Ayelet Waldman spoke with The Atlantic about her daily media diet, and in the process discussed how she uses Twitter to overcome procrastination: It’s gotten so on days where I can’t work, or I’m just procrastinating — and I know it’s a bad day if I’m on a site looking at ugly dresses worn by [...]
The Netherlands is close to banning foreigners from buying pot: Known as the “Weed Pass,” the measure will turn coffee shops into private clubs for Dutch citizens over the age of 18. The memberships will last for a minimum of a year, and each shop will have a capped number of members. This is complicated [...]
Edith Zimmerman profiles future Captain America Chris Evans for GQ, gets drunk, passes out at his house, and doesn’t remember any of it: Up until half an hour earlier, I hadn’t actually known what did happen. In fact, I had spent the week practicing breezy and reportorial-sounding questions like “For fact-checking purposes, can you give [...]
The Atlantic offers a comprehensive walkthrough –with photos! — of the new iOS 5 features demonstrated during last week’s WWDC keynote address.
Aaron Sorkin interviews David Carr for Interview Magazine: SORKIN: What did you major in? CARR: Um … Frisbee and smoking doobies … But I did double major in journalism and psychology at the University of Minnesota. I began working at a great little weekly that no longer exists called the Twin Cities Reader. My first [...]
Grantland chronicles the rapid rise and fall of The National, an attempt at producing a national daily newspaper dedicated to sports that became infamous for spending money, shall we say, frivolously: [Editor-in-Cheief Frank] Deford: Oh, Christ. John [Feinstein] was overseas. The French Open ends. It’s another three weeks before Wimbledon. He calls me up and [...]
Ian Ranking overreacts, at The Quietus, about not receiving Radiohead’s deluxe newspaper album on time: Radiohead have tried to subvert the traditional system, to set themselves up as a cottage industry paid for by the fans and in tune with those fans. However, at a point in history when it has never seemed so important [...]
Chuck Klosterman — in his inaugural column for Grantland — on the most memorable sporting event he’s ever witnessed: Attending school at [United Tribes Technical College] is the polar opposite of idyllic. But that’s just how college life was (and still is) for so many Native American students — it’s just that nobody pays attention. [...]
John Jeremiah Sullivan on getting stoned at Disney World and so much more: Now we were truly at Disney World. A person didn’t come here every day! What is the scene here? Hello, primary colors; hello, quickly fading microdramas of passing human faces, incessantly deciding whether to make eye contact; hello, repeating stalls and gift [...]
Steve Jobs presents Apple’s plans for their new campus to the Cupertino City Council: An incredible vision of what a corporation can achieve when thought and care go into every decision. via macrumors