THINGS I LIKE
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Before I went to see Before Midnight, I watched Before Sunrise and commented that it was startling, even as someone who’s seen it many times, to...
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If Yahoo buys Tumblr...
In 2007, I was drinking coffee in Marco’s livingroom/dining room/office. He told me he and David had launched...
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Street Faces by Aurélien Fontanet
When you laugh, the world laughs with you. Often times literally with creepy faces that appear...
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Mark Ghuneim and David Peris dug up this delicious chestnut from January, 1999: “Internet search...
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Patrick Stewart’s incredibly personal and powerful story...
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For readers with a rustic aesthetic: reclaimed wood Tribeca Shelf by GreenFurnitureDesign.
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Yahoo paid billions for a somewhat-Tumblr-like site back in the '90s
- $3.6B was the amount Yahoo bought Geocities for back in 1999. Remember...
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In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest...
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Thanks to everyone who came to my surprise baby shower today! My heart still feels warm from seeing the gym full of so many people and the work that went into the planning and decorating. I love you guys.
A group of researchers in Oregon have successfully cloned human embryos. No, really:
The researchers, at Oregon Health and Science University, took skin cells from a baby with a genetic disease and fused them with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were…
Umbilical cord banks everywhere must be panicking!
A Mother’s Day present from health care reform: Being a mom will no longer be a pre-existing condition. http://wh.gov/JPY7
Kind of crazy that this was even the case before. Small steps forward.
Oscillate, Mesmerizing Animation of Increasingly Complex Patterns
Beautiful visuals. I miss having visualizations that represent the music you listen to. Remember how Winamp used to have that? I wish Spotify would make it an option.
Best looking cookies I’ve ever made — still too cakey though, need a crunchier outside. Suggestions?
May 2, 1963: The Birmingham Campaign’s Children’s Crusade Begins
On this day in 1963, the Children’s Crusade began as hundreds of students walked out of their classrooms to peacefully protest segregation laws in Birmingham, Alabama. They were met by police officers who were ready to escort them to jail, and later by high pressure fire hoses and police dogs.
It would become a major catalyst for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and usher a new era of freedom and equality in the United States.
Revisit this moment in civil rights history with PBS Black Culture Connection’s Birmingham Campaign collection.
Photo: African American children are attacked by dogs and water cannons during a protest against segregation organized by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth in May 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images).
Our country has come a long way — but there is still a lot of ground to cover.
Nayah Damasen
Game 3 of the Warriors v. Nuggets series Friday night was hands down the most electric basketball game I’ve ever been to. We stood for almost all of the fourth quarter and the crowd was incredible — even the quiet Nuggets fan that sat next to us gave the husband a pat on the back on the way out.
It started out in a magnificent way — with 8 year old Nayah Damasen, who sang her little heart out and didn’t seem fazed that she was singing in front of a sold out Oracle Arena.
thank you for your honesty
the way it spilled out of your lips more potent than the stench of vodka in your breath
it has been years since someone has had the bravery to look at me in the face
and tell me what they are actually thinkingyou see
i just came from a dance party
what i mean…
