I'm opening this thread to share general links for excellent long-form journalism. There's plenty of it out there, and I'll add a few as I go from my personal archives...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/dying-alone-in-new-york-city.html
https://medium.com/matter/why-the-california-drought-is-all-your-fault-55f81a947ce2
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/online-dating-made-woman-pawn-global-crime-plot/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-10-01/children-of-the-yuan-percent-everyone-hates-china-s-rich-kids
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-americans-have-yet-to-recover-from-the-recession-2015-09-23?mod=e2tw
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/world/stowaway-crime-scofflaw-ship.html
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-trump-balloon
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-lost-girls/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/us/teenagers-jailing-brings-a-call-to-fix-sex-offender-registries.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/americans-gave-their-lives-to-defeat-the-nazis-the-dutch-have-never-forgotten/2015/05/24/92dddab4-fa79-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/22/opinion/sunday/24vaughn.html
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/how-to-catch-a-match-fixer
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-tangled-cultural-roots-of-dungeons-dragons
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html?_r=0
http://www.idsnews.com/article/2013/10/the-end-of-the-waffle-house?id=94816
http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21584311-elmore-leonard-crime-fiction-writer-died-august-20th-aged-87-elmore-leonard
http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly
A link from the D&D story above in The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dungeons-dragons-saved-my-life
Whew, not the end of the Waffle House franchise.
One of my best friends was getting her Masters and Doctorate at Bloomington, IN (before she got a more fun and lucrative job opportunity). I wonder if she ever ate there, or knew people who did...
very good long-form article / case study about the legal challenges of sexting and how society is trying to wrangle with it
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/why-kids-sext/380798/
excellent story about how far some people will go to follow their dreams
http://grantland.com/features/jon-solomon-profile-german-basketball-import-exposure-tour-international-players/
not exactly journalism but still very powerful
https://medium.com/@samgrittner/a-funny-thing-happened-when-i-was-typing-my-suicide-note-1c9d98f78935
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/world/europe/wwii-hero-credits-luck-and-chance-in-foiling-hitlers-nuclear-ambitions.html
Saw that. Never wondered how Norway felt about their role in WWII. Now, a small window of insight.
interesting article about how difficult it is to catch a 'swatter'
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html
What a dick. I get he's a psychopath, I just hate it for the people he swatted.
Rapes connected across 2 states, and someone remarkably recanting an actual one
https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story
Earthquake coming in the northwest
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
Putin knocking off his rivals
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/28/boris-nemtsov-death-fear-for-the-future-of-russians
Fatherhood, the hard way
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/05/16/a-fathers-initiative/
The guy that brought down FIFA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/how-a-curmudgeonly-old-reporter-exposed-the-fifa-scandal-that-toppled-sepp-blatter/
Ownership using newspaper reporters in personal legal fight - and who is Edward Clarkin?
http://m.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/judge-adelson-lawsuit-subject-unusual-scrutiny-amid-review-journal-sale
Everything you were afraid to know about Silk Road
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/
Russian Trolls
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html
Laid off from ESPN
http://gusramsey.blogspot.com/2015/10/espn-thanks-for-memories.html
Why Greg Hardy was arrested (with photos)
http://deadspin.com/this-is-why-nfl-star-greg-hardy-was-arrested-for-assaul-1739117634
Maritime Repo Men
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/world/americas/maritime-repo-men-a-last-resort-for-stolen-ships.html
Career Minor League player... a real-life Crash Davis
http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/mike-hessman-minor-league-home-run-king-retires-toledo-mud-hens-life-of-baseball-113015
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operations
and the fallout
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/what-happened-to-jane-mayer-when-she-wrote-about-the-koch-brothers.html
"Putin's Dragon" - ruler of Chechnya
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/putins-dragon
adding from someone else's thread
http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/stan-lees-universe-c-v-r.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/magazine/the-plot-to-take-down-a-fox-news-analyst.html
Eradicating the KKK
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/03/how_a_detachment_of_u_s_army_soldiers_smoked_out_the_original_ku_klux_klan.single.html
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 08, 2016, 12:56:17 PM
Eradicating the KKK
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/03/how_a_detachment_of_u_s_army_soldiers_smoked_out_the_original_ku_klux_klan.single.html
Was reading this a few days ago. Really good.
Mapping the cannabis genome
http://www.newsweek.com/marijuana-scientist-mapping-cannabis-genome-changing-weed-game-436526
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 07, 2015, 09:09:04 AM
very good long-form article / case study about the legal challenges of sexting and how society is trying to wrangle with it
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/why-kids-sext/380798/
Follow-up / related... life on the sex offender registry when everything happened when you were 10-years-old
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-accused-of-sex-crimes
The serach for life on other planets ramps up:
http://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-debate-signatures-of-alien-life-2016-3
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/magazine/the-secrets-of-the-wave-pilots.html
not as long as I'd prefer, but interesting mix of the "11 nations of North America"
http://emerald.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html
we've seen the map here on the site before, but the companion article gives you more detail.
How Nike lost Steph Curry
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15047018/how-nike-lost-stephen-curry-armour
All about how the underdog started running circles around the big dog when the big dog lost sight of what mattered and started taking their 'bigness' for granted as the inertial force that would carry the day just by showing up. Kinda like SBNation and Bleacher Report and The Ringer are doing to ESPN now.
Bill Walton
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/bill-waltons-long-strange-tale-of-nba-survival.html
Marketing Apple Inc 40 years ago
http://www.fastcompany.com/3058227/regis-mckennas-1976-notebook-and-the-invention-of-apple-computer-inc
A therapists insight into priests and their sexuality:
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/7/11325336/priests-love-therapy
the voyeur's motel
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel
why rural women are dying
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/04/08/we-dont-know-why-it-came-to-this/
How to buy college football players
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/4/10/5594348/college-football-bag-man-interview
The best quote - my emphasis
QuoteRemember, your job as a bag man isn't to hide the benefit. It's to hide the proof. In a region as passionate about college football as the American South, there's no real moral outrage when new cars or clothes or jobs for relatives appear.
"We can only get away with whatever's considered reasonable by the majority of the folks in our society. That's why it's different in the SEC. Maybe that's why we're able to be more active in what we do. Because no one ever looks at the car or the jewelry and says, 'How did you get that, poor football player?' They say, 'How did they get you that and not get caught, poor football player?'"
That article was a pretty big topic on the local sports talk when it came out a couple years ago. As long as I've lived here there's been allegations of just those things happening. The most famous was how much Auburn paid Cam Newton to attend. In the grand scheme, I could care less how they get their recruits. Everyone that pays even cursory attention to college football knows/suspects that this is how it happens anyways. So, no biggie.
The Minecraft Generation
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html
"history" of moderation on the web
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech
The "untouchables" - multination corporations
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/11/the-untouchables-zimbabwe-green-fuel-multinational-corporations/
the war's toll on one man
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/what-the-war-did-to-andy-19691231
Monica Lewinksy, 20 years later
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson
The Woman with no memory
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/susie-mckinnon-autobiographical-memory-sdam/
Shame sticks...so much to say...
I have to say I have never once blamed Monica for what happened. Clinton all the way; and Hillary for defending him and attacking her. >:(
Not that she doesn't bear some personal responsibility, too -- she made her choice for whatever reasons -- but he was the one in authority.
It was disgusting how the lefties treated her back then and rallied around Billy-boy.
Shame sticks but at least it doesn't leave a stain. Lewinsky had Bubba by the gonads-- literally and figuratively. She should've been able to turn that into solid gold one way or another. She should be getting $300,000 a speech.
Quote from: Sir Slash on April 19, 2016, 01:56:48 PMShe should be getting $300,000 a speech.
Maybe she's getting $350k for working with her mouth. ^-^
A good read on liberals and "knowing."
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism
The middle of nowhere
https://backchannel.com/the-internet-really-has-changed-everything-here-s-the-proof-928eaead18a8#.`
here's the Jerry Maguire "manifesto" from the movie, as written by Cameron Crowe and 'discovered' by the guys at The Uncool
http://www.theuncool.com/2016/04/25/jerry-maguire-mission-statement/
A look back at 2112 on its 40th anniversary:
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/04/30/476268876/all-the-gifts-of-life-40-years-of-rushs-2112
Charlamagne Tha god from 'The Breakfast Club'
http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/charlamagne-breakfast-club-hip-hop-morning-radio.html
Did not know this. Britney Spears has been under a court-appointed conservatorship since 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/arts/music/is-britney-spears-ready-to-stand-on-her-own.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/business/an-ayn-rand-acolyte-selling-students-a-self-made-dream.html
the cheater's guide to love
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/23/the-cheaters-guide-to-love
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/05/magazine/new-york-life.html?_r=0#/who-lives-up-there-living-at-high-altitude
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-bloody-mafia-war-in-montreal-isnt-ending-anytime-soon-2016-6
https://news.vice.com/article/narco-ties-embezzlement-and-topless-models-its-election-season-in-mexico
Chinese blockbuster movie goes off the deep end
https://read.atavist.com/sunk
HSBC's hacker who exposed their 'secrets'
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/herve-falcianis-great-swiss-bank-heist
Netflix
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/magazine/can-netflix-survive-in-the-new-world-it-created.html
I remember seeing quite a few articles 2-3 years ago all predicting the imminent demise of Netflix by the end of the year. They still seem to be doing alright (despite the shit content they offer in Canada.)
hoop dreams dashed
http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/lost-in-america/
The new Panama Canal
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/22/world/americas/panama-canal.html
There is no such thing as 'free will.'
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
Quote from: MetalDog on July 02, 2016, 03:30:24 PM
There is no such thing as 'free will.'
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
Ain't that the truth.
