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Quick Links for November 2017

November 30
This is AWFUL: a fake surveillance camera for your kid's room that "reports bad behavior to Santa"
Outside magazine to their readers who don't care about sexual harassment: unsubscribe.
NYC has genetically distinct "uptown" and "downtown" rats. Even rats obey the 14th St demarcation.
Thought-provoking idea of the day: "domesticated animals are gradually learning to talk"
November 29
So, the Flat Earth Society believes that the Earth is flat but that Mars is round. Gotcha.
Two Million Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Derek Thompson's advice to media companies in the current climate is evergreen: "Pivot to readers."
A Photo Trip Along the Ancient Silk Road, a journey of some 4000 miles from Xi'an, China to Syria & Lebanon
Mark Twain's Disturbing Passion for Collecting Young Girls
November 28
Love these BOOK LOVERS NEVER GO TO BED ALONE letterpress prints by Amos Kennedy...only $10! All proceeds benefit the Elmwood Park Library in Detroit.
An Optimist's Guide to Divorce
Brutal advice about making one's work better: "Try making yourself a more interesting person"
Whoa, WeWork is buying Meetup (a company I thought would never sell)
November 27
The top 10 supercars from the 1980s. I knew even before I started watching that the Countach was #1.
You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult
Is This the End of the NFL? When you've lost Bob Costas...
FYI, you can ride old NYC subway cars every Sunday in December on the M line from 2nd Ave to Queens Plaza
A new short story from Margaret Atwood: The Martians Claim Canada
The Creative Shopkeeper. Paged through this one at the bookstore the other day...a good look at some recent creative innovations in retail.
November 24
Quentin Tarantino's next movie is set in LA in 1969, backdropped by the Charles Manson murders
November 22
"Christ, what an asshole" is the perfect New Yorker cartoon caption but also works for everything Peter Thiel does these days
Uber will never ever change or "get better". Seriously, stop giving them your money.
November 21
Did Paris Hilton and Britney Spears invent the selfie in 2006? (Spoiler alert: No.)
Bail Bloc: you can mine cryptocurrency in a browser tab to post bail for low-income people detained in New York
November 20
Jeffrey Tambor will not return to Transparent for a 5th season after multiple sexual harassment allegations
How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York's Subways
November 16
Another pair of merging black holes found by LIGO. Amazing how quickly this became a normal occurence.
Scientists announced the first confirmed case of CTE found in a living person (a former NFL player)
Podfasters: Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds (up to 3X!!) I recently listened to an audiobook at 1.25X and it was almost too fast for me
Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America. (I'm going to go with "clearly, yes".)
The title for the Fantastic Beasts sequel announced: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Matt Yglesias: Bill Clinton should have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky affair
For its 25th anniversary, a remastered Automatic for the People by REM. Includes 2 hours of live and demo tracks.
November 15
EFF: TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports
Searching the genomes of those who live for 110+ years for genetic clues to longevity
The Richer Scale, a logarithmic scale for tracking personal wealth by orders of magnitude
New trailer for Deadpool 2 spoofs The Joy of Painting
November 14
Why the Movies Are So Obsessed With Capes. "Simply put, there are a lot of capes in Star Wars."
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met. Creeeeeeepy.
"For each person on earth, there are 17 million flies." (I think *my* 17 million are all in my house rn driving me crazy.)
"Your story is a first-person account of the passenger in Seat 14C, on ANA Flight #008, as this passenger discovers they've mysteriously been transported 20 years into the future"
Bill Gates on why he's investing in more Alzheimer's disease research
Wallpapers for iPhone X that hide the notch. Includes Sketch & Photoshop templates so I made my own. (Still don't like the notch.)
November 13
An interesting short piece about how collective "steadying" on wobbly bridges can lead to dangerous swaying
November 12
Gal Gadot won't sign on for the Wonder Woman sequel unless Brett Ratner (accused by 6 women of sexual harassment/assault) is removed from involvement on the film
Did you know you can follow @kottke's visual posts on Pinterest
November 10
Russell Shorto, author of the excellent Island at the Center of the World, is back with a book about the Revolution
November 9
Five women come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Louis CK
"x-ray" wallpapers for the iPhone X
Everything about this story is depressing
November 8
From @lauraolin, a Kickstarter for a children's book about Barack Obama
The NY Times editorial board comes out in favor of the popular vote in Presidential elections
A list of historic Democratic victories in the 2017 elections
November 7
'Every day brings some new trauma': keeping calm in an anxious world
Syria will sign the Paris climate accord, leaving the US as the only nation on Earth not part of the agreement
Sign of the time: Fog Creek Software introduces paid time off policy for extreme weather events
November 6
Harvey Weinstein hired private investigators to track, discredit, & intimidate women he'd assaulted (reporters too)
Nice new design for @colossal by @arminvit
A year's worth of breaking news notifications (I have these permanently turned off...I am not a masochist)
November 3
Travel Oregon built a playable 2017 version of Oregon Trail
Nice little Powder magazine video about the single chair lift at Mad River Glen, my local ski area
November 2
After employees vote to unionize, Gothamist is shut down by its owner
The four types of journalist: The Storyteller, The Newshound, The Systems Analyst, The Provocateur
"Both online giants, Google and Facebook, have concluded that showing ads is the right way to tackle adblocking"
A deep dive into how the 25th Amendment works and how sick/disabled/dead Presidents have been handled before
Food trend double standard: "When men enjoy something, they elevate it. When women enjoy something, they ruin it."
November 1
The case for a "Raise Your Hand" Girl Scout patch
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