I really love this painting by Scott Naismith–the yellow and the pinks juxtaposed with the blues and grays, and the texture of the paint. I think it’s gorgeous.
Links this week are an unordered grab bag, I’m writing this as I am attempting to get everything together for Readercon so didn’t really have time to arrange them.
- Coworker With Two Computer Screens Not Fucking Around
- Cassandra Khaw: Vexed About Voice
- Whatever Happened to Freddie Prinze Jr.?
- Why the Humble Notebook Is Flourishing in the iPhone Era
- The Dark Side of Longform Journalism
- Think Gender Is Performance? You Have Judith Butler to Thank for That.
- This new site gets me: Maximum Middle Age; In Defense of Stuff: Marie Kondo Can Bite Me
- ‘Badass Librarians’ Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
- How Apple Made The Watch Work For Wheelchair Users This is really, really cool! I have an Apple Watch and it has really helped me to become a lot more active.
- I Lost $6,500 on My Last Book Launch: Details, final tally, lessons learned Oooof.
- Mississippi State Representative offers jaw-dropping response to diabetic child’s mother
- Ancient History: Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon’s The Black Gryphon
- This Magical J-Pop Cover of the ‘Ghostbusters’ Theme Puts Fall Out Boy’s to Shame
- Technical writers and “Subject-Matter Experts”
- Scientists Avoid Studying Women’s Bodies Because They Get Periods Girls are icky, y’all.
- Ridiculous Vines of hip-hop beats dropped behind fast-talking auctioneers
- Elie Wiesel Visits Disneyland
- Mom’s Invisible Hand
- Pounded by the pound: Brexit inspires its first erotic novel
- Dear 14-Year-Old Boy, You Are Not Entitled to Sex
- Venus Williams Makes a Call for Equality on the Wimbledon Courts
- A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors
- What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers
- My best employee quit on the spot because I wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation WOW.
- An Interview with the Guy Who Has Fred Durst’s Old Phone Number
- I have found a new way to watch TV, and it changes everything Or maybe you could be choosier about what you choose to watch? You don’t actually have to watch everything.
- This 10 Little Monkeys Parody Is The Best Thing You’ll Read, Maybe Ever
- Mapping the United Swears of America
- Machine Bias: There’s Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And it’s Biased Against Blacks. Gosh. Who could have guessed?
- After Attacks on Muslims, Many Ask: Where Is the Outpouring?
- How Samantha Bee Crashed the Late-Night Boys’ Club
- Navigating Negativity: How to Learn From and Love Your Critics
bluestgirl says
July 8, 2016 at 5:07 pm“Why the humble notebook” link is empty?
Selki says
July 10, 2016 at 1:51 pmOh, what a lovely painting.
Interesting Judith Butler article. I don’t think I’ve read her academic stuff, but I’ve definitely read about performativity.
That bad manager whose employee quit should have come in for them, so they could go to their college graduation.
Tenure extension policies: oh, man.
Pounded by Brexit: I guessed Chuck Tingle was the author!
*Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?* looks good.
Ros says
July 12, 2016 at 5:59 pm@bluestgirl: I found it here: https://newrepublic.com/article/134486/humble-notebook-flourishing-iphone-era