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Quick Links for June 2015

June 30
An Incredibly Detailed Map of Europe's Population Shifts
June 29
Fracking and the closing wage gap means that US manufacturing costs are almost as low as China's
New Harry Potter!! It's a play opening in London in 2016. Rowling says it's not a prequel but it's totally a prequel.
Judge Richard Posner on the marriage equality ruling: "gratuitous interference in other people's lives is bigotry"
June 28
ISIS recruits a lonely young American; she got curious after seeing an image of James Foley's execution (!!!!)
June 26
I'm so beyond happy about the Supreme Court marriage ruling that I rainbow flagged the header! Congrats!!
US Supreme Court rules "the Constitution guarantees a nationwide right to same-sex marriage" !!!!!
June 25
California is set to make vaccines mandatory, no religious or personal reasons allowed
Animation of slave ships crossing the Atlantic from 1545-1860
Breaches of subway etiquette, ranked
June 24
Nice visualization: What's Really Warming the World? (Spoiler: it's the greenhouse gases)
An appreciation of NY Times' underutilized TimesMachine service, particularly focusing on the old advertising
The Stonewall Inn, already on the National Register of Historic Places, is deservedly designated a NYC landmark
This is idiotic insanity: families had to wait in line for 16 days to get their kids into an Ohio elementary school
Lawrence Wright on how 5 families tried to route around a non-responsive US govt to save Syrian-held hostages
June 23
A Food Tour of Seinfeld's New York
MIT Technology Review's list of the 50 Smartest Companies
Zach Klein on Preparing Our Kids for Jobs That Don't Exist Yet
June 22
The importance of process: deaths from coronary heart disease dropped 38% in 10 yrs, driven by revamped protocols
Chicken tenders are the perfect food; "Chicken tenders have no history, they have no metatext, they have no terroir"
The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jim Carrey was unexpectedly weird (not in the way you would think)
This history of Apple's homepage tabs shows what the company found important for the past 15 years
June 19
An epic history of the movie trailer
The odd sport of featherbowling and the ballad of player Steve Gosskie, who briefly ruled it
Jon Stewart on the Charleston terrorist attack "They are already using the nuanced language of lack of effort"
June 18
These Are The Victims Of The Charleston Church Shooting
June 17
If you want to lose weight, focus on eating less not exercising more
Coming up on HBO: a 70s porn series from David Simon, more of The Jinx, and (possibly) Bill Simmons
Uber drivers are employees rules California's Labor Commission
June 16
Bloomberg: US Bans Trans Fat
June 15
Guantanamo still houses 116 prisoners. Thanks, Obama.
Disney's record profitability: I hope you like sequels!
June 12
Grief for your dead younger brother; "Hitting the ground is a repeated theme of the grieving process."
The entire run of The Wire came out on Blu-ray last week
June 11
Dick Costolo out as Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey temporarily in. 2018: Ev made CEO. 2020: Jack again. 2021: Hello, Dick!
XOXO Festival opens registration for 2015, Dooce, Kathy Sierra, Zoe Quinn, and Suck founders to appear
Famous quotes and the people who didn't say them
Bloomberg Business devotes an entire issue to Paul Ford answering the question "What is Code?"
An excellent wide-ranging interview of Michael Lewis by Robert Birnbaum
June 10
Secretariat vs American Pharoah... the recent Triple Crown winner no match for the "tremendous machine"
Hamptons houseshare hell; "so I don't hear from Nixxon? all week? and I have to take the Jitney?"
From Eater founder Ben Leventhal, The 9 Habits of Highly Effective Restaurants
Photographer David Guttenfelder has been to North Korea 40 times; here are his latest photos
June 9
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Apple will be making their Swift programming language open source later in the year
The four main ways people rationalize eating meat: natural, necessary, normal, and nice
Cornell's ornithology lab has developed a program to automatically ID birds from hi-res photos
Teen jailed in Rikers for 3 years, 2 years in solitary, never charged, dead by suicide. Kalief Browder, 1993–2015.
June 8
Eater followed Portland's Kachka from first-prep to close to find out how restaurants work
June 5
This is sweet and melancholy at once: The Metamorphosis of a Friendship
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
The four stages of life: mimicry, self-discovery, commitment, and legacy
My favorite new word: "chumbox"
The most cursed sports cities in the US. Cleveland is #1.
June 4
The other bystander effect: last week, around 100 people lifted a London bus off of a man trapped underneath
Portland's XOXO Festival is expanding into a year-round, full-time for indie art & tech projects
New Claritin Flamethrower Incinerates Whatever Causing Allergies
Andrew Wiles though he'd proved Fermat's Last Theorem. Then his proof fell apart.
Hahaha, people are reviewing this silver spray paint as War Boys from Mad Max "Oh what a spray! What a lovely spray!"
Gawker Media workers vote to unionize
June 3
It's time to let Edward Snowden come home
Giving to the Red Cross is not a thing we should still be doing, right?
A collection of oral histories of movies
June 2
Tim Carmody compiles The Iceman List, "classic movie antagonists who were actually pretty much right all along"
Whoopensocker, doodinkus, skimmelton, diddledees... 51 American colloquialisms.
Ben Shewry, a chef from Australia, writes about how becoming a father changed his entire approach to his profession
Radiolab interviews Oliver Sacks one last time
June 1
Great longread on how the visual effects for Mad Max: Fury Road were done
Jeffrey Zeldman: My website is 20 years old today
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