If there was no such thing as free will, "we" wouldn't exist to be better off believing in it anyway. :buck2: The analyses of the scientists arguing that free will doesn't exist, are themselves absolutely rooted in a tacit exception in favor of the scientists and their work. This ought to be a huge signal they're getting either their experiments or their conclusions from the experiment wrong.
But of course if even a little free will really does exist (no one disputes that a lot of our behaviors are purely automatic), that has massively huge logical implications, too. And ultimately religious implications. And the promoters of free will being an illusion, in modern science anyway, tend to have a vested ideological interest in atheism being true. When someone engages in a self-contradictory position that looks, on the surface, favorable to their ideology, that's a sign weighing in favor of them having salted the scales somewhere!
QuoteSaul Smilansky, a philosophy professor at the University of Haifa, in Israel, has wrestled with this dilemma throughout his career and come to a painful conclusion: "We cannot afford for people to internalize the truth" about free will.
Spoken like someone who not only accepts he himself has (at least a little) free will, but who is nominally treating other people as though it's true they have free will, too! Screwdrivers do not "internalize the truth" about anything, even if they're as complexly operative as Furbees, or a Windows operating system.
Yeesh, that whole article was like watching people blithely running a shell game while other people applaud them for it.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-prisons-corrections-corporation-inmates-investigation-bauer
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/
"went"? ::)
The story of a perfect bid on The Price Is Right:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a7922/price-is-right-perfect-bid-0810/
Aaron Hernandez's brother
http://www.si.com/longform/2016/aaron-hernandez-brother-dj-hernandez/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-lost-ones.html
Quote from: mirth on August 02, 2016, 05:52:21 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-lost-ones.html
That was tough to read. :(
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 02, 2016, 08:35:45 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 02, 2016, 05:52:21 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-lost-ones.html
That was tough to read. :(
Yep. Heartbreaking.
Reading the article makes him seem even slimier than the title would suggest:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/08/video-of-silicon-valley-mogul-kicking-his-girlfriend-117-times-could-send-him-to-jail.html
Expanding the Information Superhighway
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-bandwidth-bottleneck-that-is-throttling-the-internet/
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/slightly-more-than-100-exceptional-works-of-journalism/490622/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html?_r=0
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/jared-leto-the-unlikely-triumphs-of-a-rock-star-movie-star-w430833
Crime at Walmart
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
Quote from: mirth on August 17, 2016, 05:48:11 PM
Crime at Walmart
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
you beat me to it - I was going to post that this evening after seeing it earlier today
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 17, 2016, 05:54:12 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 17, 2016, 05:48:11 PM
Crime at Walmart
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
you beat me to it - I was going to post that this evening after seeing it earlier today
This thread has me looking more for good articles. A few of the reads shared here have been outstanding.
not as long as I'd like
http://futurism.com/mass-human-labor-is-no-longer-needed-where-do-we-go-from-here/
Children's literature
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/01/why-the-british-tell-better-childrens-stories/422859/?utm_source=atlfb
who killed Gawker?
http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/08/did-i-kill-gawker.html
Norm MacDonald needs a job
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/norm-macdonald/
Taking on the army
http://www.stripes.com/news/a-wife-takes-on-army-to-restore-husband-s-honor-and-acquire-his-benefits-1.424906
fighting the state for custody of your kids
https://read.atavist.com/a-family-matter
not as long as you'd like...
Parental responsibility, from 3 years ago
http://us.cnn.com/2013/08/22/opinion/granderson-criminal-kids-responsibility/index.html
Rise & Fall of daily fantasy sports
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/17374929/otl-investigates-implosion-daily-fantasy-sports-leaders-draftkings-fanduel
QuoteIn the weeks leading up to the 2015 NFL season, the two startup companies spent more on advertising than the entire American beer industry.
:o :o :o
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 24, 2016, 10:12:57 AM
QuoteIn the weeks leading up to the 2015 NFL season, the two startup companies spent more on advertising than the entire American beer industry.
:o :o :o
That's nutso. I remember last year how the ads flooded the radio and this year I haven't heard a single one.
Social media and teens
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/how-teens-use-social-media/
Quote from: mirth on August 25, 2016, 07:34:26 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 24, 2016, 10:12:57 AM
QuoteIn the weeks leading up to the 2015 NFL season, the two startup companies spent more on advertising than the entire American beer industry.
:o :o :o
That's nutso. I remember last year how the ads flooded the radio and this year I haven't heard a single one.
Good riddance! Those damn ads made me nuts trying to listen to anything sports related!
American Bison and football
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2016/9/2/12726546/buffalo
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/world/americas/colombia-cocaine-human-rights.html
45 years building a strange monument in the Nevada desert
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/michael-heizers-city
Having spent four years living in Moscow, this one resonates with me a lot:
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/10/the-cold-war-is-over (https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/10/the-cold-war-is-over)
Air Force One on 9/11
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230
the death of a sociopathic parent
http://www.elle.com/life-love/a39035/death-abusive-father/
fucking assholes
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html
An Oral History of the GI Joe cartoon show
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/gi-joe-tv-show-oral-928423
"Designated Survivor" actually tames down the reality of Presidential succession
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/designated-survivor-president-succession-doomsday-plans-214271
One day I'm going to write something this good. Maybe
http://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/mike-ditka-is-the-spokesperson-for-a-generation-that-cant-handle-complexity.php
Huh. I read that article and thought, "What a tool."
You can do better, Brant. IMHO of course. Your sexism article on the Front Pagetm was bounds better than that dribble in the posted article.
The human toll behind lithium ion batteries
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/
(already posted this before)
worlds youngest ex-dictator
https://www.buzzfeed.com/monicamark/what-do-you-do-with-your-life-after-youve-already-been-the-w?utm_term=.falx0NX5e#.wu1oW6NKM
seriously awesome sports story
http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/10/1/6872411/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-greg-maddux
Not especially long, but, I thought it brought up a good point:
http://www.vox.com/2016/9/14/12064226/marijuana-legalization-election-vote-california-2016?yptr=yahoo
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/06/liquid-assets-how--business-bottled-water-went-mad
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-white-flight-of-derek-black/2016/10/15/ed5f906a-8f3b-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html
especially this one
http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/10/12/will-smith-death-new-orleans?noroute=true
The airplane crash no one could get to
http://www.outsideonline.com/2126426/what-happened-eastern-airlines-flight-980
body cameras & transparency and maybe it's a little too much sometimes?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/magazine/police-body-cameras.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/sports/baseball/maurice-lerner-prospect-turned-mob-hitman.html
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/eight-women-in-love/
Just in time to be late for Halloween (...I mean my finding it, not the original article which was posted Oct 13, 2016):
Traveling Through Transylvania With 'Dracula' as a Guide (http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/traveling-through-transylvania-with-dracula-as-a-guide)
Football in a border town
http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/11/01/high-school-football-brownsville-texas-matamoros-mexico-immigration
when was America great?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/when-was-america-great/
labor & politics in Nevada
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/us/politics/latina-hotel-workers-harness-force-of-labor-and-of-politics-in-las-vegas.html
World's most mysterious commute
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/06/design/north-korea-subway-commute/index.html
Sibling Rivalry btw Magic and Heroes
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/doctor-strange-magic-superhero-movies/
Equity vs Equality (not that I buy the argument, but it's an interesting perspective)
http://culturalorganizing.org/the-problem-with-that-equity-vs-equality-graphic/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/11/19/a-texas-doctor-seeks-closure-for-migrants-who-die-crossing-the-border-from-mexico/?tid=sm_tw
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/business/economy/desperately-plugging-holes-in-an-87-year-old-dam.html
the iPhone spyware
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/how-bill-marczak-spyware-can-control-the-iphone
McD's as a social hub
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/mcdonalds-community-centers-us-physical-social-networks
the real problem with these guys is that they call themselves "journalists"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and-bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html
how we got here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/2016-election-blew-up-in-facebooks-face
leaving white nationalist movements
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/why-i-left-white-nationalism.html?&_r=0
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 29, 2016, 02:48:09 PM
the iPhone spyware
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/how-bill-marczak-spyware-can-control-the-iphone
Good article.
Making of Star Trek: First Contact
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-trek-first-contact-next-generation-crews-greatest-movie-949885
Quote from: mirth on November 30, 2016, 07:42:18 PM
Making of Star Trek: First Contact
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-trek-first-contact-next-generation-crews-RELATIVELY-greatest-movie-949885
The address on the internet was wrong. :))
how to piss off friends and take forever to get your album out
http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-12-01/the-story-behind-deliverance-by-corrosion-of-conformity
revenge porn lawyers
Star - watch out!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/the-attorney-fighting-revenge-porn
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 06, 2016, 12:13:23 PM
revenge porn lawyers
Star - watch out!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/05/the-attorney-fighting-revenge-porn
Is it revenge porn when a stripper drives a car through your house?
more one than the other
How to hide $400 million
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-million.html
Most coveted Nintendo video game
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/18121761/the-true-story-nintendo-most-coveted-game
catching up with Elizabeth Smart
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/21/gone-girl-2
how much is Google being manipulated into manipulating you?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook
don't read this in public. trust me
https://medium.com/@sophiesabbage/darling-mommy-might-die-e3449e4e1ddf#.y9rx6gx2m
not long, but still a good read
https://medium.com/@siguah/partys-over-ed6f844952a5#.bh4a0z3la
the day he died, and rebuilding his brain
https://medium.com/freethink/how-to-rebuild-a-broken-brain-41b237ce16fb#.l4c6so8pv
The stubbornness of WWII fighter design
https://warisboring.com/arrogant-u-s-generals-made-the-p-51-mustang-a-necessity-fd6063ff4893#.71gd3gwjz
How to kill a universe
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/star-wars-killed-a-universe-to-save-the-galaxy/
Hollywood vs Guns
http://features.hollywoodreporter.com/the-gun-industrys-lucrative-relationship-with-hollywood/
I've had a really good time the last few days during finals just exploring what's out there on Medium. There are some great recommendations on their front page, and exploring some topics have yielded some excellent off-the-beaten-path articles I never would have otherwise touched.
returning to a "Trump town"
https://medium.com/@abbievansickle/coming-home-to-a-trump-town-411aadfb4272#.4r3a47l17
this is an example of the fascinating stuff I've stumbled across on Medium
I find it well-written, vulnerable, engaging, and thoughtful
I never would've tried to find something like this
I'm not really sure how I feel about it all, but it's making me think, so that's not a bad thing
It's clearly relevant to my state at the moment, so there's that
The debate in the comment section is, sadly, not unlike other comment sections elsewhere
https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.3wzvdagi0
An Afghan boy takes on the Taliban:
http://www.gq.com/story/wasil-ahmad-taliban-fighting-child-warrior
hunting the mafia - and being hunted - in Sicily
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/25/europe/pino-maniaci-mafia/index.html
child abuse in today's military
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-child-abuse-military-20161229-htmlstory.html
China's 'iPhone City'
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-china-foxconn.html
Rise of sci-fi
https://electricliterature.com/the-rise-of-science-fiction-from-pulp-mags-to-cyberpunk-e00f6efdcab0?source=reading_list---writing------71-4---------&gi=39a71014ec56
Your classroom is failing you
https://howwegettonext.com/your-classroom-is-making-you-fail-f3c9e8a986d3#.xpjmhegv3
being a widow in your 30s
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/the-widowhood-effect/article33344335/
short, but hurts...
