22 June 2017
An excellent review and historical contextualizing of Netflix’s new Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling show, by Mairead Small Staid for the Ringer.
22 June 2017
Police drag away protesters, some in wheelchairs, outside of Sen. McConnell's office after draft of Senate health care bill is revealed pic.twitter.com/uWRR0uJniY— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 22, 2017 Republicans: The party of cruelty.
20 June 2017
Vann Newkirk on the most famous American emancipation holiday, and why it must be celebrated: Juneteenth, rather, celebrates a belated liberation. Enslaved people in the Confederacy who didn’t manage to escape to Union lines or find themselves in occupied territory were not all made free by Lincoln’s proclamation, and had to await the end of […]
14 June 2017
An article about a cool thing with a goofy lede: An algorithm has usurped the traditional role of a designer to generate millions of unique packaging designs for Nutella. Emphasis mine. It’s goofy because nothing usurped anything. A designer created an algorithm to create variations. It’s just a different kind of design.
14 June 2017
Traces I is the sound of synthesizers wrapped in cheesecloth being broadcast from the last radio tower of a dying world… in the shape of a 5-track pay-what-you-can album on Bandcamp. I’m enjoying it a lot. You can contribute to the artist’s patreon, too.
14 June 2017
The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park is doing a live stream of their Amorphophallus titanum, aka Corpse Flower, blooming. This plant blooms once every 10 years, and during the bloom grows almost two times its normal size and emits a foul stench for two days before shriveling up and starting over. It’s pretty […]
13 June 2017
“Dinosaur Comics!” “Hyperbole and a Half” and “xkcd” are among the initial class of now-nationally-archived webcomics I grew up reading. The Washington Post: The library will announce Tuesday that the Webcomics Web Archive is officially launching at loc.gov as part of its growth in “born-digital” collections. The first phase of the webcomics online collection will […]
13 June 2017
Apparently Maciej acquired it for $35,000. Former Delicious community manager (and fellow waferbaby alumni) Britta Gustafson is running the twitter account.
13 June 2017
Indivisible has a complete guide to letting your lawmakers know that they need to oppose Trumpcare. Make use of it.
12 June 2017
A beautiful list of valid HTML colors which are also english-language words. There’s a poetry to how some of these match up; “defied / #DEF1ED” for example seems perfect somehow?
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