A new format to go with new aggregation system. Not that anyone gives a shit. Anyway… reads!
- Catching up on a few of Dan Neil’s most recent reviews.
- Farewell, Big Prince: Lamenting the end of the Mercury Grand Marquis - Motor Trend
- Flipboard CEO Mike McCue - Business Insider (Related)
- Yours is a Very Bad Press Release - The Awl
- Secrets of the Boy Genius - Fortune Tech
- Take Me to an Elks Lodge and Don’t Step on It - NYT
- Apple Magic Trackpad: The Beginning of the End for Mac OS X - Gizmodo
- ‘Kids,’ 15 Years Later - The Awl
- One Man’s Journey Into Stunt Books - Wired
- Thoughts on Designing for iPad - Derek Powazek
- Has Arianna Huffington Figured Out the Future? - Newsweek
- Inside the Fog of War - Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan - NYT
- Se7en, Se7en, Oh My Se7en! - Vintage Jalopnik
- What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain - Lifehacker
I finally got fed up with TweetDeck a few weeks ago (and anything Adobe Air-based) and managed to snag a free copy of Socialite during a day-long promotion. It’s still a little rough around the edges (relaunch requires me to sign into Facebook each time, the occasional crash and Google Reader bogs the whole party down), but the Twitter and Facebook integration is the best I’ve experience with a native Mac app and I’ve ported in my Tumblr followers as an RSS feed – eliminating an additional browser window and condensing all the social network cruft into one place. These oddly colored words provide instructions on getting the RSS feed from Tumblr. More Socialite details here.
The last week’s worth of reads. Yeah, it’s a bit much.
- Real Editors Ship - Paul Ford, FTrain
- How the Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit - Danny Sullivan, Daggle (Related)
- Three Things Google Can Learn From Apple - Henrik Werdelin, Fast Company
- You Are Not a Gadget - Laura June, Engadget
- The Original (Goodbye Splendor) - Anthony Bourdain
- In a World of Online News, Burnout Starts Younger - Jeremy W. Peters, NYT
- iPad Fuels Magazine Disruption - Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired
- How to Tell a Journalist from a Blogger - Jolie O’Dell
- Writers Explain What It’s Like Toiling on the Content Farm - Corbin Hiar, MediaShift
- Why Journalists Make Mistakes & What We Can Do About Them - Mallary Jean Tenore, Poynter
- Trackday Diaries: Distraction, the street-steer mindset - Jack Baruth, TTAC
- The Good News About Mel Gibson - Frank Rich, NYT
- What the audience wants isn’t junk journalism - Laura McGann, Nieman Journalism Lab
- Capital Flight - Jodi Enda, AJR
- Bill Murray is ready to see you now - Dan Fierman, GQ
- Sorry, No, I’m Not Going to Write a Piece Arguing That Dan Lyons Is a Jackass - John Gruber, DaringFireball
- Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown - Fred Vogelstein, Wired
- Wikileaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too - Alexis Madrigal, Atlantic
- Tesla Electric Cars: Revved Up, but Far to Go - Claire Cain Miller, NYT
- Why Editing Could Make a Comeback - Alexis Madrigal, Atlantic
- HY Society - Ezra Dyer, Automobile
- Technology, Objectivity, the Death of Newspapers and Fox News - Joe Windish, The Moderate Voice
- Vintage: More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. - Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
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Porsche Le Mans 1970 Dashboard. Based on the P’6612. One please.
One lap of the Circuit de la Sarthe in a Porsche 956. Before the chicanes on the Mulsanne Straight. [via]
Monday Reads:
- Techmeme Offers Tech News at Internet Speed - Claire Cain Miller, NYT (Related)
- Yahoo and Google in high-tech news war - James Temple, SFChronicle
- A Web Site That’s Not Afraid to Pick a Fight - Jennifer Mascia, NYT
- The culture wars gave Toyota a license to kill - Jack Baruth, SpeedSportLife
- You Are Not Your Phone - Joel Johnson, Gizmodo
- Sam Smith dishes out four quickie reviews for Esquire
It occurred to me, as I sat there watching an interracial couple banging, that jacking off in a hotel room was not unlike the larger experience of campaign reporting. You watch two performers. You kind of like it when one of them gets humiliated. You know they’re professionals, so you don’t feel much sympathy for them. You wish you could participate, but instead you watch with a hidden envy and feel vaguely ashamed for watching. You think you could probably do as good a job or better. You sometimes get a glimpse, intentionally or not, of society’s hidden desires and fears. You watch the porn week after week, the scenes almost always the same, none of them too memorable. The best ones get sent around the Internet.
This week’s shorter-form reads:
- Bugatti Veyron Supersports 16.4 Speed-Record Debrief - Mike Spinelli, 0-60
- Adventures in media transparency - Gleen Greenwald, Salon
- Leaked docs show Motorcyclist caved to advertiser pressure, fired editor - Wes Siler, Hell for Leather
- How feminist blogs like Jezebel gin up page views by exploiting women’s worst tendencies - Emily Gould, Slate (Related, Original)
- Another Power Grab by Porsche’s Engineers - Ezra Dyer, NYT
- Will the iPad Make You Smarter? - Brian X. Chen, Wired
- Dinner at Le Bernardin - Patricia Calhoun, Westword
- On Cannibalism - Warren Ellis, Wired
Sir Stirling Moss’ steering wheel from his 1962 crash at Goodwood.
Nissan MID4: Mid-mounted V6, all-wheel drive, four-wheel steering. Stillborn in ‘87.
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