How To Tell A Mother Her Child Is Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tell-a-mother-her-child-is-dead.html?_r=0
being Black in Naperville
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-being-black-naperville-america-st-0715-20160714-story.html
Over 11000 rape kits collected, and ignored
http://www.elle.com/culture/a37255/forgotten-rape-kits-detroit/
QuoteLaw enforcement logged nearly 16,800 calls in one year to Walmarts in Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando counties, according to a Tampa Bay Times analysis. That's two calls an hour, every hour, every day.
http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/public-safety/walmart-police/
The ugly side of the NFL's return to LA
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14752649/the-real-story-nfl-owners-battle-bring-football-back-los-angeles
It wasn't just sexual abuse in the Catholic Church that the Boston Globe looked into.
They also dug into private schools, too
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/06/private-schools-painful-secrets/OaRI9PFpRnCTJxCzko5hkN/story.html
WWIII by mistake... not quite Wargames, but close
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/world-war-three-by-mistake
"Post-Truth"? Or just flat out lying about things. Talking US election in China
https://medium.com/@xuhulk/watching-the-election-from-the-post-truth-future-97a0d66bdcfe#.yyfzjekf6
Inside a Chicago gang and the gun violence
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/us/chicago-gang-violence.html
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 04, 2017, 12:31:52 PM
Over 11000 rape kits collected, and ignored
http://www.elle.com/culture/a37255/forgotten-rape-kits-detroit/
When DeWine became state AG, he made it a priority to get all untested rape kits tested. They're close to having the backlog completed, including the 4000 from Cleveland that were mentioned in the article.
http://www.cleveland.com/rape-kits/index.ssf/2016/11/state_crime_lab_finished_testi.html
A side article talking about relearning what we thought we knew about rapist.
http://psychcentral.com/news/2016/09/18/testing-of-backlogged-rape-kits-yield-new-insights-into-rapists-and-victims/109988.html
When the Canadian Army played professional hockey
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/sports/hockey/wwi-canadian-soldiers-national-hockey-association-stanley-cup.html
The mall and it's aesthetic in time
https://medium.com/@BillRoyce/baby-come-back-images-of-an-american-shopping-mall-before-its-death-8a6174af76f9?source=catalog_tab---------58----------
https://medium.com/the-mission/these-62-websites-will-make-you-incredibly-smarter-7eb89f122c2e#.tfhwgjca8
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 12, 2017, 06:15:59 AM
https://medium.com/the-mission/these-62-websites-will-make-you-incredibly-smarter-7eb89f122c2e#.tfhwgjca8 (https://medium.com/the-mission/these-62-websites-will-make-you-incredibly-smarter-7eb89f122c2e#.tfhwgjca8)
Grogheads didn't make the list? :o
https://www.thefword.org.uk/2017/01/i-wore-mens-clothes-for-a-month-and-it-changed-my-life/
Writing a musical with David Bowie
http://www.gq.com/story/david-bowie-musical
Reading letters sent to the White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/magazine/what-americans-wrote-to-obama.html
how Putin stole Russia
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/12/18/how-he-and-his-cronies-stole-russia/
the secret weapon in football recruiting... the graphic designer?!?
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18565611/meet-kenton-stufflebeam-ohio-state-buckeyes-secret-recruiting-weapon
can you turn a terrorist back into a citizen?
https://www.wired.com/2017/01/can-you-turn-terrorist-back-into-citizen/
this one might hurt to read. the NFL screwed this guy...
http://buffalonews.com/2017/01/27/finding-nittmo/
ultra-rich preppers
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 30, 2017, 10:20:38 PM
ultra-rich preppers
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
These places are nice for aliens. It will give them mummies and artifacts to study when they visit a long dead Earth.
How Image changed comics
https://theringer.com/image-comics-25-year-anniversary-the-walking-dead-e4774b7bffcd?source=reading_list---------39-1---------
Excellent piece comparing/contrasting two of the greatest tv shows of all time
http://www.vulture.com/2012/03/drama-derby-finals-the-wire-vs-the-sopranos.html
Football and assaults aren't just about college girls
http://www.si.com/college-football/2017/02/03/colorado-football-joe-tumpkin-assault-case
Why you hate the news
https://medium.com/@SeanBlanda/medium-and-the-reason-you-cant-stand-the-news-anymore-c98068fec3f8#.aaab1r76x
Fuck ISIS
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/06/the-desperate-battle-to-destroy-isis
http://www.newsweek.com/why-baltimore-burning-man-who-wrote-wire-328905
America needs an enemy
https://warisboring.com/america-needs-an-enemy-any-enemy-b826003113ac#.dpk3w94cw
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 08, 2017, 06:43:58 PM
America needs an enemy
https://warisboring.com/america-needs-an-enemy-any-enemy-b826003113ac#.dpk3w94cw
Russia is your enemy! Always has been!
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/school-lunch/
How a school administrator smoked Jamie Oliver
excavating a greek tomb
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-tomb-exposes-roots-western-civilization-180961441/
A missing US commando resurfaces 40 years later
https://magazine.atavist.com/mia
I'm going to have to read this one 2-3 more times before I think I'll have most of his points. Some of it seems superficially farcical, but I have a feeling there's a deeper meaning I'm missing just yet.
Either way, it's making me think, and I'm finding it fascinating
https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-2017-trump-edition-d189d24fc046#.jew1eih2s
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 13, 2017, 07:40:05 PM
I have a feeling there's a deeper meaning I'm missing just yet.
It's a certainty.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 13, 2017, 07:40:05 PM
I'm going to have to read this one 2-3 more times before I think I'll have most of his points. Some of it seems superficially farcical, but I have a feeling there's a deeper meaning I'm missing just yet.
Either way, it's making me think, and I'm finding it fascinating
https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-2017-trump-edition-d189d24fc046#.jew1eih2s
linked to this, and a fascinating comparison that I think is borderline brilliant in its analysis
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5nktdn/why_hollywood_is_really_freaking_out_over_trump/
or maybe I'm just punch-drunk on reading too many idiotic pre-curriculum essays...
https://warontherocks.com/2017/02/a-comparative-guide-to-russias-use-of-force-measure-twice-invade-once/
I'm not sure the quality of this one. It's long and I'm still reading. But I thought people would enjoy the read
https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb?source=reading_list---------28-3---------
OCD and the darkness
http://www.theplayerstribune.com/corey-hirsch-dark-dark-dark/
the life and times of Amy Heckerling
https://theringer.com/amy-heckerling-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-clueless-female-directors-ee9568144c24#.59jefwoav
Not so much 'journalism' but I wanted to stash for later
https://medium.com/hi-my-name-is-jon/how-to-become-happier-healthier-and-more-successful-in-60-days-1d21933b51d3?source=reading_list---writing------1-4---------
back-to-basics writing
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-writing-revolution/309090/
http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit
How pop music evolved
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/genetic-data-tools-reveal-how-pop-music-evolved-in-the-us-48ad60bf495b#.ccfqcxa4g
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 21, 2017, 05:36:34 PM
Not so much 'journalism' but I wanted to stash for later
https://medium.com/hi-my-name-is-jon/how-to-become-happier-healthier-and-more-successful-in-60-days-1d21933b51d3?source=reading_list---writing------1-4---------
It's pretty good; reminds me a lot of that thought piece you posted two new year's ago.
I don't know that I can do the whole 60 day program in 60 days, but there are definitely some nuggets worth incorporating. I like the side hustle idea...not sure how I'd do it, but it's a good idea.
Quote from: Toonces on March 05, 2017, 08:53:12 AM
I like the side hustle idea...not sure how I'd do it, but it's a good idea.
