Month: April 2019
April 29, 2019
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“But unseen barriers do. Devon Price Mar 23, 2018 Photo by Scott Webb, courtesy of Unsplash I’ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years,…”
April 27, 2019
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A Tiny House Overflowing With Ideas in Toronto’s West End | Designlines
“A Mini Bloorcourt Home Overflowing with Big Ideas This teeny house is a fixture of the Bloor and Dufferin neighbourhood. The previous tenant, an artist, painted…”
April 24, 2019
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The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
“okawa somchai / Shutterstock As Instagram has grown to more than 1 billion monthly users , it has ushered in a very particular look: bright walls , artfully…”
April 20, 2019
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A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF | PDF Association
“What can we learn about the Mueller Report from the PDF file released by the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019? This article offers two things: a brief,…”
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A Sunny Saturday at Brooklyn’s Most Instagrammable Intersection
“At Dumbo’s most photogenic street corner. Photo: itzellemed/Instagram The Empire State Building peeks through the Manhattan Bridge’s arches at the corner of…”
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Why Joy Division? Henry Rollins examines Jon Savage’s oral history of the post-punk band
“Jon Savage’s “This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else” documents the formation, brief life and sudden end of the phenomenal Manchester, England, band…”
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Unmasked: An Analysis of 10 Million Passwords
“10 Million Tiny Windows Who is the first superhero that comes to mind? What about a number between one and 10? And finally, a vibrant color? Quickly think of…”
April 19, 2019
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The Lost Man (Jane Harper, 2019)
Jane Harper is quickly becoming one of my favorite mystery writers. All set in Australia, most in the outback, her stories are sharply written character studies of people lost in a massive, hostile environment. And murder and deceit.
April 17, 2019
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‘Big and tall’ could be bigger — and better
“Our civilization encourages a dude to be a bigger man, but doesn’t deign to dress him very well. The situation in apparel for what the industry calls “big and…”
April 7, 2019
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The Light Brigade (Kameron Hurley, 2019)
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“Felicity Huffman leaves a federal courthouse on April 3. Gretchen Ertl / Reuters Sweet Christ, vindication! How long has it been? Years? No, decades. If hope is…”
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We Know Very Little About How Old Age And The Internet Intersect, And What We Do Know Is Troubling
“Older people play an outsized role in civic life. They also are more likely to be online targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric. FORT WASHINGTON,…”
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I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead.
“Tweet this Product teams have been repeating the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) mantra for a decade now, without re-evaluating whether it’s the right way to…”
April 6, 2019
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What Toronto Learned By Giving Streetcar Its Own Lane
“In crowded urban areas, cars aren’t the most efficient way to move people. That’s the lesson from Toronto’s one year King Street “pilot,” which prohibited…”
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Lil Nas X’s Havoc-Wreaking Meme Is a Hit. He’s as Surprised as You Are
“It took Montero Hill a few tries to perfect the art of going viral. “I was doing Facebook comedy videos, then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on…”