Australia's Paleotronic is celebrating Christmas with twelve posts celebrating the best seasonal computer ads of the years between 1980 and 1992; today is day 1: 1980, in all its Coleco… Read the rest of the article: The best Christmas computer and electronics ads of 1980
The medical world is no stranger to shilling (see, for example, the kickbacks that Purdue Pharma paid doctors who helped hook people on Oxycontin, generating billions in blood-money for the… Read the rest of the article: Med students are being paid to act as Instagram "influencers" on behalf of cosmetics and other products
The supergeniuses at The GI (go ahead and carve out about ten minutes to marvel at their homepage, I'll wait — you'll thank me) have posted Shrek Retold, a fan… Read the rest of the article: Shrek, remade by 200 different fan-creators
High ranking German government officials were outed this year for secretly supplying advice and assistance to the xenophobic, violent, far-right extremist Alternative For Germany (AfD) party.
Forbes's Steven Salzberg rejects the claims of those who say that the House of Representatives will be made more responsive by increasing the number of reps to 593 (or so),… Read the rest of the article: A seemingly ingenious, simple solution to nonrepresentative government and gerrymandering
The Clarion Workshop, hosted at the University of California San Diego at La Jolla, is an annual, six-week, intensive writing workshop for aspiring science fiction and fantasy writers (I'm a… Read the rest of the article: The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy writing workshop is open to applications for the 2019 session
The Republican election of Scott Walker and his band of Ayn Rand cosplayers was a triumph of massive corporate spending, voter suppression and gerrymandering that meant that the votes of… Read the rest of the article: The GOP stole Wisconsin; now they're trying to steal it again on the way out — PROTEST TODAY!
Australia just passed into law one of the world's most censoring copyright law, which allows the country's media giants like Village Roadshow to use one-sided administrative process to get court… Read the rest of the article: We don't know how much Village Roadshow paid to buy Australia's new censoring copyright law
Kate "McMansion Hell" Wagner (previously) has put out a call for "the most nubtastic, gawdawful gingerbread McMansion in all of McMansion Hell!" (no styrofoam or support materials allowed) with prizes… Read the rest of the article: McMansion Hell is having a gingerbread house contest!
Creepbay is a beautifully selected catalog of online "creepy and cool" merch, skewed heavily to Etsy, though not limited to it: it's full of stuff that will probably end up… Read the rest of the article: Creepbay: the gothiest stuff on the net
The Girlfriend Zone is the place that women find themselves repeatedly and insufferably placed into by their male platonic friends, who can't or won't understand that the relationship is and… Read the rest of the article: The Girlfriend Zone: the inverse of "the friend zone"
Every time Trump reminds you that the stock market has experienced a feverish, tubercular bloom under his presidency, just recall that 84% of stocks are held by 10% of Americans.
Talking Heads frontman and all-round musical/art-theory/bicycle genius David Byrne has published a playlist of "Eclectic Music For the Holidays," recommended by the musicians in his orbit: a fine way to… Read the rest of the article: David Byrne's "Eclectic Music for the Holidays" playlist
Aella was a top-earning, top-ranked camgirl who performed sex shows over the internet for money, using the popular Myfreecams platform; she quit a year ago, and has written an incredibly… Read the rest of the article: Incredibly detailed technical guide to camgirling is a mix of advanced retail psychology and advice on performing emotional labor
Jack Poulson is the former Google Research Scientist who quit the company's machine learning division over Project Dragonfly, the company's secret plan to build a censoring Chinese search engine designed… Read the rest of the article: The top AI scientist who quit Google over Chinese censorship plans details the hypocrisy that sent him packing
On November 28, Conservative MPs removed references to assault rifles from the Offensive Weapons Bill in order to win support for Theresa May's Brexit bill from the European Research Group… Read the rest of the article: To save Brexit deal, Theresa May dropped an assault rifle ban
After St Louis police officer Jason Stockley, killed an unarmed black man named Anthony Lamar Smith with an unauthorized AK-47, planted a pistol on his body, and was then acquitted… Read the rest of the article: St Louis cops indicted for beating up a "protester" who turned out to be an undercover cop
Art Donovan (previously) writes, "Delivered. A very special design commission for the Project Director of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. A 'white glove' delivery, in fact. The first lamp in… Read the rest of the article: Astronomea: a gorgeous, handmade, astronomy inspired desk lamp
At the age of 15, Tavi Gevinson was the prodigy founder of Rookie, a latter-day second-coming of Sassy Magazine — a smart, funny, critical teen magazine that presaged the odd… Read the rest of the article: Tavi Gevinson is folding up Rookie, after seven years: part mediapocalypse, part moving on
On Making Light, Avram Grumer is compiling a list of real songs about fictional songs, like "The Time Warp," "Jailhouse Rock," "The Monster Mash," "Crocodile Rock," "Waltzing Matilda," "The Tennessee… Read the rest of the article: A list of real songs about fictional songs (e.g. "Jailhouse Rock")
