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Quick Links for October 2016

New Mozart box set contains over 240 hours of music across 200 CDs (incl. 7 with "Works of Doubtful Authenticity")
1.5 million people live in the Bronx...and the borough's only bookstore is closing
Whoa! Had no idea there was a pronounciation battle over "read" in "read receipts" (I say "reed")
LOL, an animated GIF startup is worth $600 million
Rave review for Fleabag. I highly recommend this show.
The three types of friendships
More about inspiring entrepreneurs like Angelica Nwandu, please.
IT CONTINUES. Publishers Weekly's 10 best books of 2016.
IT BEGINS. The best films of 2016 so far.
A remarkable remembrance of journalist Jennifer Frey, whose life & meteoric career was undone by alcoholism
GifCities, the Geocities animated GIF search engine you didn't know you needed ("browser" is a good search)
Twitter is shutting down Vine. I kinda do and don't understand this.
A new version of David Macauley's bestselling The Way Things Work includes updates like 3d printers & touchscreens
MoMA has acquired the original set of 176 emoji produced for NTT DOCOMO
New book: The Women Who Made New York. (Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, Fran Lebowitz, etc.) https://t.co/uhzheKvkVr
Baby boomers have been a disaster for America, and Trump is their biggest mistake yet
This looks helpful: Demystifying Public Speaking by @lara_hogan
Whoa whoa whoa, the B&W version of Mad Max: Fury Road is now streaming on Amazon
Interesting new cookbook from the @food52 founders: A New Way to Dinner.
The three-card monte con is still alive and well on the streets of NYC
Jodi of @legalnomads on her chronic pain and how she's managing it. This is a journey toward wisdom.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is working to become the world's youngest ever chess grandmaster
The McMansion Scale explained (with photos of truly terrible houses)
New Run the Jewels single from their upcoming new album
Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8. If you've got kids who play football, now's the time to stop.
Nice update + profile on Anthony Bourdain and his NYC foodhall plans (Parts Unknown is excellent)
Al Franken's 10 favorite SNL political sketches
If you missed the Hamilton documentary last night, it's available on the PBS site here
Love to see Kodak going back to their iconic logo (with a slight refresh)
How to start running
Insta-purchase —> The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
LOL "Higgs bison"
How to help an injured bird
"A mixologist is just a bartender with fresh ginger on hand who will wait 5 min. longer to punch you the fuck out."
Art of the Menu highlights well-designed restaurant menus
Electric Objects announced the EO2, their next generation art display
How people learn to become resilient
I enjoyed this defense of PHP as a good environment for building web projects
Beautiful book of plant photography from Phaidon
How the Cleveland baseball team came to be called "Indians"
You Might Not Need Javascript; skip the coding with these HTML and CSS techniques
Gramercy Park pisses me off every time I go by
Utilizing the "Dutch reach" could help reduce cyclists getting doored by parked cars
Phrase of the day: "charismatic megafauna"
BMW's new concept motorcycle is built for superheroes
5 Reasons Why One of the Country's Best Pastry Chefs Turned His Back on Fine Dining (good interview)
A true friend; "There was something unique in Sam's affection, a miraculous kind of blind spot..."
"When had the Berenstain Bears found Christ? And why?"
The Best American Infographics 2016
Amazon announces Amazon Music Unlimited, a Spotify & Apple Music competitor
Why Women Pretended to Be Creepy Rocks and Trees in NYC Parks During WWI
An interview with a critic who reviews in-flight meals
The ABCs For Terribly Spoiled Children; "S is for summer, which is a verb."
Note: all Fran Lebowitz interviews are worth reading
Esquire has brought Spy Magazine back to life for the last month of the 2016 election
Letter of Complaint: Cards Against Humanity is actually terrible
Who will win The Next Great Stoic competition: Zeno, Epictetus, or Marcus Aurelius?
This Smartphone Microscope Lets You Play Games With Microbes
Surprisingly, the Earth only has the seventh-most water in our solar system. Jupiter's moon Ganymede has 30x more.
Love this story: 2 women who both work in news but don't know each other, one is giving the other a kidney
On Kickstarter: a series of children's books about women in science
Quick profile of Jan Chipchase, who runs one of the world's most interesting companies, Studio D Radiodurans
TCM & Criterion Collection are launching a streaming service "by people who love movies for people who love movies"
Josh Marshall of @tpm is writing a book about Trump and Trumpism. His writing about this election has been ace.
Using past messages and AI, Eugenia Kuyda built a chat bot for texting with her deceased friend
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
"Open source soccer". Fascinating piece by @dens on how to build a pro soccer club from scratch in under a year.
British swear words ranked by offensiveness. Surprised that "wanker" is rating so strongly; it's pretty tame in US.
Life Itself, the documentary about Roger Ebert, is free to watch online this week
Prime Reading: Amazon now offers 1000+ free books, magazines, comics, and kids books to Prime members
How to draw a pig
According to recent Pew Research polling, Americans' understanding of climate change is very very very poor
From Serious Eats, 8 tips for microwave cooking; the make-your-own-herbs thing sounds interesting
Mental Floss is shuttering their print magazine to focus on their digital media products
Fleabag was hilarious and awesome and delightful
My pal Adam is doing Trump-themed bike tours of NYC: Trump's Life in NYC, A History of Racism, Sexism, and Fascism
This is neat: throw and catch paper planes with people around the world (mobile only)
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