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Quick Links for June 2018

Alto's Odyssey is on sale for $1.99 for a limited time only
I can't wait until this goes off in some guy's front pocket when he jumps down from a ledge
The 100 Greatest YouTube Videos of All Time (My list wouldn't be quite so meme-heavy.)
Books Where the Dog Dies, Rewritten So the Dog Doesn't Die
McSweeney's on the experience of going to the doctor while female. "But do me the favor of allowing me to disregard everything you've presented to me."
Painters often don't depict lightning accurately...perhaps because before photography, people couldn't capture its complexity in their mind's eye
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything. "The vast majority of the world's books, music, films, television and art, you will never see."
The original map of the Hundred Acre Wood is up for auction at Sotheby's. Estimate is £100,000-150,000.
Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More than $100 Billion. In 3-5 years, Instagram will eclipse Facebook.
The Supreme Court upheld Trump's ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries. For those counting at home, that's 3 checks and no balances. They're just gonna do whatever they want.
Colonialism changed the geology of our planet
The titles of books, movies, and plays rewritten in the form of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. "Are You There Whale? It's Me, Ahab"
Servers can't afford to live in San Francisco, so restaurants there are becoming more self-serve (even the sit-down ones)
Fast casual on Wall Street means $185 sandwiches made from A5 Ozaki wagyu imported from Japan. "It literally melts in your mouth, with the sensation of a beefy cloud."
Amazing air-conditioning hack in an NYC taxi
A giant Keith Haring mural painted in 1986 was just uncovered after being hidden for almost 30 years
We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners. "I don't blame staff members at the Red Hen for not wanting to help Sanders unwind after a hard week of lying to the public about mass child abuse."
Robin Sloan has relaunched and remastered his tap essay, Fish
Supreme Court Upholds Gerrymandered Texas Maps, Dealing a Blow to Voting Rights
An entertaining and informative history of the Speak & Spell
George Prochnik writing for the New Yorker: "When It's Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig"
Energy: A Human History, a new book by Richard Rhodes, one of my favorite authors (he wrote The Making of the Atomic Bomb)
Love this story by Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku about what he went through to become a professional footballer
A Conversation With My Friend Who Really Wants To Have Sex With Mr. Incredible
Immigrant World Cup athletes from many nations explain their experience of identity, outsider status, and patriotism
An important SCOTUS decision holds that a warrant is required to obtain most private data from a third-party
The Texas Tribune has gathered its 30+ stories on families separated/imprisoned on the border all in one spot:
Terrific essay on Letraset rubdown typography and its impact on pop culture from the 60s through the 80s
On Cindy Sherman, and the blending of fiction and reality that comes with self-portraiture
"Shakira, who is married to Iniesta's teammate, Gerard Piqué, famously said that hips don't lie. But Iniesta's do."
This car has a shield that slides down over the license plate to avoid paying tolls
Older bigger fish are found in deeper water not because of intrinsic biology but because humans are fishing them out of the shallower water
Canada has legalized the recreational use of marijuana
How I Broke, and Botched, the Brandon Teena Story. "The original writer of the Village Voice story that inspired "Boys Don't Cry" looks back on her reporting - and the huge error she still regrets"
This is an important point: "You'd have a hard time finding an extended period of American history where children and parents of color weren't forcefully separated from one another by the white power structure in this country."
Trailer for Creed II. Creed vs Drago, Round II.
Koko the gorilla has died at the age of 46. She learned to understand more than 1000 modified ASL signs and 2000 words of spoken English.
The Billion-Dollar, Secretive Business of Operating Shelters for Migrant Children. (Again, not "shelters" but "concentration camps", "internment camps", or "jails".)
"What's chilling about 'Incredibles 2' is its vision of born leaders with an unimpeachable moral compass to whom all right-thinking people should swear allegiance and invest confidence."
9 Books About the Contemporary Immigrant Experience in America
What If This Were Enough?, a new book of essays from the "whip-smart and profanely funny" Heather Havrilesky
Tyler Cowen: "the governance technologies and strategies of authoritarian regimes have become much more efficient"
A good look at the scale of the SpaceX rockets compared to more familiar objects. The Falcon 9 landing legs are *massive*.
Wow, Atul Gawande will be the CEO of the new healthcare company formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase
How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country. Systematically weakening government & public infrastructure in the name of lower taxes.
I cannot attend this year, but I would encourage you to go to XOXO...the Andys & co throw a top notch fest
Juneteenth is an American holiday that commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas. "In many ways, Juneteenth represents how freedom and justice in the US has always been delayed for black people."
"I am Mokgadi Caster Semenya. I am a woman and I am fast."
How to blow cool-looking bubbles. TIL that top bubble blowers have a proprietary soap mixture that needs to be adjusted to the local environment (humidity, air quality, etc.)
A Voronoi diagram for the world's airports. "Each region is closer to a particular airport than any other."
From Michelle Wolf's show on Netflix, we discover why the NY Times Opinion section has so many bad takes
Self care: 100 of the best episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood are available on Amazon Prime
Who invented computer passwords?
I am not in favor of capital punishment or punitive justice but Stephen Miller is really really really testing my convictions right now. What a repugnant human being.