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs23.postimg.org%2Fdj84xvlxn%2Fimage.jpg&hash=23be0c94b1285af4e4541f6492d02f539634723b)
https://warisboring.com/the-origin-of-american-democratic-fascism-9ef1d70e7e02#.yuon9ai5n
Failure, Inc
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18791367/tim-tebow-relentless-pursuit-failure
double-murder in a small military town
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1106-a-town-under-trial
How Standing Rock fell
https://extranewsfeed.com/the-true-story-of-how-standing-rock-fell-69d0151eb5b2#.b0tz1h93t
ooof
https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/03/09/the-biggest-threat-facing-middle-age-men-isn-smoking-obesity-loneliness/k6saC9FnnHQCUbf5mJ8okL/story.html
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarcentral.com%2Fpics%2Fcbg.jpg&hash=7c6b322dfdd5a60d90c8b111f1ddac97ebd86a44)
Word's Heaviest Man
http://www.gq.com/story/how-the-worlds-heaviest-man-lost-it-all
Hip Hop's "drank"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-09/hip-hop-s-unlikeliest-icons-promethazine-codeine-syrup-manufacturers
what happened to the creators of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow/kerry-kevin-conran-what-happened/
Hacking John Deere tractors
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware
suing Facebook over Fake News
https://backchannel.com/the-face-of-terrorism-wants-his-life-back-c95cadf49aee#.kl77wrvih
videogames and the end of sleep
https://medium.com/@willpartin/videogames-and-the-end-of-sleep-19611ed1b8a#.fblqs85br
Lake Victoria is being swallowed by water hyacinth
https://medium.com/vantage-mag/the-death-of-lake-victoria-4f38526e2a56#.mn7rs7wvw
What's fake & what's real? A cancer walk, or extended vacation?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/31/health/hfr-paulette-leaphart-naked-truth/
not long, but very cool... high school journalists find out incoming principal is a fake
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/05/these-high-school-journalists-investigated-a-new-principals-credentials-days-later-she-resigned/
Where's Izzy?!
http://www.laweekly.com/music/wheres-izzy-searching-for-the-gnr-reunions-missing-person-7388840
fact-checking web-based news
https://medium.com/@holden/how-media-literacy-gets-web-misinformation-wrong-45aa6323829d
If you count yourself as any kind of military historian, you will love this article:
http://www.historynet.com/mentor-stars-story-little-known-general.htm (http://www.historynet.com/mentor-stars-story-little-known-general.htm)
tracking conspiracy theories
https://medium.com/@cambridge_uni/revealed-the-truth-behind-the-moon-landings-and-9-11-4bf8233b59d
the slave who escaped from George Washington
https://longreads.com/2017/03/06/the-slave-who-outwitted-george-washington/
Is Mark Davis as think as we dumb he is?
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19143486/the-story-how-owner-mark-davis-moved-raiders-las-vegas
Chasing Amy 20 years later
https://www.buzzfeed.com/shannonkeating/chasing-amy-20-years-later?utm_term=.cxWMDGoEp#.dsNgNk8GO
Some good ideas in this one
https://medium.com/@milenarangelov/10-ways-less-is-more-f61a070a65c3?source=grid_home---8---ideas---2-4----------
Quote from: mirth on April 20, 2017, 07:50:26 PM
Chasing Amy 20 years later
https://www.buzzfeed.com/shannonkeating/chasing-amy-20-years-later?utm_term=.cxWMDGoEp#.dsNgNk8GO
Fuck you. I feel so old now
Google scans every book. Every book
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
Barbecue is America's most political food
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/americas-most-political-food
hunting Russian hackers
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/inside-the-hunt-for-russias-hackers
what bullets do to bodies
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gun-violence/
thank God someone finally investigated this (and I mean in all sincerity, with no sarcasm)
https://theoutline.com/post/1409/saxophones-in-american-pop-music-history
http://bittersoutherner.com/digging-in-the-trash-david-joy
the President's "secret" Air Force
or "what you really need for a Presidential trip"
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/02/the-presidents-secret-air-force-215091
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 02, 2017, 09:01:03 PM
http://bittersoutherner.com/digging-in-the-trash-david-joy
This was pretty good. Sounds like a rough life. The author is a very good writer, you can tell he's a novelist.
interesting read here
https://medium.com/@MarkKoyama/geopolitics-and-asias-little-divergence-e5a103eb0d9b
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/sapiosexuals-people-who-only-have-sex-with-smart-people
shorter, but a really good read
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/opinion/our-mothers-as-we-never-saw-them.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/04/us/texas-border-migrants-dead-bodies.html
https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2017/abt/
https://www.outsideonline.com/2168646/how-does-entire-shipwreck-disappear-bolts-and-all
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-baseball-murder-20170428-htmlstory.html
soccer & civil war in Syria
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19343630/how-syrian-government-brought-soccer-campaign-oppression
Israel-Palestine, beyond the headlines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/16/the-real-reason-the-israel-palestine-peace-process-always-fails
"wasting time" = wasting money?
https://timeline.com/invention-of-wasted-time-mercantilism-e11df6f8dfa1
"my family's slave"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2017, 08:28:58 PM
"my family's slave"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/
OMGs but that was quite a read. I must have got something in my eye while I was reading it though...
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 16, 2017, 08:28:58 PM
"my family's slave"
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/
follow-up
https://medium.com/kang-blog/alex-tizon-rip-again-518c197db57
divorce ranches
https://timeline.com/reno-divorce-ranches-cowboys-c0539fa085b6
whatever happened to GenX?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 09:03:52 PM
whatever happened to GenX?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x
To be honest I'd never been sure if I belong with the last of the boomers or the first of the Gen-Xers. I'm coming to the conclusion that it's probably the latter.
Also, after everything I've had to do to get by in life (esp. for my kids) this quote stuck out for me. I'm sure a number of you can identify:
QuoteCoupland feels "neutral" about millennials, he says. "I will say that pretty much everything they say about millennials is what they said about X except that millennials seem unable to cope when things don't go their way."
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 18, 2017, 09:26:52 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 09:03:52 PM
whatever happened to GenX?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x
To be honest I'd never been sure if I belong with the last of the boomers or the first of the Gen-Xers. I'm coming to the conclusion that it's probably the latter.
Also, after everything I've had to do to get by in life (esp. for my kids) this quote stuck out for me. I'm sure a number of you can identify:
QuoteCoupland feels "neutral" about millennials, he says. "I will say that pretty much everything they say about millennials is what they said about X except that millennials seem unable to cope when things don't go their way."
Stagger, I think you are in the same age bracket that I am, 52, and I believe that makes us officially the last of the Boomers. I've never identified with the Gen X crowd, but that might be from being brought up in a military family.
The rule of thumb on GenX was always "if you were a teenager at some point in the 80s"
So if you were 18 and graduating high school in '81 or just starting middle school as a 13yo in '89, you're in that generation.
There's always going to be folks that sorry of float between generations. I actually have 2 uncles that really ought to count for GenX, not just by birth year, but by behavior as well, but can't bring themselves to identify with the same generation as their nieces and nephews instead of their brothers and sisters.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 19, 2017, 08:00:52 AM
The rule of thumb on GenX was always "if you were a teenager at some point in the 80s"
So if you were 18 and graduating high school in '81 or just starting middle school as a 13yo in '89, you're in that generation.
There's always going to be folks that sorry of float between generations. I actually have 2 uncles that really ought to count for GenX, not just by birth year, but by behavior as well, but can't bring themselves to identify with the same generation as their nice and nephews instead of their brothers and sisters.
Huh... never heard that rule of thumb before.... interesting...
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 18, 2017, 09:03:52 PM
whatever happened to GenX?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170316-whatever-happened-to-generation-x)
The Real World turns 25 this year
https://medium.com/@nilegirl/how-the-real-world-became-my-banner-for-reality-tv-e8f03ded7d32 (https://medium.com/@nilegirl/how-the-real-world-became-my-banner-for-reality-tv-e8f03ded7d32)
https://backchannel.com/how-fonts-are-fueling-the-culture-wars-f9d692101fea
Child marriage in the US
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html
Quote from: mirth on May 28, 2017, 11:18:30 AM
Child marriage in the US
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html
Call me weak, but I couldn't finish reading that. I started to cry too hard for personal reasons. The world is a shitty place. What the hell is wrong with people? Sick. I can't deal with it. It's called
LEGALIZED PEDOPHILIA. Maybe this is getting to personal, but I don't care. I have nothing to hide. I can't remember the 1st time I was molested. I remember the 1st time I was raped. Unfortunately that wasn't the last time. I was 14. (Interesting. Friction by Imagine Dragons is playing right now in the background. Very fitting.) A slap on the wrist is what they got. These a-holes are running around like nothing. I on the other hand go to therapy 1-3 times a weak. I have flashbacks, PTSD. I work and volunteer so much to keep busy. I read and listen to music all the time. I feel that my rapists are also thieves, not only my sense of security, but my natural thought process. They moved into my mind and honestly they need to move the f*out. I'm working on evicting them. I've been told this might never happen. Yay me... that's not cool. That's a life sentence. So, I'm going to go read The Little Prince to my baby and think happy thoughts.
Stolen Nuts
https://www.outsideonline.com/2186526/nut-job
Who Is A Parent?
