April 19, 2018
Nothing Compares 2 Prince Rogers Nelson
Brand Korowai
Will Millard set out to spend a year with the Korowai tribe of West Papua, known as one of the most primitive in the world. Turns out they're on to him.
Mentioning literary doubles gets you immunity
Russian Authors I Have Never Technically Lied About Yet Always Feel Uncomfortable Discussing: A Series Of Frenzied Internal Monologue -- The eternal, internal debate, waged at Daniel Mallory Ortberg's The Shatner Chatner. Ortberg previously, and previously, and previously and...
Don't Be Afraid; It Will Get Easier
During the whole Nine Inch Nails era of Ghosts I-IV and The Slip and the tour associated with those releases and also Year Zero ("Lights In The Sky"), NIN live band keyboard performer Alessandro Cortini's side project modwheelmood released three EPs, which together with one more track were combined into 2009's Pearls To Pigs [~55m total]. You've probably never heard of it, but give it a listen. [Ed. Note: What if Savage Garden had an edge?] Side A: Problem Me [which on the album leads into], MHz, Forli', [which on the album leads into] Bellevue Ave [more inside]
"Please Natasha I am sorry the sculpture offended you."
Is This An Ad? is an occasional column by Buzzfeed's Katie Notopoulos (previously) "in which we take a celebrity’s social media post about a brand or product and find out if they’re getting paid to post about it or what." Her latest latest one asks "Is This Creepy Sculpture An Ad For Soylent?"
How Janelle Monáe Found Her Voice
During the 10 hours I was reporting on this story, I was groped 22 times
"This year’s Coachella experience was also full of moments I never saw on Instagram: being repeatedly violated by strangers. In the three days I was at Coachella, I only spent a total of 10 hours at the actual festival, where I watched numerous performances and interviewed festivalgoers about their experience with sexual assault and harassment for Teen Vogue. [...] Of the 54 young women who spoke to Teen Vogue for this piece during the weekend-long event, all of them had a story of sexual assault or harassment that occurred this year at Coachella."
“DMG BOOOM”
Injecting Oscillators Into The CPU of A Gameboy [YouTube] “YouTuber LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - who does loads of really interesting and experimental things with old tech - decided to put some of faulty Game Boy consoles through the grinder to see what he could come up with. He soldered a wire from an oscillator to the timing crystal of the Game Boy itself, allowing him to override the timing and use the oscillator to muck about with the Game Boy's CPU speed.” [via: Nintendo Life] [Previously.]
We might as well have taken the kitchen sink
Readers of the women's travel blog Her Packing List share their their "tipping point" stories of the moments that made them ditch the heavy suitcases. To help readers pare down, HPL has over one hundred packing lists, broken down by destination and purpose of travel, as well as special lists like what to pack for wheelchair travel (and bonus: service dog); how to pack a traveling kitchen; and ultralight packing (12L handbag for 3 weeks). Counterpoint: two essays in defense of overpacking by Amelia Diamond and Taffy Brodesser-Akner. [more inside]
Fate/Grand Ripoff
Though Gudako is monstrous, she’s the players’ monster. She shares in their despair and elation, and she describes her relationship with the gacha as a hell from which she cannot escape. Most crucially, this creature of pure id is, like her customers, driven by an unstoppable thirst for rare anime girls.Fate/Grand Order is a free to play gacha game where people can spent thousands of dollars to get limited edition jpegs and then mocks them for doing so with its player avatar character.
Welcome To The Next Level
Two Guys Making New Sega CD Jewel Cases Are In An Accidental War "The cases didn’t stay shut, for example—there was no “click” that held the front cover in place when it was closed. If you tried to insert the piece of protective foam that originally came inside a Sega CD or a Saturn case, plus a manual and a disc, all those contents wouldn’t quite fit inside the case without the front bulging out. The problem that everyone seemed to bring up was that the black inner tray that held the discs sat loosely in the clear outer tray, and if you turned the case over, the tray would likely fall out."
"Let's Everybody Keep Cool"
You've probably heard the infamous audio "Houston, we've had a problem" from the Apollo 13 mission and the ensuing communications from mission control to the spacecraft, but have you ever heard the stuff even the astronauts didn't hear? Eavesdrop on flight directors Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney, and the rest of the gang in mission control as they try to work out the problem from the ground and what they can do to fix it without jeopardizing the lives of the crew. It doesn't cover launch to splash down, but a lot of the critical parts are there. Long, but well worth your time! (MLYT)
Palantir Knows Everything About You
Peter Thiel's secretive surveillance company, Palantir, has been linked recently to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Bloomberg BusinessWeek explores how Palantir was used by a team at JPMorgan to spy on employees and senior execs, how much data they can access on ordinary citizens, and how that data is used, including use by LAPD to "...monitor and stop the pre-crime suspects as often as possible, using excuses such as jaywalking or fix-it tickets."
"We're a single engine, that's it."
You're In A Restoration Hardware Dude
So you don't have to visit Reddit, a video of the top r/AntiMLM posts of all time showcasing various Facebook Multi-Level Marketing scams.
Mass Consensual Hallucinations
‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong’ - VR pioneer Jaron Lanier on internet politics. Meanwhile according to Laura Hudson If you want to know how we ended up in a cyber dystopia, read Ready Player One
Bean Freaks
Fifteen years ago, when Sando founded Rancho Gordo, he had no food-retailing or farming experience. Now he’s the country’s largest retailer of heirloom beans and a minor celebrity in the culinary world. He’s a side dish who’s become a staple. "The Hunt for Mexico’s Heirloom Beans: Rare varieties discovered by Rancho Gordo’s Steve Sando have turned the humble legume into a gourmet food," by Burkhard Bilger.
#IWasWrong
He is the Warax, and he speaks for the troops. A retired U.S. Marine who started a joke account as a reaction to the idea that vets are a right-wing monolith, the Warax mostly drinks brake fluid and carps at the "mil-bro community", amassing thousands of followers on the left-leaning #natsec Twittersphere. But then he got serious, talking about how he had belittled and dismissed female Marines, ending with #IWasWrong. [more inside]
Ceramic Treasures of Japan
Onta is a small village of potters in Japan, who produce distinctive etched ceramics entirely by hand (YT). An episode from Ceramic Treasures of Japan, an NHK World series of 15 minute documentaries, which looks at local ceramic arts in various parts of Japan. Episodes are scattered across youtube; links to 9 episodes are inside. [more inside]
recognition and equity
Heads I win, tails you loose
Fake it till you make it: meet the wolves of Instagram. The rise and fall of binary trading and it's associated affiliate marketing on social media in the UK (Plus bonus! It's replacement by cryptocurrency hype)
Against Marriage
Marriage is what happens when the state gets involved in endorsing and regulating personal relationships. It's a bad idea.
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