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Quick Links for October 2015

October 30
How a Stuffed Animal Helped Us Cope With a Miscarriage
ESPN shuts down Grantland
October 29
After relatively heavy rains, the "driest place on Earth" is covered with beautiful pink flowers
This is delightfully absurd: world leaders with man buns
Chris Piascik's book of 1000 drawings features some illustrations he's done for @kottke! Check it on Kickstarter
10 Ways To Run Your Business More Like Taylor Swift
The Great Concavity is a new podcast about David Foster Wallace
October 28
From a 1919 manual for screenwriters, The Thirty-Seven Basic Dramatic Situations
I could listen to how Steven Soderbergh makes his films and TV shows all day long
October 27
Greenland's ice sheet is melting away
Questlove is writing a book about chefs and their creative process
Lego refused an order from artist Ai Weiwei, so he's set up collection points for Lego donations
In just 20 years, we've gone from zero to 5000 possible exoplanets. Here's how it happened.
From the NYer's food issue: how packaging can make food taste better
October 26
Fan theory: Luke Skywalker turned to the dark side at the end of Jedi, is a Sith in the new movie
October 23
An NYC 6th grader runs a business offering nearly unbreakable artisanal passwords for $2 apiece
Work, devices, family: the potential for interruption is itself an interruption
Hurricane Patricia is so strong (winds of 200mph) that it could be a Category 7 hurricane
New favorite German word. "Sitzfleisch! It means, basically, the ability to keep your ass in a chair."
If you're into Narcos on Netflix right now, you might want to watch ESPN's 30 for 30 film, The Two Escobars
October 22
Noodler is an iOS app with thousands of noodle soup recipes
The November issue of National Geographic is devoted entirely to climate change
So good: @jazzedloon dressed like Cookie from Empire for a week to get over her imposter syndrome
After getting FDA approval, genetic reporting company 23andMe revamps their service
October 21
Here are all the new emoji in iOS 9.1. Taco taco taco taco!!!
Walt Mossberg: The Steve Jobs I knew isn't in this movie
All three Back to the Future movies are streaming for free if you've got Amazon Prime #BackToTheFuture
Erika Hall on conducting a quick but useful single-question user research study; "Walk me through a typical day."
Lessons from Alaska, the world's largest sustainable salmon fishery (fisheries management works)
October 19
The coldest inhabited place on Earth is in Siberia, where a local delicacy is "ice cubes of horse blood w/ macaroni"
October 15
The Village Voice announces their Best of NYC for 2015
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na bat flips
The Intercept has obtained secret docs about the US military's assassination-by-drone program.
Now available for purchase: Nicholas Felton's 10th (and final) personal Annual Report
C'mon! The Die Hard series doesn't need an origin story. The original Die Hard *is* the origin story.
Shaq DJed an EDM festival, which, if you look at the trajectory of his life, isn't really that unusual
October 14
Self-driving cars are getting there: Tesla is releasing a "beta" feature to their cars with hands-free driving
Psst. Ghostbusters at Film Forum on Oct 26th.
New York City might be getting a Climate Musuem
Lisa Simpson became a vegetarian 20 years ago
The Met is digitizing and putting online the Burdick collection of sports/trading cards
October 13
Download PDF scripts for some 2016 Oscar contenders, including Ex Machina & End of the Tour
Happy Ada Lovelace Day, a "day devoted to celebrating woman in STEM"
Conde Nast buys independent music site Pitchfork (6.2)
Tim Carmody: Being rich isn't a superpower, and Steve Jobs isn't Spider-Man
Firearms are no longer a hobby of mine
Playboy magazine will no longer feature fully nude women
October 9
Don't leave your boarding pass in your seat-back pocket, it can be used to access your freq. flyer acct.
Marc Andreessen's 1993 Usenet post proposing an "img" HTML tag
October 8
Or perhaps LCD Soundsystem are not reuniting
LCD Soundsystem are reuniting
The people who collect AOL sign-up CDs; "she has over 4,000 unique AOL discs stored in the basement"
Woo! Halt and Catch Fire renewed for a third season!
October 7
"Add your Date of Death to your calendar" Um, no.
October 6
A list of some of the best movies on Netflix right now
Disney Princesses Reimagined as Hot Dogs
Fascinating & moving piece about an amnesia-causing tumor; everything he missed came rushing back after surgery
October 5
Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older
Here's Johnny! @jack is back as permanent CEO of Twitter
Some sexist tropes in The Martian. Totally noticed this in the book and it bugged me a lot.
All of the photos taken during the Apollo missions are up on Flickr in high-res
October 2
New SF restaurant will reblog famous chefs
Nihilistic Password Security Questions; "At what age did your childhood pet run away?"
For the NRA and gun companies, business has boomed since Sandy Hook shooting. (NRA is a tax-exempt non-profit btw.)
On America's gun worship; "It was the sacrifice we as a culture made, and continually make, to our demonic god."
The Lower East Side's Garden of Eden, built in the 70s amongst the rubble from razed buildings
October 1
America's unique problem with gun violence
How much mobile ads are costing readers of 50 news websites; boo to boston.com
The beautiful Cabin Porn book is out; got mine last week & the 8-yo asked, "What's 'porn'?"
The rise of indie film distribution co. A24, who have probably made some of your favorite films from the past 2 yrs
Bill Simmons has relaunched his podcast
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