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/22/what-makes-a-parent
Grilled Cheese chain got burned
https://backchannel.com/how-the-trendiest-grilled-cheese-venture-got-burnt-aa627b0c7ae1
Now I want a grilled cheese.
x-posted from the RIP Frank Deford thread
https://www.si.com/vault/1984/04/30/630220/the-toughest-coach-there-ever-was
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/31/us/a-mobster-a-family-and-the-crime-that-wont-let-them-go.html
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/06/travel/states-of-change/
Autistic adults accidentally caught up in porn investigations
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/05/31/downloading-a-nightmare
pics from Tiananmen Square
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/asia/china-tiananmen-1989-photographs.html?_r=0
the 1967 War in the Middle East
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39960461?SThisFB
2000 year old seed, and it still grows
https://timeline.com/methuselah-judean-date-palm-b3782ff1d731
Hey Windi, just like old times! :D
The Most Interesting Man in Beer Commercials
https://melmagazine.com/the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world-has-nothing-on-the-guy-who-made-him-famous-f427b02ebc96?source=grid_home---8------0-49----------1f79d9387f85&gi=7f2d26838639
What really happened with Vista? (little heavy on the tech stuff, but an interesting read)
https://hackernoon.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-4ca7ffb5a1a
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 05, 2017, 10:43:40 PM
The Most Interesting Man in Beer Commercials
https://melmagazine.com/the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world-has-nothing-on-the-guy-who-made-him-famous-f427b02ebc96?source=grid_home---8------0-49----------1f79d9387f85&gi=7f2d26838639 (https://melmagazine.com/the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world-has-nothing-on-the-guy-who-made-him-famous-f427b02ebc96?source=grid_home---8------0-49----------1f79d9387f85&gi=7f2d26838639)
This is a great read O0
Font wars
https://backchannel.com/how-fonts-are-fueling-the-culture-wars-f9d692101fea
Massacre in El Salvador
https://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-el-mozote-the-worst-massacre-in-modern-latin-american-history/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/blade-runners-designer-on-creating-the-future
What went wrong with Mass Effect: Andromeda
https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2017, 11:57:26 AM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/blade-runners-designer-on-creating-the-future
For the past few years I've thought that the stylistic heir to the Blade Runner was the remake of Total Recall with Kate Beckinsale and Colin Farrell. That movie really looks like someone just moved the Blade Runner sets 10 years further into the future and then turned the lights on. It's not nearly as good of a movie. I'm just talking about the visual/set design.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 07, 2017, 12:15:58 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2017, 11:57:26 AM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/blade-runners-designer-on-creating-the-future
For the past few years I've thought that the stylistic heir to the Blade Runner was the remake of Total Recall with Kate Beckinsale and Colin Farrell. That movie really looks like someone just moved the Blade Runner sets 10 years further into the future and then turned the lights on. It's not nearly as good of a movie. I'm just talking about the visual/set design.
Haven't seen it. I'll have to check it out.
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2017, 12:20:07 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 07, 2017, 12:15:58 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 07, 2017, 11:57:26 AM
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/blade-runners-designer-on-creating-the-future
For the past few years I've thought that the stylistic heir to the Blade Runner was the remake of Total Recall with Kate Beckinsale and Colin Farrell. That movie really looks like someone just moved the Blade Runner sets 10 years further into the future and then turned the lights on. It's not nearly as good of a movie. I'm just talking about the visual/set design.
Haven't seen it. I'll have to check it out.
It's worth seeing just for Kate.... :dreamer:
Quote from: Barthheart on June 07, 2017, 02:02:35 PM
It's worth seeing just for Kate.... :dreamer:
hell. yes.
(incidentally, I share a birthday with her :smitten: :smitten:)
Chapecoense coming back from tragedy
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/19444318/the-unthinkable-fate-chapecoense
consent, VR, and the future of porn
https://medium.com/@Sprott/consent-in-vr-porn-b83de7d4e39c
(SFW - it's an article, not a 'how to')
the end of a baseball team
http://buffalonews.com/2017/06/08/curveball-ubs-decision-cut-baseball-impacted-programs-final-season-everyone-involved/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/business/energy-environment/oil-north-sea-shell.html
"But mostly because of the Los Alamos lab's safety deficiencies, it hasn't produced a usable new warhead core in at least six years."
https://apps.publicintegrity.org/nuclear-negligence/near-disaster/
Some of Frank Deford's greatest hits:
https://www.si.com/vault/1985/06/17/622490/the-boxer-and-the-blonde
and https://www.si.com/boxing/2015/03/06/si-60-qa-frank-deford-boxer-and-blonde
https://www.si.com/vault/2003/08/25/348692/giants-among-men-exactly-100-years-ago-christy-mathewson-and-john-mcgraw-rescued-the-woeful-new-york-giants-and-helped-make-baseball-the-true-national-pastime
https://www.si.com/vault/1981/01/26/825311/the-rabbit-hunter-bobby-knight-may-be-tremendously-successful-on-the-court-but-off-it-indianas-controversial-basketball-coach-often-stalks-the-insignificant
https://www.si.com/vault/1999/05/10/260658/the-ring-leader-the-greatest-team-player-of-all-time-bill-russell-was-the-hub-of-a-celtics-dynasty-that-ruled-its-sport-as-no-other-team-ever-has
https://www.si.com/vault/1979/02/05/823356/hot-rod-is-hitting-the-road-again
this is as much for my personal record-keeping as anything, but that Bill Russell article is a must-read, and I've (somehow) never read "The Boxer and the Blonde" so that's on tonight's hit-list for bedtime reading.
a war crime in the drug war
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/making-of-a-massacre-mexico/
(just a warning - this one is hard to read. the pics aren't overly-graphic, but the stories are just horrible)
investigating a death in Florida
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/michelle-oconnell-jeremy-banks.html
An oral history of Predator
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/predator-oral-history-arnold-schwarzenegger-film-1014132
Quote from: mirth on June 21, 2017, 07:23:47 PM
An oral history of Predator
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/predator-oral-history-arnold-schwarzenegger-film-1014132
the movie that spawned 2 governors and a candidate for a third!
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 21, 2017, 07:25:35 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 21, 2017, 07:23:47 PM
An oral history of Predator
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/predator-oral-history-arnold-schwarzenegger-film-1014132
the movie that spawned 2 governors and a candidate for a third!
I forgot Jean Claude Van Damme was originally cast as the Predator.
Sonny Langham ran for governor of Kentucky
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/police-domestic-violence/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 26, 2017, 04:21:04 PM
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/police-domestic-violence/ (http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/police-domestic-violence/)
:tickedoff:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html
Quote from: mirth on June 29, 2017, 11:17:03 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/asia/hong-kong-china-handover.html
Yeah, I've got some friends who have worked and lived in HK, and every single one of them comes back and says "in the X years I was there, it's gone 'more Chinese' every year" and that includes a pretty high-ranking CEO (of a .com y'all know) whose sister is married to one of my best friends.
Creator of Ethereum
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/the-uncanny-mind-that-built-ethereum/
rebooting Spiderman
https://theringer.com/spider-man-homecoming-iconic-character-reboot-relevance-c4f24412caa5
Syria, about 8 years ago....
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-syria-temptation-and-why-obama-must-resist-it/
http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/high-school/semaj-booker-made-headlines-at-age-9-for-running-away-his-life-since-then-reveals-a-familiar-pattern-2/
Hunting Nazi treasure in Poland
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 07:25:46 AM
Hunting Nazi treasure in Poland
Do we need to hunt for the link?
Well worth a read
https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 07:25:46 AM
Hunting Nazi treasure in Poland
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/searching-for-nazi-gold
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 12:16:26 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 07, 2017, 07:25:46 AM
Hunting Nazi treasure in Poland
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/searching-for-nazi-gold (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/09/searching-for-nazi-gold)
O0
Political protest in the '78 World Cup
https://www.theguardian.com/football/in-bed-with-maradona/2017/jul/05/1978-world-cup-argentina-political-protest-goalposts
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 10, 2017, 09:38:41 AM
Political protest in the '78 World Cup
https://www.theguardian.com/football/in-bed-with-maradona/2017/jul/05/1978-world-cup-argentina-political-protest-goalposts
Believe it or not, my family GP was at that match. Being a good Dutch-American, he rooted for the Orange.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-exclusive
My apologies if this has already been posted.
the mysterious Phil Ivey
https://theringer.com/phil-ivey-world-series-of-poker-51cd56b8cccf
best 9-year-old basketball player in the US
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2017/07/13/in-neiko-primus-the-basketball-world-sees-a-phenom-his-mom-sees-a-kid-with-only-one-childhood/
Oral history of Meatballs
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/meatballs-movie-an-oral-history
^cool find. Variety does some nice pieces.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 17, 2017, 12:34:50 PM
Oral history of Meatballs
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/meatballs-movie-an-oral-history
That's a fun read..... need to watch the movie again.... soon....
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-real-reason-why-joss-whedon-named-his-space-western-1614273050
the war for your attention
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-enemy-in-our-feeds-e86511488de
becoming a statistic
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/24/the-life-of-a-south-central-statistic
surviving the most-talked-about plane crash in South America
https://www.si.com/longform/2017/chapecoense-brazil-soccer-plane-crash-tragedy-survivors/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/magazine/she-was-convicted-of-killing-her-mother-prosecutors-withheld-the-evidence-that-would-have-freed-her.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engineers-steering-nasas-voyager-probes-across-the-universe.html
the 5'2" girl who saved a football season
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/20229005/high-school-girl-saves-football-season-fading-texas-town
That voyager article was really good, mirth.
not too long, but a good read on a former user/dealer fighting addiction overdoses
https://medium.com/@zacharyasiegel/how-a-group-of-rebels-are-taking-on-americas-addiction-epidemic-7af6c8f07267
Interview with Woody Harrelson
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-harrelson-how-he-went-anonymous-poor-supervillain-1019913
Quote from: mirth on August 13, 2017, 02:32:47 PM
Interview with Woody Harrelson
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-harrelson-how-he-went-anonymous-poor-supervillain-1019913
good read, thanks
living in another kind of clouds
https://www.outsideonline.com/2231051/living-cloud
H.O.L.Y. Fuck.
http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/tampa-electric/big-bend-hellfire-from-above/
QuoteWorkers were trying to remove a blockage from a 30-foot-tall tank beneath the power plant's boiler. The tank catches the molten ash that forms when coal burns — called slag — and cools it into harmless pebbles.
Because Tampa Electric kept the unit running, hot slag was building up overhead while the workers cleaned out the tank below.
The slag was supposed to stay trapped in the boiler. Instead, it poured down on the men.
