For a long time now, I’ve linked to Amazon when linking to books, especially on my /reading page. The reasons: It was an easy default and I always knew that if something existed at all there would be a greater than 99% chance one could find it there. As an author, I know from direct experience tha...
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I watched 25 Bollywood movies this year. That’s almost a movie every two weeks. Only 4 of them were re-watches. Considering that I’m an Indian, you may think that doesn’t seem to be a lot. Admittedly, I watched many Bollywood movies when I lived in India (duh!), and even as a grad student in India, my roommates and I watched a ton, sometimes three movies in a night. But we were watching everything and anything. As I got older, my tolerance for bad movies declined, and I was no longer willing to put up with crap that Bollywood had started dishing out in the late aughts and early teens of this century.
An interesting take on the evolution of Bollywood.
The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.
A fascinating story about culture and exclusivity.
An essay passed on by h0p3 covers the differences between online communication and tries to extract what is wonderful about RSS. This seems to vindicate Fraidycat’s strategy in distancing itself from the inbox mentality.
… then you just might have to pound them in yourself. And few things in this tech work give me more joy when figuring an end around, even if it’s one you end up not using. Rising For a …
Beyond movies and perhaps MAD magazine references I have no direct experience with being forced castor oil as a cold remedy. But there is an old advertisement in an image that is in the public doma…
This also reminds me a bit of the small print in newspaper circulars for stores like Macy’s announcing huge 40% off sales where they indicate that the original list prices of the items is not an indication that they ever sold for that price. Which means their advertisements are really just stating the starting price and make it seem like there’s a big discount applied.
By analogy, I have to wonder if the listings on Almay actually result in any significant sales? I suspect that the uploader probably spent more time handling upload, curation, and management than they’d likely ever earn back unless they were doing it at scale?
Perhaps it may be worth it for a professional photographer to supplement their income, or it may affect someone with hundreds of thousands of photos, but I’d have to agree with Alan’s take that I’d rather have the credit and the kind emails too.
An afternoon of poking around the TRU Collector WordPress Theme has taken away an unnecessary vestige of how they started. This goes back more than six years ago, yes to October 31, 2014 (guess who…
The New York Times issued a big mea culpa, and returned a Peabody award and a citation as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize after retracting the core of its hit podcast series Caliphate.
Sounds like the definitely could have handled this better.
I do remember taking their reporting with a massive grain of salt as there were caveats in the story which indicated there was some sketchiness on the part of their subject and whether or not he was there or not or did the things he claimed. I took the whole thing more as a narrative with some entertainment rather than hard-hitting journalism.
Google’s Rich Results Test came out of beta in July with support for all Google Search rich result features like carousels, images, or other non-textual elements. At that time, Google announc…
The tool is only as good as the support it has for consuming applications. What are those consuming applications? (Read: What are the consuming applications for this outside of Google?)
If Google isn’t going to support the consumption of the pieces in search (and history indicates this will be true sooner than later), then the tool doesn’t mean much either way.
A small-town activist thinks he’ll be better off fighting climate change with the other queer influencers on the West Coast! But Southern California ain’t all sunshine & rainbows…
Michael Marshall (New Scientist)A tsunami swept across the North Sea 8150 years ago - but the Dogger archipelago that existed in the area at the time survived the disaster
Michael Marshall (Science)Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began are finally coming to fruition.
Good to see Tibor Gánti finally getting some credit. This is a great little article with a nice overview of the Origin of Life problem (and references). The author Michael Marshall has a new book out on the topic.
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This is one of my favorite things on the internet. The past 24 hours of the Eiffel Tower in a one-minute time lapse animation. This one-minute video file is constantly updated throughout the day to reflect the past 24 hours of the Eiffel Tower. The source of these images comes from a live webcam. See … Eiffel Tower time lapse and Twitter account Read More »
A great Christmas surprise this year? Christmas ninjas! With these fun little guys around the house, you’ll find everyone asking, “Hey, what happened to the Christmas cookies?” Ninjas. These little guys bearing peppermint weapons will surely bring a fresh breath of air to your Christmas. They could cause all sorts of mischief around your house. … The awesome Christmas ninja toys from Oriental Trading Read More »
Rosemary Vrablic, who oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to President Trump’s company, will leave the bank next week.