July 22, 2022
Nike Blue
"Forget Niketown. To a certain extent we are all citizens of Nikeland now. [NYT]" The brand turns 50. [more inside]
I photoshop Paddington into a movie or TV show every day until I forget
Meet Jason Chou - when he isn't studying to be a VFX artist, he is photoshopping Paddington Bear into your favorite movies, tv shows and video games. [more inside]
Lepp allots herself precisely 49 days to write and self-edit a book.
A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the mid 2000s.
Dan McKinley has a Twitter thread about working at Etsy in the mid 2000s, including:
It was scheduled for 3PM, but didn’t start until 3:30 because my interviewer was “really hung over.”
and
Steve had this intricate conspiracy theory he believed in centered around Bertrand Russell, which I never figured out.
and
There was an internal Flash endpoint you could use to exfiltrate all of our sales data, and in fact there was a whole other company that had figured this out and was selling our sales insights to Etsy sellers. [more inside]
The United States of Amazon: Same day treatment only for Prime members
Amazon said it had reached a $3.9 billion deal to acquire One Medical, a network of primary care clinics. As monopoly capitalism grows unchecked, Amazon's seriously dystopian forays into healthcare make the prospect of Medicare for All basically impossible. With access to incredible amounts of consumer data, the privacy implications are grim.
"The UES is a community and we need to be considerate of others"
Would we allow police to search the sacred precincts of marital bedrooms
Yesterday’s passage of H.R. 8373-The Right to Contraception Act, in the U.S.A.’s House of Representatives brought back into focus the looming threat to Griswold v. Connecticut. [more inside]
The Everything Musical Instrument
What kind of instrument would a type designer invent? The Daxophone is a bowed instrument that can seemingly conjure up any noise. This is probably an exaggeration, but when you listen to kazuhisa uchihashi recent album Singing Daxophone, you certainly do get that sense. [more inside]
Hero cat liberates underground city of friendly robots
Stray follows a brave cat's journey through a world without humans, making robot friends along the way. Dog review. Cat reviews. More cat reviews. IGN. RPS.
Dawn and Dusk Get Accessorized
Adopted tawny owlets get fluffier, wigglier, doted on, scooped into a bag, popped into another bag like confused groceries, admired by humans, and then dropped back home before parents return. [more inside]
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