^Goddamn. I hope someone goes to prison for that.
starting a new basketball league
https://www.theringer.com/sports/2017/8/23/16184910/champions-basketball-league-launch-delay
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/afghanistan-graveyard-empires-historical-pictures.html
death of a hockey player
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/09/02/hockey-pro-dies-and-coach-said-raped-him-free/fRGNZ0cZaUOcj5WtVI9GeO/story.html
More ATF problems
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/atf-tobacco-cigarettes.html
The Cajun Navy
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/I-downloaded-an-app-And-suddenly-I-was-talking-12172506.php
You can't un-read this story, and you won't want to
One week of heroin
http://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days-of-heroin-epidemic-cincinnati/
Batman: The Animated Series at 25
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-animated-series-hirings-firings-last-minute-changes-1035120
Brazil's Confederados
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gq8ae9/welcome-to-americana-brazil-0000580-v22n2
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-i-hacked-hundreds-of-companies-through-their-helpdesk-b7680ddc2d4c
Remember reading magazines?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/business/media/the-not-so-glossy-future-of-magazines.html
Digital lynch mobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/magazine/how-fake-news-turned-a-small-town-upside-down.html
Air Force missileers
Yes, from Marie Claire
http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a29275/air-force-nuclear-missileers/
The costs of college
https://story.californiasunday.com/cost-of-college
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-ever-happened-to-russian-revolution-180964768/
http://reprints.longform.org/death-of-a-playmate
team-mates
https://theathletic.com/113671/2017/09/29/gammons-on-david-price-and-the-definition-of-what-it-means-to-be-a-good-teammate/
when TRL ruled Times Square.
https://www.theringer.com/music/2017/10/2/16394708/trl-behind-the-scenes
and MTV actually played videos!
https://medium.com/bbc-news-labs/beyond-800-words-new-digital-story-formats-for-news-ab9b2a2d0e0d
Scraping by in West Virginia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/disabled-and-scraping-by-in-the-underground-economy/2017/10/06/4ebcf4f2-8102-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?utm_term=.11720dfdc21a
^ That's some tough livin'. I mean, Milwaulkie's Best? #:-)
Quote from: Toonces on October 09, 2017, 09:44:13 AM
^ That's some tough livin'. I mean, Milwaulkie's Best? #:-)
Is that for when they can't afford
Milwaulkee's Best
I knew it didn't look right, but autocorrect didn't catch it for some reason. ::)
Quote from: Toonces on October 09, 2017, 01:23:43 PM
I knew it didn't look right, but autocorrect didn't catch it for some reason. ::)
sometimes spellcheck doesn't go for capitalized words, figuring names are all over the place
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/arts/music/robert-plant-carry-fire.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/south-carolina-jail-no-lawyer.html
Quote from: mirth on October 12, 2017, 07:07:46 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/south-carolina-jail-no-lawyer.html
Having lived in South Carolina for almost five years, and still having friends in the law enforcement Community there, it is no surprise at all to me that it is generally a disaster once someone enters the system
not truly journalism, but still a good read
https://ofteninspired.com/pawn-gun
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-trek-story-daring-cliffhanger-803642
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html
here's one to piss you off
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 16, 2017, 11:33:13 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-israel-russia-hacking.html)
read that the other day. Hope people figure out that using Russian AV software might not be a great plan.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 16, 2017, 11:34:47 AM
here's one to piss you off
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/)
Saw that too :pullhair:
another nut-job secret society?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/nyregion/nxivm-women-branded-albany.html?_r=0
Southern rural ruins
http://bittersoutherner.com/rural-ruins-vanishing-south-georgia
https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars
TL;DR - don't buy a Casper
https://www.gq.com/story/kim-jong-nam-accidental-assassination
Killing Kim Jong-nam
Mirth has hope again...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/hook-line-and-sinker/542748/
intentional physical violence in a white supremacist group
https://www.propublica.org/article/white-hate-group-campaign-of-menace-rise-above-movement
when $4 + $4 = $365
https://www.propublica.org/article/horizon-pharma-vimovo-common-medication-455-million-specialty-pill
The family that's profiting from the Opiod crisis
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/
QuoteTHE FAMILY'S LEADERS HAVE PULLED OFF THREE OF THE GREAT MARKETING TRIUMPHS OF THE MODERN ERA: THE FIRST IS SELLING OXYCONTIN; THE SECOND IS PROMOTING THE SACKLER NAME; AND THE THIRD IS ENSURING THAT, AS FAR AS THE PUBLIC IS AWARE, THE FIRST AND THE SECOND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ONE ANOTHER.
also in the same article
Quote"The Fords, Hewletts, Packards, Johnsons—all those families put their name on their product because they were proud," said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine who has written extensively about the opioid crisis. "The Sacklers have hidden their connection to their product. They don't call it 'Sackler Pharma.' They don't call their pills 'Sackler pills.' And when they're questioned, they say, 'Well, it's a privately held firm, we're a family, we like to keep our privacy, you understand.' "
and
Quotebecame one of the first inductees into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame.
what does it say about our country that we even
have a "Medical Advertising Hall of Fame"
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 23, 2017, 10:12:54 AM
what does it say about our country that we even have a "Medical Advertising Hall of Fame"
That we're fooked.
Yer country treats health care as an industry... you really are fooked....
Quote from: Barthheart on October 23, 2017, 10:31:43 AM
Yer country treats health care as an industry... you really are fooked....
And now I am forced to participate or pay a fine. Murica!
Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2017, 10:43:30 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on October 23, 2017, 10:31:43 AM
Yer country treats health care as an industry... you really are fooked....
And now I am forced to participate or pay a fine. Murica!
So start smoking and get yer money's worth! O0
https://www.ourstate.com/hart-square-village/
preserving a ghost town
Quote from: bbmike on October 23, 2017, 10:50:45 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 23, 2017, 10:43:30 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on October 23, 2017, 10:31:43 AM
Yer country treats health care as an industry... you really are fooked....
And now I am forced to participate or pay a fine. Murica!
So start smoking and get yer money's worth! O0
My new liver is going to make it all worthwhile.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/on-safari-in-trumps-america/543288/
a weekend with the preppers
https://melmagazine.com/the-doomsday-preppers-time-has-finally-come-f51059683968
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 26, 2017, 08:05:04 PM
a weekend with the peppers
The bell peppers? The Dr Peppers?
Quote from: mirth on October 26, 2017, 08:55:40 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on October 26, 2017, 08:05:04 PM
a weekend with the peppers
The bell peppers? The Dr Peppers?
apparently autocorrect doesn't recognize "preppers"
Those Atlantic articles are like Lays potato chips.
This article really resonated with me, and the challenges I'm facing with my 15 year-old and his phone/social media/etc.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
we've had these issues in our house
https://longreads.com/2017/10/26/no-fatties-when-healthcare-hurts/
Quote from: Toonces on October 27, 2017, 07:24:26 AM
This article really resonated with me, and the challenges I'm facing with my 15 year-old and his phone/social media/etc.
you really ought to read this one
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/why-kids-sext/380798/
https://harpers.org/archive/2017/11/pushing-the-limit/?src=longreads
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/movies/star-wars-the-last-jedi-luke-skywalker-mark-hamill.html
Kid genius
https://magazine.atavist.com/promethea-unbound-child-genius-montana?src=longreads
https://theestablishment.co/what-its-like-to-be-a-female-war-correspondent-in-the-middle-east-6c410e326463
talking about rape in 'football culture'
https://www.theringer.com/features/2017/11/6/16599528/brenda-tracy-advocate-against-college-football-rape-culture
email bombs
https://www.propublica.org/article/cheap-tricks-the-low-cost-of-internet-harassment
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 10, 2017, 08:36:49 AM
email bombs
https://www.propublica.org/article/cheap-tricks-the-low-cost-of-internet-harassment
Ugh. That intro rubbed me totally the wrong way. I don't care if her poor widdle arms were tingling from overexertion in typing and really don't give a shite about her yoga poses. That's some crap reporting, there.
^ Somebody didn't read past the first paragraph. ::)
Quote from: Toonces on November 10, 2017, 01:26:07 PM
^ Somebody didn't read past the first paragraph. ::)
QuoteIt was 10 a.m. on a hot, humid Tuesday in August when I decided I could finally relax. After a frantic weekend of finishing a big story — and typing so much that my forearms tingled — I needed to decompress.
Yep.
I get embellishment - hell I do it all the time, but I don't consider my pieces to be anywhere near quality journalism.
Maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old man.
Maybe?
holy shit
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html?_r=0
Bride of the Jihad
https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-convert/
Playing hockey in North Korea
https://theathletic.com/132538/2017/10/20/north-korea-hockey-friendship-league-alex-frecon-scott-howe/
religious betrayal?
https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/01/03/washington-dc-peeping-rabbi-barry-freundel-voyeurism-case/
tracking backwards thru Pizzagate
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/pizzagate-anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-w511904
Teaching about war
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/teaching-students-about-war/545351/
making an American nazi
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/
https://www.wired.com/story/how-one-womans-digital-life-was-weaponized-against-her/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/movies/the-shape-of-water-meet-guillermo-del-toro-doug-jones.html
where everyone got into college?
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/11/28/564054556/what-really-happened-at-the-school-where-every-senior-got-into-college
Admiral's son and opioid addiction (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/11/an-epidemic-from-which-no-one-is-safe/546773/?utm_source=grogheads)
an excellent thread on Twitter about journalism's place in society, along with some predictably trollish responses
click thru to read the rest of the thread
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/935920379612352512
pregnant & addicted
https://medium.com/@rachelmabe/pregnant-and-addicted-ed5885afbbdb
the short version of "What Color is Your Parachute"
https://betterhumans.coach.me/the-japanese-concept-ikigai-is-a-formula-for-happiness-and-meaning-8e497e5afa99
payback is a bitch
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-are-hounded-for-debt-they-don-t-owe-one-victim-fought-back-with-a-vengeance
^good read
(multiple articles)
Homelessness on the West Coast
https://apnews.com/tag/HomelessCrisis
North Korean Ghost Ships
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/world/asia/japan-north-korea-ghost-ships.html
University of Adidas at Louisville
http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/21710106/louisville-athletic-director-tom-jurich-leveraged-big-deals-build-university-sports-powerhouse-only-watch-burn-amid-charges-excess
https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/12/10/best-journalism-writing-reporting-2017-media-circus
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 11, 2017, 10:11:22 AM
https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/12/10/best-journalism-writing-reporting-2017-media-circus
That's going to keep me busy for awhile.
