June 16, 2015
Canada 2020
Canada 2020, a progressive think tank, released a blueprint for policy change today: Setting the New Progressive Agenda [PDF].
You had Cersei at Pinot Noir
Jaqen H'ghar is a Game of Thrones themed reimagining of Titus Adromedon's breakout hit: Peeno Noir. slightly NSFW and slightly spoilery for GOT up to the current season
Up close on various recording media
Ever wonder what a record needle looks like as it travels down a groove? What about the surface of a DVD? Even if you haven't, you should still take a look (SLYT)
ha ha hahahahahahaha wheeeee
gentrification, tent cities, climate change, garbage, traffic jams
Grist: Seattle: City Of The Future series includes -
Is Seattle a model for sustainable cities, or just a mess?
Is Seattle a model for sustainable cities, or just a mess?
In reality, of course, change is a complicated and messy thing. With that in mind, the crew at Grist decided a few months back to use our hometown as something of a laboratory. We abandoned our work stations and set off in search of stories that would illustrate how Seattle is changing, for better or worse, and how the city and its residents are coping. It was a chance to get to know the place better, put our theories and prognostications to the test, and see what lessons Seattle holds for other cities.[more inside]
Not everyone defines “black” the same way.
What does it mean to be black if you're a cop? Or Lupita Nyong’o? Or in the STEM fields? Or in the UK? Or China? Or simply black-ish?
Displaced in the D.R.
The New York Times reports that the Dominican Republic will begin deporting thousands of undocumented migrant workers, most of them Haitian, later this week. The Washington Post provides historical context. In The Nation, Greg Grandin reports on the imminent event. Last week, he characterized the effort as "a vicious, anti-black pogrom.” In Harper’s, Rachel Nolan has a detailed letter from the Dominican Republic explaining the situation at length.
Comedy Dillane, Bureaucratic Dillane, Vulnerable Dillane
As long as I can remember, I've wanted to be someone else
Stunning photos show why S. Korea is the plastic surgery capital of the world "During the consultation, I realized that all along, I was only thinking of plastic surgery as some kind of magic tool," she says. "From the media, and from my friends, not many people were talking about how plastic surgery was surgery."
Velociprincess
Velociraptors as Disney Princesses. Simple. Clever.
If debt is invisible, how do you photograph it?
Inspired by Flemish portrait paintings, in which the wealthy would have themselves painted with all their worldly possessions around them, photographer Brittany M. Powell realized that, by photographing indebted people in their households, she was also capturing their debt.
Boys in the street
For (nearly) all of your Ovis Aries needs.
Inspired by the view from a train journey in the Netherlands, Google sheep view is a tumblr that is what it says it is. With an added outtakes section.
("YOO-ker")
Get out your muddlers, shakers, strainers, and ice makers....
Love strawberries? Try these six tasty strawberry cocktails from Chicago bartenders. Looking for something a little less fruity with a little more history? How about five essential Southern cocktails?
Neither option appeal to you? Maybe you missed this previous summer cocktail post?
Neither option appeal to you? Maybe you missed this previous summer cocktail post?
FDA Bans Trans Fats (in three years) (probably)
Based on the available scientific evidence and the findings of expert scientific panels, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) has made a final determination that there is no longer a consensus among qualified experts that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), which are the primary dietary source of industrially-produced trans fatty acids (IP-TFA) are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for any use in human food. (79-page PDF)[more inside]
a steady diet of fear, paranoia, and survivalism
With Eye on Fiscal Armageddon, Texas Set to 'Repatriate' Its Gold To New Texas Fort Knox
On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation that will create a state-run gold depository in the Lone Star State – one that will attempt to rival those operated by the U.S. government inside Fort Knox and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s vault in lower Manhattan. “The Texas Bullion Depository,” Abbott said in a statement, “will become the first state-level facility of its kind in the nation, increasing the security and stability of our gold reserves and keeping taxpayer funds from leaving Texas to pay for fees to store gold in facilities outside our state.”
On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation that will create a state-run gold depository in the Lone Star State – one that will attempt to rival those operated by the U.S. government inside Fort Knox and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s vault in lower Manhattan. “The Texas Bullion Depository,” Abbott said in a statement, “will become the first state-level facility of its kind in the nation, increasing the security and stability of our gold reserves and keeping taxpayer funds from leaving Texas to pay for fees to store gold in facilities outside our state.”
"Our underlying goal is to make better clients"
Inside Obama's Stealth Startup Their mission: to reboot how government works.
Cardinals vs. Astros: Information Security Edition
Last summer, ten months worth of the Houston Astros' confidential notes on trades and acquisitions leaked onto the web. The FBI now thinks the St. Louis Cardinals were behind the breach. [more inside]
and only 113 days until next season!
The Chicago Blackhawks have won the Stanley Cup, and 24 years after it all began Kimmo Timonen can finally call himself a champion. But before he got to hoist it, the Cup had to get there - it was delayed due to weather. But that's okay - it wasn't in the building when the Blackhawks won in 1938, either.
“Come forth Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.”
The Romantic True Story Behind James Joyce’s Bloomsday [TIME]
The day June 16, 1904, was a big one in the romantic life of Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyces’ Ulysses, at least inside his head. In celebration of that day, and Bloom’s fictional perambulations around Dublin during the course of it, James Joyce fans mark the date each year as “Bloomsday.” It is, as TIME explained in 1982, “a sacred date on the calendar of all Joyceans.”[more inside]
The boy who could see England
The wetsuitman. Last winter two bodies were found in Norway and the Netherlands. They were wearing identical wetsuits. The police in three countries were involved in the case, but never managed to identify them. This is the story of who they were.
we publish what we believe to be the position of the British government
The SundayTimes ran a story a few days back stating that Russia and China had cracked Snowdens cache of documents and that MI6 Agents were being emergency evacuated, lives were at risk! Snowden has blood on his hands!(Paywalled Article here)
The article raised a few questions.
Here's Glenn Greenwald with opinions [more inside]
A Message of Peace From a Survivor of Hell: A Hiroshima Survivors Story
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