Life In 21st Century America
There is a targeted ad in my Facebook sidebar offering to sell me Mark Zuckerberg-style ‘executive hoodies’… and I really don’t have a response to that.
Journal of a Journalist
Links, Articles & Self-Promotion
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come, 1972 HQ HD (by jmannen77)
Just learned Jimmy Cliff’s doing a free show in Prospect Park on Tuesday. This is a good, good thing.
Uncle Bob plays Monopoly. (Taken with instagram)
Soho on a Sunday. (Taken with instagram)
Saw Martin Amis, Olga Slavnikova and Leonard Lopate speak today. #smartpeople (Taken with instagram)
Mass Transit Cameras Spot Bad Guys, No Human Judgment Required | Fast Company
Big story I just wrote for @fastcompany:
A new camera system for San Francisco’s MUNI system will use algorithms and machine learning to track and monitor commuters. Can computer programs predict bad guys… and what will they be looking for?
Nook De-Kindles Classic Books | Fast Company
Classic public domain books for the Nook now lack any mention of the word “Kindle,” because someone apparently did a global find-and-replace that turns every Kindle into a Nook. Better nook those lanterns, pioneers!
The whaling stations tryworks were unpleasant and dangerous places to work. One was called “a charnel house boiling wholesale in vaseline” by an early 20th century visitor. Its “putrid vapors [resembled] the pong of bad fish, manure, and a tanning works mixed together,” wrote Tim Flannery, who noted one bizarre peril: “A rotting whale could fill with gas to bursting. ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man.”
And thus, Wikipedia served its purpose.
In humanity’s darkest hour, when Floridians turned zombie, one man came to the rescue.
Hell… a Sham 69/The Expelled/Kraftwerk/Schooly D tape? That’s some oi!dancehop for the ages.
Flashing back to 10th grade, recording songs off old 7” singles to make the perfect mixtape for that one girl with the KMFDM sticker on her Docs.
Skateboards, shows at VFW halls and scamming cheap guitars any way you could. God bless it.
(Source: thedude----, via womaninterrupted)
Broadway’s been shut down for the Wall Street Run. You can walk in the middle of the street, never seen anything like it. (Taken with instagram)
Just wrote about this amazing tech for @FastCoExist.
MelaFind is a new product—adapted from military targeting systems—that can detect early stage melanoma with 98% accuracy. This is a real game changer. (via How MelaFind Uses Military Tech To Find Cancer | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation)
New Cyberweapon IXESHE Discovered | Fast Company
Just wrote for @fastcompany about a new cyberweapon targeting Taiwanese electronics manufacturers and East Asian governments.
Students Complain About New Dress Code at Stuyvesant – SchoolBook
My old high school has instituted an awful dress code. Way back when, I would have flunked this thing in a blink of an eye. Too many angry t-shirts and ripped jeans back when I was a teenage punk rocker with the mohawk/docs/leather jacket combo.
With that said, I ended up being pretty successful in my post-HS career. This policy is just goddamn awful.
North Korea's Kim Jong-un visits the zoo - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Crucial news from Dear Leader for the Dear Readers.