Death of the Movies
https://www.gq.com/story/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html)
Quote from: trailrunner on December 17, 2017, 08:34:27 PM
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html)
that's kinda cool :)
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 17, 2017, 08:42:03 PM
Quote from: trailrunner on December 17, 2017, 08:34:27 PM
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/11/travel/atl24/index.html)
that's kinda cool :)
Yeah, I love reading about the world behind the scenes.
Tough read
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html
https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html
Quote from: mirth on December 21, 2017, 04:57:16 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html
I thought you didn't believe in climate change, since we couldn't actually observe its effects.... ::)
Quote from: bayonetbrant on December 21, 2017, 06:22:08 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 21, 2017, 04:57:16 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/jakarta-sinking-climate.html)
I thought you didn't believe in climate change, since we couldn't actually observe its effects.... ::)
What the fuck are you talking about? :uglystupid2:
this one really hurts to read
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/12/21/56-miles-from-temptation-disabled-addicted-and-desperately-trying-to-save-their-marriage/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html
Quote from: mirth on December 18, 2017, 11:49:05 PM
Tough read
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html
That was an extremely long article! Lol, more like a short story! But what I did read of it was extremely interesting. I'm always fascinated with everest, and why people risk their lives to get to the top. That was heartbreaking though, for the family's left behind when the person climbing everest dies, so sad.
The video clips and pics of the mountain were awesome, really spectacular :dreamer: enjoyed the perusal O0
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/world/europe/north-korea-poland-workers.html
not as long as I'd prefer, but very interesting
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/science/native-americans-beringia-siberia.html
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 04, 2018, 08:49:44 AM
not as long as I'd prefer, but very interesting
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/science/native-americans-beringia-siberia.html
It was an interesting read , I like a good archaeological dig ! We studied Native American history in highschool ...in history , go figure ! And I've always had a fascination with their culture and way of life , even before I studied it in school . I thought the map was a great addition to that article , showing the lost land mass of Beringia . I've heard the theory before that they came across a land bridge from Siberia , that has long since disappeared , but it's cool to have that theory confirmed in their dna . I enjoyed the read O0
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-times-reporter-in-the-shadow-of-the-war-on-terror/
Frankie Lymon
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/teen-idol-frankie-lymon-tragic-rise-fall-tells-truth-1950s-america-180967506/
fighting against addiction counseling scams
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/27/business/drug-addiction-ads.html
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 05, 2018, 10:51:09 AM
Frankie Lymon
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/teen-idol-frankie-lymon-tragic-rise-fall-tells-truth-1950s-america-180967506/
That's so sad , I had no idea he died so young from heroin addiction :'( I've watched that black and white clip before on YouTube of him singing . Every time I see the 'T' on the jumpers , it makes me think of the t-birds from grease ! I know it stands for teenagers though in this case ! I've seen one clip of him singing , and you can see some of the girls in the audience pulling a face . It's very sad that he had to deal with that kind of racism .As did a lot of others .
cracks in the Patriots?
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/hotread180105/beginning-end-new-england-patriots-robert-kraft-tom-brady-bill-belichick-internal-power-struggle
Ring around the lost colony
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-roanoke-endures-yet-another-cruel-twist-180962837/?utm_source=keywee-facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=keywee&kwp_0=412981&kwp_4=2119315&kwp_1=885363
^I like a good archeological plot twist ! Good article . I've been to Sir Francis Drake's home in Devon , legend has it , that he was supposed to be playing bowls on his front lawn when the Spanish Armada was spotted ( from st michaels mount in penzance .Ive been there too ) I have a small wooden ornament that I bought from the gift shop at Drakes house . It's carved from a yew tree that was standing in Drake's day .Apparently there was a storm that brought a row of yew trees down , and the trust that owns the house decided to use the wood for carvings to make money for the estate . I liked the map in the article of some of the NC coastline , and the sailing ship on the map looks great .
seceding in Mexico
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/world/americas/mexico-state-corruption.html
RT: Media outlet, or Russian Propaganda Weapon?
https://medium.com/dfrlab/question-that-rts-military-mission-4c4bd9f72c88
Quote from: bayonetbrant on January 08, 2018, 11:24:43 AM
RT: Media outlet, or Russian Propaganda Weapon?
https://medium.com/dfrlab/question-that-rts-military-mission-4c4bd9f72c88
Is that even a question? It's pretty obviously a propaganda tool for the Russian government. I think everyone outside of Russia gets that.
yea, but these guys have actual evidence to demonstrate it
Sorta like proving water is wet.
Quote from: Emeraldlis on December 29, 2017, 09:06:00 AM
Quote from: mirth on December 18, 2017, 11:49:05 PM
Tough read
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html
That was an extremely long article! Lol, more like a short story! But what I did read of it was extremely interesting. I'm always fascinated with everest, and why people risk their lives to get to the top. That was heartbreaking though, for the family's left behind when the person climbing everest dies, so sad.
The video clips and pics of the mountain were awesome, really spectacular :dreamer: enjoyed the perusal O0
Agreed, that was a really good article. I didn't find it all that tough to read. I'm empathetic with those families that were left behind, but those guys knew what they were getting themselves into. In fact, I was a bit pissed that they didn't discuss what to do if they died with their families.
Igor Larionov's daughter and her struggle with anorexia
https://theathletic.com/195738/2018/01/08/alyonka-larionov-an-untitled-female-no-more/
http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/22046031/michigan-state-university-doctor-larry-nassar-surrounded-enablers-abused-athletes-espn
not too long, but kinda cool
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-stories-behind-brian-griffins-portraits-of-seventies-and-eighties-rock-stars
in the event of a real nuclear attack...
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15157970/america-nuclear-bomb-plan/
the fall of Uber's CEO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought
richest farmer in America
https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/sunday/nfl-cte-brain-damage.html
life after Steve McNair
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22349868/the-family-tennessee-titans-legend-steve-mcnair-left-behind
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/groundhog-day-at-25-bill-murray-1202691391/
ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-rakhine-events/
not super-long, but a great read
https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2018/02/life-in-the-woods-north-carolinas-growing-homeless-tent-camps-are-an-open-secret/
ideological infighting at Facebook
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/
reporting while female
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/reporting-female-harassment-journalism.php
A childhood on the run... for a hoax?
http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42951788
Monica Lewinsky looking back on 20 years
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo
The room-mate from hell
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/jamison-bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 17, 2018, 08:32:56 PM
not super-long, but a great read
https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2018/02/life-in-the-woods-north-carolinas-growing-homeless-tent-camps-are-an-open-secret/
Can't believe we still have homelessness in affluent countries. It's bad anywhere in the world, but seems even worse in countries with the cash to sort this out. Nice to read about one guys mission to help those struggling with no place to call home.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 01, 2018, 06:39:31 PM
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414/
Good article. Disheartening and maddening, but well done.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages?CMP=twt_gu
Quote from: mirth on March 02, 2018, 03:47:38 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages?CMP=twt_gu
"It's a trap!"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-says-american-workers-are-hurt-by-immigration-but-after-ice-raided-this-texas-town-they-never-showed-up/2018/03/04/8ce16362-1d65-11e8-ae5a-16e60e4605f3_story.html
The teenagers running for Governor of Kansas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/six-teenagers-are-running-for-governor-in-kansas-and-suddenly-this-doesnt-seem-so-preposterous/2018/03/02/e70495de-11b8-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?utm_term=.90b5a576bbf4
you gotta read it all, tough as it is... homeless in NYC
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/nyregion/nyc-homeless-nakesha-mental-illness.html
Beating the lottery
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/consumers-are-revolting-against-animal-cruelty-so-the-poultry-industry-is-lobbying-for-laws-to-force-stores-to-sell-their-eggs/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2018, 12:08:35 PM
Beating the lottery
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/
This is a great read.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 06, 2018, 11:55:09 AM
you gotta read it all, tough as it is... homeless in NYC
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/nyregion/nyc-homeless-nakesha-mental-illness.html
A great read that had me welling up at times :'( it just goes to show how complicated the reasons are for homelessness , and that it's not an easy area to help out another person . I think these sentences in this article showed how unreachable she was ,"she somehow managed to hold on to all of us , but she wouldn't let us hold on to her." :'( Thankgoodness people kept trying to help her and reach her , and even though they never got her off the streets before she died , all of that kindness must have definitely given her a better quality of life than she would have had , if all of those people had just ignored her .
Quote from: mirth on March 06, 2018, 02:57:03 PM
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/consumers-are-revolting-against-animal-cruelty-so-the-poultry-industry-is-lobbying-for-laws-to-force-stores-to-sell-their-eggs/
Animal cruelty is really upsetting :'( That was a good article ,but difficult to read :(
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/opinion/guns-mental-health-baker-act.html
The obsessive rituals of Ichiro Suzuki
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/22624561/ichiro-suzuki-return-seattle-mariners-resolve-internal-battle
the man who (intentionally) knew too little
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/style/the-man-who-knew-too-little.html
I saw that yesterday.
TBH, I actually envy the guy. I wish I could turn off the outside world just like that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/03/11/feature/a-beloved-restaurant-owner-was-deported-a-community-was-in-uproar-then-it-moved-on/?utm_term=.3c38f7a20e97
all those one-and-done's that didn't stick in the NBA
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/3/13/17112560/kentucky-wildcats-fringes-john-calipari
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/magazine/how-a-ransom-for-royal-falconers-reshaped-the-middle-east.html
Yahoo! was first... and it didn't matter
https://medium.com/fast-company/the-glory-that-was-yahoo-587a1fab0665
The Blogs of War
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iraq-war-military-bloggers_us_5ab1543ee4b008c9e5f2089c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan
https://taskandpurpose.com/burn-pits-iraq-afghanistan/
baseball washout becomes football star
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2768162-how-hayden-hurst-went-from-baseball-flameout-to-potential-1st-round-nfl-pick
https://taskandpurpose.com/didnt-kill-death-lance-corporal-brian-easley/
Kid rolls over on MS13 members.
