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Conan O'Brien has trouble interviewing his guest, Sterling Archer.
comment posted at 2:27 PM on Jan-21-15

RIP Page 3. There has been no formal announcement but it seems the long tradition of having a photograph of a topless woman on Page 3 of Rupert Murdoch's flagship British newspaper, The Sun, is no more.
comment posted at 11:10 AM on Jan-20-15

Can you name these cities just by looking at their subway maps? (SLWaPo)
comment posted at 4:31 PM on Jan-19-15

Candide Thovex in "One of those days 2" a 5min first-person GoPro video of a perfect day at the Val Blanc, France resort.
comment posted at 8:48 PM on Jan-18-15

On The Fetishisation Of Gay Men By Women In The Slash Community by Kiri Van Santen
comment posted at 7:07 PM on Jan-18-15

" I mostly photograph empty buildings with great staircases inside. I simply adore old decaying architecture, their patterns and textures – they remind me that everything is impermanent."
comment posted at 7:30 AM on Jan-18-15

Wayne Schmuck, used-car distributor. Welcome to the eponysterical world of the aptonym.
comment posted at 3:15 PM on Jan-16-15

The Magic of Education
comment posted at 2:14 PM on Jan-15-15
comment posted at 2:21 PM on Jan-15-15

What Taking My Daughter to a Comic Book Store Taught Me “All their…” …and her voice dropped to a whisper… “boobies are hanging out, Dad."
comment posted at 7:15 AM on Jan-15-15
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comment posted at 10:25 AM on Jan-15-15

It was a one-mile walk home from a Silver Spring park on Georgia Avenue on a Saturday afternoon. But what the parents saw as a moment of independence for their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, they say authorities viewed much differently.
comment posted at 8:01 AM on Jan-15-15

Music critic Sasha Frere-Jones is leaving The New Yorker to annotate lyrics at Genius. Here's his first post.
comment posted at 6:49 PM on Jan-13-15

Trail Type is a site showcasing loads of examples of type found out on the trail. You probably thought there were only a couple standard fonts used by Forest Service and National Park organizations, but it turns out there are loads of different examples of handmade, routered-into-wood, and quickly made letterforms, and they're all beautiful.
comment posted at 6:45 PM on Jan-12-15
comment posted at 7:58 PM on Jan-12-15

The Olympic Rings over Fenway? Are you wicked stupid? On Thursday the U.S. Olympic Committee chose Boston as America’s bidding city for the 2024 Olympics, beating out San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles in the Olympic sweepstakes. As would be expected from Bostonians, reaction is less than enthusiastic.
comment posted at 7:22 AM on Jan-10-15

Jimmy Fallon blew a chance to date Nicole Kidman [slyt]
comment posted at 7:46 AM on Jan-8-15

An entire day in Disneyland, compressed to 90 seconds using composites of over 20,000 images taken in time-lapse. Kind of amazing day to night transitions, immense crowds, and nice slow pans across the landscapes show a familiar place in a whole new light.
comment posted at 7:33 AM on Jan-5-15
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comment posted at 6:54 PM on Jan-5-15

Visibility As Violence On Social Media
comment posted at 6:41 AM on Jan-5-15
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comment posted at 7:07 AM on Jan-5-15

"Women and men should have equal prize money". Helen Wyman, UCI pro cyclist and newly-minted UCI commissaire, has been working diligently this year in her new role to ensure, among other things, gender equality in pay and treatment for women in the demanding and rapidly growing sport of cyclocross.
comment posted at 4:55 PM on Jan-3-15
comment posted at 5:13 PM on Jan-3-15

"Disney's Haunted Mansion has a devoted fan following. I get it. It's a classic attraction packed with beautiful artwork, memorable and creepy characters, and grand rooms with tons to look at. Even though I've gone on the ride dozens of times at Disneyland, I still come across new things. The ride is deserving of piles of fan art so I've gathered not quite 999 spooktacular examples from around the web. From Ghost Hosts, to Hitchhiking Ghosts, to Madame Leota – it's all right here. Ignore the hot and cold running chills and browse the below gallery."
comment posted at 11:18 AM on Jan-3-15

Texas is bro country. But the term also covers the entirety of Oklahoma, and almost all of Louisiana and Arkansas, plus good chunks of Kansas and New Mexico. A mid-sized gathering of bros straddles the Michigan-Indiana border, and a tiny bro community lives by the seaside on either side of the Virginia-North Carolina state line.

American regional variations in what you call your male best friends. By Frank Jacobs.
comment posted at 7:44 AM on Jan-3-15

Being a black man in Ukraine showed me everything that's wrong with race in the U.S.

