interesting links roundup #1
reading #
- “And Now to My Ambivalence”: George Saunders on writing and playfulness
- All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
- Among America’s “Low-Information Voters”
- The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
- The Art of Finishing
- Asking the wrong questions
- Baiting the bot
- Be a thermostat, not a thermometer
- Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text
- Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible. Here’s why
- The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down
- The Hidden Engineering of Landfills
- How Should We Create Things?
- Inside the Mafia of Pharma Pricing
- The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
- Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers
- ‘Make your health insurance company cry’: One woman’s fight to turn the tables on insurers [see below]
- The Really Big One
- Should this be a map or 500 maps?
- They don’t make readers like they used to
- The Temporary License of Literary Bratdom
- The Ultimate Retaliation: Pranking My Roommate With Targeted Facebook Ads
- Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash
- Your Immune System is Not a Muscle
tools/reference #
- Fight Health Insurance: make your health insurance company cry too [see above]
- Mused
- Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: harm reduction for the living
- Project Random
- Transparent textures
- Using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor
- Your Name In Landsat