So we arrest him, and threaten to deport him back to where he's marked for death for rolling on them, b/c he's here illegally
https://features.propublica.org/ms-13/a-betrayal-ms13-gang-police-fbi-ice-deportation/
How ISIS ran their country
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/04/world/middleeast/isis-documents-mosul-iraq.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/left-behind/556844/
the author of this one passed away last week
I remember reading it in the magazine when it came out and loved it
https://www.si.com/nfl/2014/09/04/name-wall-si-60-william-nack-bob-kalsu
but gawd help you if you ask those $50k/month pensions to give something back... "but I earned it!" is the inevitable scream, and the selfishness that prevents anyone from a follow-on generation of having a chance at earning anything themselves, either.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/business/pension-finance-oregon.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-francisco-earthquake-seismic-gamble.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/too-many-men/
don't burn out your developers
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17130056/telltale-games-developer-layoffs-toxic-video-game-industry
https://theathletic.com/319441/2018/04/19/wash-it-all-away-the-life-and-legacy-of-former-nhl-player-david-gove/
very probably, the most words ever written in a single article about Sandler's movie career. The article is also probably better than the career (especially if you leave out Spanglish)
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/4/21/17264174/adam-sandler-the-week-of-netflix-chris-rock
Hard to imagine Billy Madison was 23 years ago.
Adam Sandler.
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I'm with Vomit Guy.
3 Sandler flicks I enjoy: Spanglish, Wedding Singer, and Punch Drunk Love. That's pretty much it. I enjoyed Billy Madison when it first came out, but then when I saw it again I realized how bad it was.
I did like Punch Drunk Love and 50 First Dates was okay.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/23/business/energy-environment/big-windmills.html
DNA convicted the wrong guy
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna
The start of FaceBook
https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/first-profile-facebook.php
Jake Locker walked away from football
https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/04/18/jake-locker-nfl-2011-draft-tennessee-titans-why-he-quit
QuoteBut not Hasselbeck. "Look," he says. "Every coach I ever played for says these are the priorities: faith, family, football. But no one really lives that way. No one. Jake didn't retire. He put family and faith first. This is the way I judge people now: If you don't like Jake Locker, I don't think I can like you."
https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-high-school-impostor
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/america-s-elderly-are-losing-37-billion-a-year-to-fraud
Erik Prince goes to China
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/05/04/feature/a-warrior-goes-to-china-did-erik-prince-cross-a-line/
Sounds like Prince resents the gov't more than he loves his country so he's gone over to the Chinese.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-doting-father-who-robbed-armored-cars/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/business/michael-cohen-lawyer-trump.html
^read that yesterday. Interesting piece.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/world/americas/aids-venezuela-indigenous-people-threatened.html
Good read here
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
^saw that earlier. Interesting piece.
Hacking the Xbox... and getting arrested
https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-underground-videogame-hackers/
the robot cleanup of Fukushima
https://www.wired.com/story/fukushima-robot-cleanup/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 08, 2018, 03:30:25 PM
Good read here
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
a follow-up
http://alicedreger.com/IDW
HOF pitcher Jim Palmer's real parents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/hall-of-fame-pitcher-jim-palmer-long-wondered-if-hes-related-to-jfk-at-72-he-learned-the-truth/2018/05/10/2e057d32-4e1c-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/how-smallvilles-allison-mack-went-actress-sex-cult-slaver-1112107
wow
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/10/style/sexual-consent-college-campus.html
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-lesson-of-eric-greitens-and-the-navy-seals-who-tried-to-warn-us
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state
The quest for the royalties from Aqualung
https://theoutline.com/post/4490/jethro-tull-aqualung-cover-artist-burton-silverman?zd=3&zi=vjbac3on
The Fortnight Theory of the Universe
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/i-played-fortnite-and-figured-out-the-universe/559940/
Another place to visit
https://www.ourstate.com/the-unpainted-aristocracy/
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/21/how-to-steal-an-election-in-broad-daylight/
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 19, 2018, 08:42:46 AM
The quest for the royalties from Aqualung
https://theoutline.com/post/4490/jethro-tull-aqualung-cover-artist-burton-silverman?zd=3&zi=vjbac3on
The guy sold the artwork and the rights to it. Now he is whining. Really?
https://story.californiasunday.com/las-vegas-shooting
Don't expect much about theories; this isn't that kind of article.
A prose recreation of the private video record (unseen publicly) of Tim Samaras and his crew trying to place sensors ahead of the El Reno supertornado (the largest on record to date, and second fastest clocked windspeeds on Earth).
https://lithub.com/chasing-an-impossible-storm/
Be aware, it gets harrowing.
Here's the biography that article was a chapter from:
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Man-Who-Caught-the-Storm/Brantley-Hargrove/9781476796093
FERPA, colleges, and students in distress
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/us/college-student-suicide-hamilton.html
Quote"There is an ethos of maintaining privacy and confidentiality — which sometimes is very beneficial," Mr. Sokolow said. "But when somebody's dead, do you wish you'd worked to maintain their privacy, or do you wish you'd worked to keep them alive?"
going back to jail because he was released "too early" - not really what you think
http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/he-heads-back-prison-nashville-man-says-goodbye-new-life-he-hoped-build#stream/0
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/reader-center/racial-stereotypes.html
the one about the car seat in Toys R Us is pretty touching
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/magazine/sex-cult-empowerment-nxivm-keith-raniere.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambler-who-cracked-the-horse-racing-code
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/imperfect-answers-a-son-killed-in-action/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5c87ba43b7d2
"Rising Son"
https://theathletic.com/378737/2018/06/04/cole-anthony-rising-son-has-stepped-to-the-head-of-his-class/
Trash in NYC
https://features.propublica.org/sanitation-salvage/sanitation-salvage-accidents-new-york-city-commercial-carting-garbage/
https://read.amazon.com/kp/kshare?asin=B01GI6S7EK&id=_OpP5vbsS5ave8PtD1wH0g&reshareId=KJR5XJMMK3QW0Y37BACN&reshareChannel=system
Not particularly long, but a good read
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/suicide-is-desperate-it-is-hostile-it-is-tragic-but-mostly-it-is-a-bloody-mess/2018/06/08/ecf66aee-6b54-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d24fd2feace0
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/human-cost-kindle-amazon-china-foxconn-jeff-bezos
so this hits pretty close to home for me right now, and I suspect for at least a few of y'all
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom
Quote from: bayonetbrant on June 12, 2018, 07:15:04 AM
so this hits pretty close to home for me right now, and I suspect for at least a few of y'all
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom
ha! lotta truth there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/veterans-ptsd-drone-warrior-wounds.html
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/06/15/why-are-there-so-many-damn-ubers/
Vice Media's business model
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.html
Investigating FIFA
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/world-cup-soccer-fifa-corruption-investigation?utm_term=.ss82VZRoBp#.ei1M9Yq2Nz
cyberwar on the offensive
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/cyber-command-trump.html
when the school thinks your kid could be the next school shooter
https://www.oregonlive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/06/75f0f464cb3367/targeted_a_family_and_the_ques.html
City of Exiles
https://story.californiasunday.com/tijuana-city-of-exiles
Dying to save Right Whales?
https://thedeepmag.ca/joeandthewhale/
https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/07/09/astroball-houston-astros-book-excerpt
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/10/3-versions-of-europe-are-collapsing-at-the-same-time/
The Cash Me Outside girl is now a rap star
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/magazine/the-big-business-of-becoming-bhad-bhabie.html
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 16, 2018, 04:36:40 PM
The Cash Me Outside girl is now a rap star
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/magazine/the-big-business-of-becoming-bhad-bhabie.html
Sigh....things like this make me fear for our civilization......
Portugal says "FU" to credit regulators and goes on a boom
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/business/portugal-economy-austerity.html
Quote from: Steelgrave on July 16, 2018, 05:16:43 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on July 16, 2018, 04:36:40 PM
The Cash Me Outside girl is now a rap star
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/magazine/the-big-business-of-becoming-bhad-bhabie.html
Sigh....things like this make me fear for our civilization......
the genius is in the marketing guy, not the idiot he's promoting
a good news story we could all use
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/24182944/where-braves-legend-dale-murphy-now
MD, this is right in your neck of the woods
https://gizmodo.com/when-a-stranger-decides-to-destroy-your-life-1827546385
I don't know that I normally would've given an article like this a second thought if it hadn't come recommended, but it turned out to be pretty fascinating
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/jeff-henry-verruckt-schlitterbahns-tragic-slide/?src=longreads
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions
Quote from: mirth on August 02, 2018, 04:35:25 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions
This one blew my mind. Wow. No wonder I never won the 1 mil!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/death-20th-century-fox-a-eulogy-a-hollywood-studio-1131094
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/27/silicon-valley-spies-china-russia-219071
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 06, 2018, 12:34:25 PM
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230
good find
Quote from: mirth on August 06, 2018, 12:51:06 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on August 06, 2018, 12:34:25 PM
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230
good find
there's even more to the story that I heard from Sec. Card on a trip to DC in 2003. It was a fascinating and ridiculous story all in one.
https://longreads.com/2018/08/06/weird-in-the-daylight/
The story of Sadlack's and the live music scene around it
The story focuses on the late-90s alt-country scene, but he late-80s/early-90s hard rock scene was just as vibrant
not a good look for Facebook
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/food-deserts-washington-dc/
The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-russia-code-crashed-the-world/
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-cartel-next-door/