Twitter users who write in a less accessible form, using sloppy punctuation/spelling/capitalization, poetic experimentation with sentence…
I was thinking of those Taco Bell stops during a recent week of travel. I had determined, as a way of avoiding the pitfalls of airport food, to be vegan for the length of the trip. This isn’t easy. By the time I got to Terminal C at Dallas/Fort Worth, I couldn’t bear another Veggie Delite from…
A Place for Sharing Ideas and Stories There is plenty of media in the world already. And no matter what happens to traditional media economics, there’s nothing to stop the torrent of information rushing from smartphones, corporations, and new-fangled media startups onto the Internet, available for…
Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams and Jason Goldman accept the award for “Best Blog” on behalf of Twitter at SXSW 2007. Photo by Scott Beale . This past January, two of Twitter’s founders appeared on Charlie Rose . After stepping back from the microblogging service — it’s now valued at $10…
Feminism’s Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in? Kate Losse ▪ March 26, 2013 www.katiecouric.com Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In isn’t the first social movement spearheaded by a Facebook executive. “Together we are starting a movement,” announced Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s 2007 F8 conference.…
All of us have experienced the unique sensation of having our guts move from their normal resting positions. Whether from a roller coaster or a dive into a pool, it’s a shared human experience. In fact, as humans, we go to great lengths to feel extreme versions of kinetic energy and the exhilaration…
The abject horror of the see-through yoga pants recall crescendoed to new, tragic heights when customers attempted to return their PG-13 garments. “I went into my local store to return my Astro pants,” one customer wrote on Tuesday on Lululemon’s public Facebook page. “I was asked to bend over in…
The buses roll up to San Francisco’s bus stops in the morning and evening, but they are unmarked, or nearly so, and not for the public. They have no signs or have discreet acronyms on the front windshield, and because they also have no rear doors they ingest and disgorge their passengers slowly,…
The first thing you smell at the Huy Fong Foods factory in suburban Los Angeles is the overwhelming aroma of garlic, a key ingredient in the company’s signature product: Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce. The first thing you see, however, doesn’t make nearly as much sense. In the lobby is a blown-up picture…
Why Developing Serious Relationships in Your 20s Matters Are you in your twenties? Are you an entrepreneur? Have you been told by your friends, your advisors, and your professional peers that now is your time to build your own life and not worry about things like settling down and having children —…
Comedy fans have been tracking Aziz Ansari for a long time, and across a wide variety of comedy platforms. He earned national attention on TV with sketch troupe Human Giant. He broke into films with Observe And Report , Funny People , and 30 Minutes Or Less , among others. He’s involved in…
Get the Kindle version: If you're paying attention to what's going on in the design world, you've probably noticed the ongoing debate around skeuomorphism vs flat design . So here's a quick test. Which of these two calculators feature a skeuomorphic design? Which of these two apps is skeuomorphic?…
But I wasn’t in Palo Alto. I started my journey in Los Angeles because that’s where Tesla’s design studio is located, a corrugated metal hangar just steps from the single-runway Hawthorne Municipal Airport where military contractor Northrop once designed and built iconic aircraft like the T-38…
Sam Byford: What are you up to in Japan this time — anything interesting? Craig Mod: I'm partially just kinda escaping. I like to take a couple of weeks at the end of the year and just work on writing projects that I'm working on in the background. I find the end of the year is a nice time — it's…
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