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Quick Links for August 2015

August 31
An analysis of 6000 movies made 1892-2015 to see if they pass the Bechdel Test (two women converse, not about a man)
Salads are overrated
August 28
The New Rules of Oyster Eating
From Pitchfork, the 200 best songs of the 1980s; the top 20 is delightfully all over the place
Until Hubble's work in the mid-1920s, scientists debated whether the Milky Way was the entire Universe
August 27
"Food has replaced music at the heart of the cultural conversation"
Why are we all not talking more about how Norm MacDonald is Colonel Sanders now?
The evolution of magazine covers over the past 100 years
Buster Keaton, style icon
Burger King to McDonald's: let's make the McWhopper to promote World Peace Day
From 1943, a chart of American business booms and busts since 1775
Pixar in a Box is a series of classes on Khan Academy about how to make movies the Pixar way
August 26
I'm going to be pissed if Game of Thrones is just Star Wars in Westeros. (Spoilers!)
Julius Yego just won world championship in javelin w/ 3rd longest throw ever. No coach, learned by watching YouTube
August 25
Now that we have detailed images of them, 20x200 is selling a set of prints of all nine planets
This was more interesting than I thought it would be: How Bieber, Skrillex, and Diplo make a hit song
For the last time: you do not have to drink 8 glasses of water a day
Rayanne from My So-Called Life is now a British Countess (seriously!)
August 24
"Suddenly the range of the type of sad you can feel, to the type of happy you can feel, is busted open."
August 21
With climate change bearing down, might the Middle East become too hot to inhabit?
Whenever she achieves something in her career, Lara Hogan eats a donut. Time to make the donuts, indeed.
August 20
Rex Sorgatz imagines that TV in 5 years will include BuzzFeed, Vox, Gawker, and TED channels
Army of Shadows is playing at NYC's Film Forum soon; it's a fantastic film
The telegraph, the telephone, and Tinder: sexual panics about technology through the ages
The untold history and enduring legacy of the Space Jam website
August 19
Hmm, Susan Kare works for Pinterest now; "Pinterest is looking for really, really strong designers who are also nice"
August 18
"Globally, it's now virtually certain that 2015 will be the hottest year in history."
How to hack your Amazon Dash buttons to track other activities
Torture doesn't work as an interrogation technique. Here's what does work.
August 17
Working at Amazon sounds fuuuuuun
August 14
Shanghai Disneyland and the art of queue jumping in China
The mass of a supermassive black hole measured in suns. !!!!
Shane Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color) is in pre-production on his new movie, The Modern Ocean
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. The top rap artist is Biggie all the way down at #52? Come. On.
"Dre was always Dre, & Cube was always Cube," but Wright put on a pair of wraparound shades & suddenly became Eazy-E.
Comments on the web aren't impossible, they just require diligence and hard work
August 13
Sesame Street will air on HBO first for the next 5 years; PBS will air w/ 9 month lag
Lists of lifesaving scientists and how many lives they have saved; Fritz Haber & Carl Bosch saved 2.7 billion lives
HBO confirms that talks have begun about doing a Deadwood movie
August 11
Showgoers is a Chrome extension that allows people to all watch the same thing on Netflix together
August 10
What the hell? Google is now Alphabet?
Hey olds! Confused by Snapchat? Read this guide and be saved.
An oral history of Kids. Harmony Korine: "I figured it should take about a week to write."
Didn't know this, but in hindsight it's obvious super-designer Raymond Loewy had a hand in designing Air Force One
August 7
Hey everyone in the US, the Shaun the Sheep movie has a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Go see it!
Maria Bustillos watches The End of the Tour with David Lipsky
August 5
Remembering When Driverless Elevators Drew Skepticism
From the web's own James Grimmelmann, a casebook of internet law (harmful speech, DMCA, network neutrality, etc.)
MoMA is doing a Robert Zemeckis retrospective this fall, showing all his films
August 4
The dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen: a luxury watch with an Apple Watch on the opposite side of the band
Winners of the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
There are quite a few people on LinkedIn named Fuzzy Dunlop. #sheeeeeeeeeeit
Makerbase launched today; it's IMDB for apps, web sites, etc.
August 3
Conversation Parade, a podcast about Adventure Time
Have you ever had a musical skin orgasm?
Bay Area to English translator; "We should get lunch" -> "I ... wish to start the process of exploiting your talents"
Oxford's Bodleian Library is putting 100,000+ images from its collection online, plans to add 1.5 million more
Warren Buffett's Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution
This piece by Larissa MacFarquhar about a couple who ended up adopting 22 children is incredible
"Yet we understood something about each other that no one else did or could."
Teaser trailer for Zoolander 2
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