My introduction to racism in Eastern Europe had come swiftly and severely. Over my next 18 months in Ukraine, race would remain a constant obstacle to normal life and interactions with Ukrainians. Certainly, black skin creates hurdles in the United States, as well. Here, racism systemically – but usually covertly – obstructs African-Americans from fully enjoying all the freedoms afforded to white people. But racism in Ukraine was much more blunt – always in my face, unabashed and in plain view. I never had to guess whether a person’s remarks carried racist undertones or if an officer’s stop was fueled by prejudice. Ukrainians always let me know where I stood with them, good or bad. And I appreciated it.

comment posted at 7:27 AM on Jan-3-15

Health aside, some of my friends were just weirded out. Why turn plant proteins into burgers and dogs? Why not just eat them as peas and soybeans and seeds? To which I say: taco, chimichanga, empanada, crepe, pierogi, wonton, gyoza, stuffed roti, pupusa, pastie, pig in a blanket, croque monsieur, pastrami on rye. Culture is a lump of flesh wrapped in dough. If you want to save the world, you’d better make it convenient.

The Beyond Meat people, already known for their plant-based chicken (previously), are taking on plant-based beef. Is it really The Top-Secret Food That Will Change the Way You Eat? Probably not, but it's still interesting.
comment posted at 3:08 PM on Jan-1-15
comment posted at 3:14 PM on Jan-1-15

Three Flordia counties are doing away with courthouse weddings. In response to the ban on the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses being lifted on Tuesday we've also seen county clerks threatened by the state while the Attorney General asks the federal judge to clarify that he didn't just mean the clerk named in the case.
comment posted at 8:49 AM on Jan-2-15

17 year old Leelah Alcorn died last weekend when she was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on I-71; her suicide note (tw: suicide, transphobia) has been shared tens of thousands of times in the wake of her death, as part of her wish that her be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. "I want someone to look at that number and say “that’s fucked up” and fix it. Fix society. Please."
comment posted at 4:56 PM on Dec-30-14
comment posted at 9:36 AM on Jan-2-15

On Nerd Entitlement: an essay by Laurie Penny in the New Statesman, responding to a discussion on Scott Aaronson's blog about sexism in STEM fields and nerd culture.
comment posted at 10:43 AM on Jan-8-15

JetBlue is adding luggage charges and packing more seats on its planes, and customers are freaking out. Is contemporary airline service so bad because the airlines are colluding to make you suffer, as Tim Wu writes in the New Yorker? Or because low-price, a la carte service is what fliers actually want, as Alison Griswold writes in Slate? For a data-rich deep dive into what passengers really hate about air travel, see "The Unfriendly Skies" (.pdf), a report on five years worth of air travelers' complaints to the US Department of Transportation.
comment posted at 11:16 AM on Dec-27-14
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comment posted at 11:49 AM on Dec-27-14

"Perhaps shipping also reflects the yearning for a small moment of control in a chaotic world. Children often react to their inherent powerlessness by retreating to the wide-open spaces of their imagination. They make their dolls kiss (or fight), and feel a sense of control that they lack in the real world. As fans, people may not be the author of the fictional worlds they love to inhabit, but when they ship, they can momentarily grab the wheel in the most exhilarating of ways — envisioning and championing relationships that demonstrate their own mastery of a created universe, and their true feelings about how love should exist in that world, if not indeed in their own." [via mefi projects; single-page format]
comment posted at 11:30 AM on Dec-27-14

Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty: Author and Web design consultant Eric Meyer lost his daughter Rebecca to a brain tumor earlier this year, as mentioned previously on the Blue--or in this case the Purple. At the year's end, Facebook's Year in Review app has been sending him ghastly reminders of this recent history with an auto-populated, cheerily decorated slideshow featuring pictures of his dead daughter. Mediating on the influence of such algorithms in our lives, he writes: To call a person “thoughtless” is usually considered a slight, or an outright insult; and yet, we unleash so many literally thoughtless processes on our users, on our lives, on ourselves.
comment posted at 7:05 AM on Dec-26-14
comment posted at 2:35 PM on Dec-26-14

A black teenager two miles outside Ferguson, Mo. has been shot by police and subsequently died.
comment posted at 3:15 PM on Dec-27-14
comment posted at 10:14 AM on Jan-2-15

A revolutionary communications platform for the connected and powerful.
comment posted at 6:53 PM on Dec-23-14
comment posted at 7:02 PM on Dec-23-14

Mathowie discusses what could be better about podcasting.
comment posted at 8:06 AM on Dec-22-14
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comment posted at 10:48 AM on Dec-22-14

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