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Quick Links for November 2016

November 30
The Tyler Durden theory of Sex and the City: Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda are all the same person
Astronauts see flashes of light, even with their eyes closed, likely from unshielded cosmic rays
Indie online magazine The Millions has launched their membership initiative. Go support them!
Great Scifi Movies You May Have Missed in 2016
From @tedgioia, an eclectic non-mainstream list of the best 100 albums of 2016. A glaring omission IMO: Lemonade.
Digital natives struggle with traditional therapy; some therapists don't understand the internet and its pressures
November 29
Honest museum audio tours; "As you can see, this room is a bunch of rugs hanging on a wall, so we can skip it."
Interesting-looking children's book: Timeline: A Visual History of Our World
Watching "Arrival" After the Election, a lovely reflection on a wonderful movie by @jiatolentino
The Paris Review has put their entire 63-year archive online
In the near future, we'll have to call it the Great Barely A Reef
Hollywood blockbusters are increasingly made for Chinese audiences
Space terms explained (including the difference between a planet and dwarf planet)
November 28
The first successful C-section in history? Perhaps in 1337 in Prague.
Superheroes of color (representation matters!)
All McDonald's locations will get kiosk ordering & table service after tests saw higher sales & customer happiness
All of Bach, a new recording of J.S. Bach's music every week (plus 140-work archive)
Writer Celeste Ng: Giving Thanks Is a Political Act; "my very existence is political through no choice of my own"
November 26
The Miami Herald has a long and unforgiving obituary of Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro is dead at age 90
November 25
The Instant Pot pressure cooker is on sale for $69 (47% off)
November 23
How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire. This is a good story about Pixar with a bad title.
25 of the most historically significant bootleg recordings (Dylan, The Beatles, Bowie, The Dead, etc.)
A Young Black Girl's View of Harlem at the Height of the Great Migration
Election security expert J. Alex Halderman: Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots.
Woodworking for beginners
November 22
In a new book, Elena Ferrante gives her readers "a vibrant and intimate self-portrait" of herself as an author
Farm Hack is "a worldwide community of farmers that build and modify [their] own tools"
November 21
Steven Johnson: How play leads to great inventions
Instant buy: restored Godfather trilogy on Blu-ray for only $17
This seems like a rare good acquisition of a smaller principled company: How Burt's Bees Disrupted Clorox
Philosopher Charles Taylor: "democracy is a fiction that we're trying to realize"
Profile of Charlie Brooker and Black Mirror from The New Yorker
Weird New Cereal Sets Tone For First Weekend At Divorced Dad's
November 18
There's something — I don't know, charming? — about this interview with restaurateur Keith McNally.
The Pokémon Cookbook! (Note: this book does not teach you how to cook Pokémon characters.)
Sometimes Dave Chappelle sings Radiohead's Creep at the SNL afterparty and everything is ok
David Remnick writes about Obama, just before and after the 2016 election
November 17
The stories of what 15 different families eat for Thanksgiving
In small doses, loneliness can be beneficial
Nice recent interview with Robert Caro about power and focusing on the powerless
In Praise of the Little Fancy Bitch Aesthetic
In order to speak fluently about issues like sex, gender, etc., GLAAD's media reference guide is helpful
This week, Nov 14-20, is Transgender Awareness Week.
November 16
Regarding Cocktails, a book of cocktail recipes and advice from legendary bartender Sasha Petraske
A tiny sliver of good news: Three Lives bookstore in the West Village signed a new long-term lease!
November 15
What it's like at the NYC playground; "I've never cried behind that tree."
Anime master Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement to make one last film
Designed by Apple in California, a new book from Apple detailing the last 20 years of Apple design
Westworld got renewed for a second season
November 14
$2 for Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Great book.
We Have No Idea, a science book from the creator of PHD Comics and a particle physicist
On the calming effect and appeal of farming and truck simulator games
Primary school bans homework after pupils and parents voted to read books instead https://t.co/twK7F2scGb
November 11
Amazon says the NES Classic will go on sale at 5pm ET today (very limited quantities though)
November 10
Time capsule: a NY Times profile of the Notorious B.I.G. from 1994
Coming to the Park Avenue Armory: Manifesto, a film in which Cate Blanchett performs as 13 different characters
A+ Kickstarter: An 8-yo girl was so excited about being made of "star stuff" she wrote a children's book about it.
November 7
Glenn Beck in the New Yorker: "Obama made me a better man." Had to check this wasn't Borowitz or Daily Shouts.
You Don't Need a Master Plan You Just Need to Start (*nods vigorously*)
Even The Onion is having trouble writing about this self-satirizing election
A nice interview with Gail Bichler and her team about their wonderfully designed NY Times Magazine covers
James Gleick: time to get rid of time zones
The voice for AOL's "You've Got Mail" is now an Ohio Uber driver
November 6
The Paris Agreement to address climate change is now international law
The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign
November 4
Gorgeous shot of Central Park in the fall by Joe Holmes
It's a cat playing a theremin
There is now a Die Hard coloring book (added to my holiday wishlist)
November 3
The Mac startup sound might be going away
The Movie Franchises That Died in 2016 (incl. Zoolander, Ghostbusters, Ice Age, Divergent, Jack Reacher)
Tinybop's new kids app, Me, looks great. "Me is all about your life, in your words, pictures, and photos."
A Devil's Dictionary of the 2016 election; "Merrick Garland (n.): a synonym for purgatory"
November 2
Rao's is New York's most exclusive restaurant
The Gawker lawsuits are over and settled says Nick Denton. Super LOL: "Life is short, for most of us."
Ben Thompson: Apple Should Buy Netflix
Slack took out a full-page NY Times ad congratulating Microsoft on launching a competitive product
Happy to hear the Serbian Orthodox Church on 26th St in NYC will be restored after a devastating fire
Bummed about Talkshow shutting down, it was a great idea. Looking forward to seeing what the team does next.
November 1
Cruise, Blunt, and director Doug Liman are returning for a sequel to Edge of Tomorrow (which was great)
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is doing a new show for Amazon
Noel Gallagher Spent Years Moving Furniture Around to Make Liam Believe in Ghosts (The most Noel thing ever?)
Nice redesign of The Verge this morning
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