Saturday, August 17, 2019

Sometimes The Salmon Cannons You

This Week's Best Memes, Ranked, How a Single Pair of Sneakers Explains the Booming Billion-Dollar Sneaker Resale Industry, and more.
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THEY'VE GOT THE GOOD STUFF
SIMON COWELL'S SALMON CANNON
This Week's Best Memes, Ranked
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It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? The fish tube, Four Loko's new White Claw ripoff, that girl sipping kombucha and more.
SOLE SURVIVOR
How A Single Pair Of Sneakers Explains The Booming Billion-Dollar Sneaker Resale Industry
gq.com
Inside the wild, shockingly lucrative world of sneaker reselling.
THE JET SETTER
A French Chateau Hoarding The World's Largest Private Collection Of Fighter Jets
messynessychic.com
At no other chateau in all of France will you find a Soviet helicopter parked on the back lawn.
DIGG PICKS
Ace Next Semester With These Four Handy Classroom Accessories
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A beast of a pen, a beauty of a dopp bag, a French notepad and a zero-frills laptop bag.
LOOKING GOOD
China's Abandoned Nuclear City, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week
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Photographing twins at the Twins Days festival, life in Tel Aviv's bohemian bus station and more best photos of the week.
FIGHTING THE BAD FIGHT
KUBRICK'S WATERLOO
Was 'Napoleon' The Greatest Film Never Made?
bbc.com
Stanley Kubrick's biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte is regularly hailed by critics as the most tantalizing unfinished picture of all time.
A VIRULENT THREAT
The Myth Of Eurabia: How A Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Went Mainstream
theguardian.com
Once an obscure idea confined to the darker corners of the internet, the anti-Islam ideology is now visible in the everyday politics of the west. How did this happen?
AT YOUR LEISURE?
The Double-Edged Sword Of The Shorter Workweek
bbc.com
With less work to go around, will people twiddle their thumbs or find better things to do with their time?
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THIS IS SO SOOTHING
Furniture Restorer Finds A Mid-Century End Table In Truly Terrible Shape And Restores It To Perfection
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From ink-stained and gouged with holes to looking like something you'd see in a store.
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How is already halfway through August? Doesn't matter, it's the weekend.