Beyoncé & Jay-Z just dropped a new album called Everything Is Love and it's only available on Tidal
Frontline & NPR examined internal FEMA documents, concluding the agency badly botched hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico
Photos of "some smaller and more unusual" soccer fields from around the world
An animated map of Walmart's growth across the US from 1962-2006
Ed Yong writes about our lack of preparation for a possible disease pandemic that, because of globalization, could be worse than the 1918 flu that killed 100 million people.
The Stanford Prison Experiment, of the most famous psychology experiments, was a sham
A journalist visits a shelter for detained child migrants in Texas. "It felt like a prison or a jail." And unlicensed tent cities are yet to come. This is inhumane.
This Olive Garden TV commercial dialogue may or may have been written by a bot, but it is definitely funny. "We see the unlimited stick. It is infinite. It is all."
MetaFilter's financial future is not looking good (tl;dr: ad revenues from Google are way down)
Flopstarter, a collection of fake and often hilarious crowdfunding campaigns, e.g. "Vintage Food: A food market serving real people's leftovers in rustic paper boxes."
Copenhagenize your city: the case for urban cycling in 12 graphs
NY Times: Antarctica Is Melting More Than Twice as Fast as in 2012
Ugh, a map of hotspots in the US showing where kids aren't being vaccinated. Dangerous stupidity.
"If women make seventy-seven cents on the male dollar, 'Ocean's 11' multiplied by the wage gap will give you 'Ocean's 8.'"
The USA, Canada, and Mexico will host the 2026 World Cup. Well, I know what I'm doing that summer.
At ~3:00 in this video, a passerby recognizes a famous pizza review YouTuber but completely misses that Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Jeremy Renner, et al. are also right there. Online celebrity is the new world order.
Banksy anonymously submitted art to an exhibition; it was rejected. Then they asked him to submit something and accepted a similar piece. Not sure what this reflects most poorly on, the exhibition's judgment or Banksy's art.
Australian Shiraz is the perfect wine to pair with a Shake Shack burger
There are currently two feature films in development about the Gawker Media / Hulk Hogan lawsuits
An explanation of how a spray bottle works (more interesting than you might think)
This Volvo commercial really tugs at the ol' parental heartstrings but ultimately reminds us that cars are really really dangerous
Image memes from the 1600s, the precursor to stuff like Distracted Boyfriend
"Voters have been struck from the rolls in Democratic-leaning neighborhoods at roughly twice the rate as in Republican neighborhoods." *whispers* The coup has already taken place...
"Hanna is a person who falls in love with one thing and then falls in love with another thing and then, instead of letting go of the first, just adds on."
"This looks like a Renaissance painting" should really be "This looks like a Baroque painting"
A newly discovered process may be able to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere relatively cheaply
Bourdain: let's talk about someone who could appreciate a Waffle House
An interactive map of every lighthouse in North America; UI is a little basic, but this is still fun to browse
I really liked "The making of Doris Burke." Includes great clips of her hooping it up in high school.
"Cry a bit more and think a little less." 30 Comedians Give Advice to Their Younger Selves
A lost John Coltrane studio recording with his classic quartet from 1963 has been rediscovered and released
If you need to talk to someone, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline "provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress" 1-800-273-8255.
Anthony Bourdain has died of an apparent suicide. He was 61.
Kenji Lopez-Alt picks his favorite fast food items in a bunch of different categories. Smashburger get the Best Burger award.
Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal but every other beat is missing
When dealing with extremist groups like white supremacists, journalists should consider using "strategic silence" in their coverage to reduce public harm
Why Did We Ever Leave Mister Rogers' Neighborhood? "Mister Rogers simply took you seriously and made room for whatever you might be feeling."
The editorial staff of the New Yorker has formed a union
What celeb power couple ruled Hollywood the year you were born? Mine: Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw.
Adam Rutherford explains what it's like being the science advisor for films like Annihilation
Kate Spade is dead at age 55 of an apparent suicide
Trailer for a documentary film about writer Ursula K. Le Guin
More basketball statistics and analysis like this please
Great quiz idea. "Who Said It: Philip and Elizabeth From The Americans or Philip and Elizabeth From The Crown?"
An interview with Poot McFarlin, whose country bluegrass band played at Kanye's album release after-party
"I Wish I Could Keep Microdosing LSD"
The Psychology of Money, a thought-provoking list of "20 flaws, biases, and causes of bad behavior I've seen pop up often when people deal with money"
I enjoyed this interview about journalism & entrepreneurship with @espiers, @choire, @kbandersen, and @ericacerulo
The future Kubrick didn't predict: you can buy the flatware set used in 2001: A Space Odyssey on Amazon
Microsoft is buying Github for $7.5 billion
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Don't Survive to Become Seniors
Physicists at FermiLab may have evidence of a new elementary particle: a "sterile" neutrino
Here's Romeo and Juliet in a reconstructed version of the English accent in Shakespeare's time
Come be my neighbor: "Vermont will pay you $10,000 to move there and work remotely"
Next week, Stewart Brand is hosting an event in SF on the legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog, 50 years later
Lots of good stuff in the Ampersunder Monthly newsletter today. "What do I like to read? I'll know it when I see it. Or, better, I'll become the person who wants to read that book when I see it."
Kickstarter campaign for The Second Shelf, "a new quarterly print publication focused on increasing the visibility of women's writing and contributions throughout history"
New Kanye album. 23 minutes. First track is "I Thought About Killing You".
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