The slacktivism of Richard Linklater. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/summer_movies/2006/06/watching_the_detectives.html
Why Hostility Can Bring People Closer Together - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-hostility-can-bring-people-closer-together/
Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective
Arnemancy : Giordano Bruno’s Art of Memory https://arnemancy.com/articles/art-of-memory/giordano-brunos-art-of-memory/
Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html
The US town ruled by an AI storyteller • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-14-the-us-town-ruled-by-an-ai-storyteller
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
A Mansion Filled With Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young https://undark.org/article/wilo-evans-broad-band/
How many news articles could be retitled ‘Dude with PhD has Weird Opinion His Colleagues Openly Mock Him For’? (Not that weird opinions aren’t inherently interesting & all)
The Company That Makes Mechanical Keyboards Clack - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qzy5/the-company-that-makes-mechanical-keyboards-clack
Holy shit, Morning Cup of Coding featured my article about Scene/Sequel as a part of their description of NaNoGenMo. http://tinyurl.com/yayvdl9u #botally
Abalonia: The Island Nation That Never Was - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cortes-bank
The Government Campaign to Get Rid of Singapore’s Unofficial Language - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/singlish-singapore-government-campaign
The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | How Did A Major Label Manage To Lose A John Coltrane Record? http://thequietus.com/articles/24852-john-coltrane-both-directions-at-once-the-lost-album-ted-gioia
Inside the calming communities of YouTube’s lo-fi hip hop scene | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/40366/1/youtube-lo-fi-hip-hop-study-relax-24-7-livestream-scene
article idea: media (esp. social media) as perverse psychogeography, & the inhabitants of transient spaces by career & disposition
Your Phone Is Listening and it’s Not Paranoia - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia
GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button
The Art of Kimchi | SAVEUR https://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/The-Art-of-Kimchi
Why Foley Artists Use Cabbage and Celery to Create Hollywood’s Distinctive Sounds - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-are-film-sound-effects-made
Why Is a ‘Pepper’ Different From ‘Pepper’? Blame Christopher Columbus - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-called-pepper
Pardon Our Interruption https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-the-world-s-most/243599
The NSA Just Released 136 Historical Propaganda Posters - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43548d/nsa-historical-propaganda-posters-foia
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Have Been Discovered in a 67GB Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3anja/labyrinthe-japanese-game-discovered-on-private-forum
The Russian Philosopher Who Sought Immortality in the Cosmos - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-russian-cosmism-nikolai-federov
Actually, if I did a series of articles on (non-secret parts of) Xanadu internals, would anybody care? Not just transcopyright – I’ve got detailed knowledge on how ZZOGL / FloatingWord did layout, for instance. I think I can explain these things in a clearer way than Ted does, in some cases.
Possible article idea: ‘the case for chaffing’
How a 64k intro is made http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/64k_intro.html
Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/favism-fava-beans
Plaques of Future Past: Eccentric Stone Monuments to Anti-Gravity Research - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/plaques-future-past-eccentric-stone-monuments-anti-gravity-research/
Review: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson | Kate Manne https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/jordan-peterson-12-rules-kate-manne-review/
The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Why AI Pop Stars Are Even More Real Than The Real Thing http://thequietus.com/articles/24629-lil-miquela-poppy-ai-pop-stars
Cosmic rays are a completely reasonable explanation https://lwn.net/Articles/219983/
This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It’s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot
This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It‘s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot
The Female Painter Whose Modern Art Shocked Ireland - Artsy https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-female-painter-modern-art-shocked-ireland
‘It’s an Anime Titty Holocaust:’ Steam Is Cracking Down on Visual Novels - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evkxdk/steam-banning-adult-anime-visual-novel-huniepop
A Most Violent Year | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/148276/violent-year
The Artful Imperfection of Medieval Manuscript Repair - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-manuscripts-embroidery
Footnotes to Plato | Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom â Steven Nadler https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/
New England Is Crisscrossed With Thousands of Miles of Stone Walls - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-england-stone-walls
My Brain Keeps Turning Thoughts into Memories - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjxpb/my-brain-keeps-turning-thoughts-into-memories
What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict
eBay, Organized Crime, and Evangelical Christians: The Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civ… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgxjp/ebay-organized-crime-and-evangelical-christians-the-ethical-minefield-of-studying-ancient-civilizations-hobby-lobby-irisagrig-iraq
An Algorithmic Investigation of the Highfalutin ‘Poet Voice’ - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cultural-analysis-poet-voice
These People Are Selling the CIA’s Internal Board Game to the Public - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxkd8/cia-board-game-techdirt-kickstarter
Disrupting the Commons: Dockless Bikes and Scooters Create Layers of Community Instability - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9gxd/electric-scooters-san-francisco-limebike-the-commons
The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-design-history
Oh hey this paper is making the rounds again: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268
I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vbx399/what-does-prepper-food-taste-like-v25n1