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After 19 years, MetaFilter changes ownership
Buying things vs. experiences: "Nobody in history bought anything for any reason other than how it made them feel"
Hey, Black America, Let's All Ditch Our Slave Names
Succinct piece on how thinking fondly of past imperialism invites poor decisions about the future
LOL, only the NY Times would publish an article called "The Case for Cursing" and not use any actual profanity
Lynching in America, confronting the legacy of racial terror
Organization headed by Laurene Powell Jobs buys a majority stake in The Atlantic. Full ownership in ~5 years.
Prepare for traffic jams and food/bathroom shortages on eclipse day
This iOS-compatible system can stream audio from your iPhone directly to a cochlear implant
Alien Still Hasn't Gotten Around To Listening To Whole Voyager Golden Record
Everything You Need to Know About Messi and Ronaldo
Book critic Michiko Kakutani is stepping down from the NY Times
NFL player John Urschel retired abruptly today, shortly after the disturbing results of CTE study were released
Hillary Clinton's memoir about the 2016 election is called "What Happened" and it's out in Sept.
Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for Dunkirk is outstanding
DNA evidence is rewriting domestication origin stories
Adobe will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020
The Toast is quietly back for one day
OTOH, I wasn't super into Stranger Things, but the season 2 trailer is great
Was really looking forward to this, but the trailer for Ready Player One has to be one of the worst I've ever seen
111 NFL players' brains were examined and all but one of them had brain damage (CTE)
Michael Lewis: being lazy is the key to success
Atypical is a Netflix comedy series about a young man on the autism spectrum "searching for love and independence"
For around $200, you can build a solar micro-grid for your bedroom with parts from Amazon
How Instagram is changing the design of restaurants
PSA: force quitting apps on iOS to save the battery is dumb
The International Space Station is now on Google Street View
Steven Soderbergh has shot a feature-length movie on an iPhone; it stars Claire Foy (The Crown)
Bustle surveyed young women on how dating has changed since the election (30% are dating less or not at all)
Michael Oher's NFL career might be over due to concussions (Oher was the subject of Michael Lewis' The Blind Side)
There's a new brand called Brandless™ and it's not a brand but totally a brand
Don't Trust What the Fake News Media Says About Cersei Lannister
Courage is Contagious, a book of essays celebrating Michelle Obama
Climate change solutions, pick one: more wind farms, eat less meat, improve air conditioners, more mass transit?
Tyler Cowen talks with Atul Gawande about checklists, CRISPR, Ferrante, healthcare, and Stevie Wonder
A database of 5000 years of solar eclipses (from 2000 BCE to 3000 CE)
Programming note: @kottke recently switched to a new server. You shouldn't have noticed a thing. Thanks, Arcustech!
If you didn't get one via the Kickstarter, The Field Study Handbook is now for sale on Amazon
After her ex-husband died from a secret drug habit, @eilenez investigated drug abuse among lawyers
The 13th incarnation of Doctor Who will be a woman. Jodie Whittaker will star in the title role.
Alan Kay remembers when Steve Jobs visited Xerox Parc to see the Alto
How was this not called the Tolkien ring?!
Trailer for a documentary on typewriters. Who knew Tom Hanks was such a huge typewriter nerd?
"Why is this even our responsibility to fix? Women didn't invent sexism. Men did."
Gay Talese reads an excerpt from his famous magazine piece, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
Noooooooo. Cup & Saucer is closing! Noooooo.
That massive Delaware-sized iceberg has finally broken off of the Antarctic ice shelf
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
This story balances out every single Florida Man story I've ever heard
States I've Visited (and you can make your own)
Unfashionable opinion: Paul Ford likes NYC in the summer. (I do too.)
Cool image simplification app
With recent discoveries and DNA research, the human family tree becomes clearer. Nice overview by Carl Zimmer.
Muji is opening two hotels in the next two years in Shenzhen and Tokyo
Imagining the future of football...in 17776 A.D. This is magnificently weird.
No surprise: Jay-Z's 4:44 was pirated a bunch (lots of old Bittorrent clients got dusted off last week)
Jump rope kids with Steve Reich accompaniment (this is mesmerizing)
The internet cat simulator (you can set parameters for meowing and purring)
Baby Driver soundtrack (haven't seen this yet, have heard only very good and very bad things about it)
Just arrived in my reading pile: A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
From 1984, an East German secret police training video for clandestinely breaking into apartments
Massive iceberg the size of Delaware is about to break off of Antarctic ice shelf
ELEMENT: How Kendrick Lamar Collaborates
I've automated my job. Is it ethical to not tell my employer?
"I Only Protested the ACA Because the President Was Black. Please Don't Take Away My Health Insurance."
For your karaoke and sing-along needs: an official instrumental version of the Hamilton soundtrack
Nice story in the Times about @dens, his upstate NY soccer team @StockadeFC, and the bigger mission
Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment
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