June 5, 2018
#byebyebikini #MissAmerica2019
Miss America will no longer have a swimsuit competition. Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of the board, said, "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance." She also said the new Miss America competition will be more inclusive to women of "all shapes and sizes." [more inside]
Then. Now. Next. A year since UBC's sexual assault policy.
Student journalist Samantha McCabe's (excellent!) long form piece for the Ubyssey "It has been a year since UBC put their first stand-alone sexual assault policy into place, and students are disappointed with the university’s progress. As The Ubyssey investigated sexual misconduct and Policy 131, we discovered numerous problems with the policy's implementation, education and communication. While UBC has cited a reasonably lengthy checklist of things they have done, the holes that remain are the ones that survivors routinely seem to be falling through."
(TW: sexual violence) [more inside]
Paint by Monster songs now up on Soundcloud
Paint By Monster (previously), everyone's favourite singing puppet art educator, has put some of his adorable songs up on Soundcloud.
I've had them on a loop all day, especially 7 Holes in Your head and Giant Terrible Robot, which includes the greatest line ever written:
"He was a big industrial trash heap, with a mean look on his face... But why did they give him a face?" [more inside]
7 Minute Alternative
Salt n Peppa, sage-grouse back to life, tempting males for science
Here's a taxidermy bird stuck on some wheels. Specifically, it's a female Greater Sage-Grouse, and it's Salt (or Peppa), Fembot version 2, designed and operated by Professor Gail Patricelli and her teams to better study the noble and stately male Greater Sage-Grouse. [more inside]
“It might make you smell like the inside of an oven,”
A Pizza Wedding Bouquet Is A Real Thing & The Photos Will Give You The Meat Sweats [Elite Daily] “Villa Italian Kitchen, the restaurant chain out of New Jersey, is the first to create the pizza bouquet and boutonniere. “We are so excited to kick-off wedding season with the launch of the world’s first Pizza Bouquet and Boutonniere,”” [Image 1][Image 2][Image 3][Image 4]
(Fool) if you think it's uber
"Uber’s “PR shenanigans” amount to little more than an effort to distract users from the fact that the rides are so cheap essentially because it has used 21st-century technology to erode 20th-century workers’ rights."
Planning My Wedding As A Non-Binary Bride
Claire Rudy Foster: "When I was young, there was no word for what I was – or what I was not. Even now, the words we have are incomplete. I struggle to describe myself. “Not a girl” is usually as far as I get. The closest our language has so far for a person like me is “non-binary,” meaning I exist outside the “masculine” and “feminine” gender norms. It means that, walking down the block, I will get called both “sir” and “ma’am” before I even cross the street – and neither will be right." Claire Rudy Foster is a writer.
IHOP to IHOBut wait what?
The nerve of that young punk with his hair and his masturbating bear!
In Conversation: Conan O’Brien. David Marchese of Vulture talks with the current longest-serving late night show host in television, as he prepares to shift Conan to a 30-minute slot.
She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes.
Kate Spade, born Katherine Noel Frances Valentine Brosnahan, has been found dead in her Manhattan home at age 55. [Warning, suicide] [more inside]
"Now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there."
Japanese post-war design
The Story of Design, written by Charlotte and Peter Fiell, is a new book that chronologises and contextualises the history of design. To give a taste of the book, below we publish its chapter that examines Japanese post-war design, a period in which Japan regenerated its industry following the Second World War.
“Like my world has been unmoored, and how did it happen?”
Miracle on Manchester
As the expansion Vegas Golden Knights face what might be the impending end of their miracle season, let’s look at another great impossible occurrence in the history of NHL hockey: 1982’s Miracle on Manchester, the greatest comeback in league history, when the Los Angeles Kings overcame a 5-0 deficit against Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton Oilers and won in overtime. Read an oral history. Read an interview with game-winning goal scorer Daryl Evans. Watch a short documentary. Watch the whole game.
T & J short
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S.244/2, is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt, and is by far the most famous of the set.
Here it is performed by 15 year old Yannie Tan.
In Search of the "Just City"
the only solution Dove offered was the opportunity to buy its products
"The enormous public success of Dove’s ads flipped a switch in the minds of other people in the attention business. The Real Beauty campaign launched a thousand imitators, but not because it inspired a wave of genuine self-reflection in the people who make a living inventing things for women to feel bad about. Instead, it taught brands like Aerie and Target, which have both received waves of positive public attention for Photoshop-free campaigns, that they could get exposure for pennies on the advertising dollar if they created content that people felt compelled to share themselves, above and beyond paid placements." Body Positivity is a Scam: How a movement intended to lift up women really just limits their acceptable emotions. Again.
Come for the crickets, stay for the squid
The Calgary Exhibition and Stampede (aka "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth") has been attracting visitors and competitors since 1912. They've just announced this year's midway food offerings. There's way more than Barbecued-Things-on-a-Bun and mini-doughnuts and more deep-fried stuff than I thought possible.
Who would believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur?
It may surprise you to learn that cats have Sitters and Standers, just like humans! Check out the latest
Cat Snapchats from BoredPanda (which also has something for those who prefer cat humor in cartoon form).
Ontari-ari-ari-o
Voters in Canada's largest province go to the polls on Thursday. Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne followed her sorry-not sorry campaign with the surprising-not surprising admission that she won't win. PC leader Doug Ford has been light on official policy statements, but it hasn't been difficult to figure out where he stands. Andrea Horwath's left-wing NDP rose dramatically in the polls during the first part of May, but the better spread of votes across ridings for the PCs means that the NDP has only a slim chance of winning. Voters are asking how best to vote strategically. Ontari-ari-ari-o. [more inside]
The secrets of a diary written on castle floorboards
When the new owners of the chateau of Picomtal decided to renovate the parquet in some of their upstairs rooms, they made a remarkable discovery. (SL BBC News)
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