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Quick Links for June 2016

Adnan Syed, the subject in the first season of the Serial podcast, is getting a retrial in his murder case
12 Disney Princesses Reimagined as Cats Reimagined as Sharks That Are Not Disney Princesses
What sorcery is this? You can clarify used deep frying oil with gelatin.
A list of 50 of America's best diners, 1 per state
Google Maps just refreshed its satellite view; it's now higher res and more cloudless
Hackers can steal data from a computer not connected to the internet by modulating the machine's cooling fan speed
Illustrated Cross-Sections of Major Train Stations in Tokyo by Tomoyuki Tanaka
"Mass incarceration [in the US] is a moral and policy failure"
Tony Hawk can still do a 900 at age 48
On the 10 anniversary of the film, a short oral history of The Devil Wears Prada
THIS IS IMPORTANT: how to register and vote early before the US Presidential election
New book: The End of White Christian America. "America is no longer a majority white Christian nation."
NPR has a signature sound; their director of audio engineering explains how they do it
Tyler Cowen on Brexit: "ultimately the vote was about preserving the English nation"
Starting today, the Chicago Sun-Times will run a weekly "from the archives" movie review by Roger Ebert in the paper
Some good news today: Obama just designated the site of the Stonewall Uprising as a US National Monument
Need a meditative break? Alto's Adventure is on sale right now for only $0.99
An investigation into where the phrase "booty call" came from
The Democrats Are Boldly Fighting For a Bad, Stupid Bill. "The no-fly list is a civil rights disaster..."
Oh no, photographer Bill Cunningham is in the hospital recovering from a stroke
Confirmed: Darth Vader will be in Star Wars Rogue One (duh!)
An extensive analysis of the typography and design of Blade Runner
The Bloop Guide to Summer Parties. (Bloop = Goop for/by black women)
NY Times' guide to How to Run a Faster Marathon
Jesus, the spin on the ball from Federer's backhand maxes out at 5300 rpm
Russia's entire track and field team has been barred from the Rio Olympics because of systematic doping
Smoked pork is the only barbecue, sandwiches only come on sliced bread, and there are only six PIV sex positions
A stage-to-film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's HAMILTON, with the original cast, will be filmed before LMM leaves
When did America break your heart? For @tressiemcphd, it was the Rodney King beating
The Neu Jorker is an magazine-length, Onion-style parody of The New Yorker:
Smart post by crypto scholar @matthew_d_green explaining differential privacy and how Apple might implement it
Federal appeals court upholds FCC ruling that high-speed internet is a public utility
The New York Times Discovers Pizza — archival mentions beginning in the 1940s ht @xor
How the most successful people poop at work, by @lindsaygoldwert for @FastCompany:
Microsoft is buying LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, all cash
Loved this story about working with a nerdy Kanye West on an album before he was famous
Whoa, Gawker to file for bankruptcy; company to be sold
A reminder of the crushing sexism in America when Hillary Clinton was younger. E.g. marital rape was legal.
Just try not to play with this for 20 minutes: an interactive chart of US voting habits
Comedy Central has put every single Key & Peele sketch online
Obama endorses Hillary Clinton in YouTube video. That's a strong, compelling statement.
Nikole Hannah-Jones on Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City
Who are the characters in HBO's Silicon Valley based on? Peter Thiel, Marissa Mayer, and Sean Parker for starters.
Actual headline: "Uranus takes a pounding more frequently than thought." First line is "Uranus isn't just gassy…"
A list of pop culture's fastest cars, including Herbie, the DeLorean, the ECTO-1 & the Ferrari from Ferris Bueller
Current perfume fad: the smell of old books
260+ videos of Errol Morris' commercial work are up on Vimeo, including his classic High Life ads
What genocide looks like: the US Native American population is just now approaching pre-1492 levels again
Companies hear "wedding" & start charging you high prices. Here are some suggestions on how to route around that.
Missed this last fall: Matt Zoller Seitz's collection of Mad Men recaps. "This book is a time machine."
Pfizer Releases Vintage Cask-Aged Robitussin
An in-depth comparison of Apple Maps and Google Maps
"You would never teach anyone to fight like Muhammad Ali. That would be crazy."
The Ultimate Wedding Playlist: FiveThirtyEight polled readers for their wedding reception playlists. Hey Ya was #1.
Happy sobs: girl w/ prosthetic leg gets a doll w/ prosthetic leg. This is why representation is important.
Big NY Times feature on Chicago gun violence over Memorial Day; 64 people shot, 6 dead
The WSJ built an algorithm to analyze the rhymes in Hamilton's lyrics
PT Anderson working on a movie about the fashion industry w/ Daniel Day-Lewis, set in NYC in the 50s
Malcolm Gladwell's forthcoming podcast "on the forgotten and the misunderstood"
The Bot Power List for 2016. Super idea. I hope they keep this updated.
The NY Times is sharing memorable obituaries from their archive. Today's is Helen Keller's.
The 10 Best Museums in NYC You've Never Heard Of (I've lived here awhile + museum fanboy = been to 6 of these...)
Nick Bilton updates us on what's been happening at Twitter for the past year
What does it mean to be poor? A study of three German families reveals no easy answer.
Commuter flow maps: where workers in every US county commute to and from
Mostly unseen photographs from early in the career of Diane Arbus
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