Wednesday, April 15, 2020

500 Days Of Bummer

What Our Pandemic Summer Holds, This 3-D Simulation Shows Why Social Distancing Is So Important, The Devastating Decline Of A Brilliant Young Coder, and more.
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WORST CASE SCENARIO
SPIT TAKE
This 3-D Simulation Shows Why Social Distancing Is So Important
nytimes.com
If you haven't been keeping your distance to fight the coronavirus, this may persuade you.
STRIPPED DOWN
After The End Of The World: The Eerie Silence Of The Las Vegas Strip
theguardian.com
The empty strip, shut down for the first time since the JFK assassination, shows the striking toll the coronavirus crisis has taken on fun and leisure.
WHAT DOES 'NORMAL' EVEN MEAN?
'There Is No Going Back' — What Does Our Pandemic Summer Hold?
theatlantic.com
The fight against the coronavirus won't be over when the US reopens. Here's how the nation must prepare itself.
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WRINKLE IN TIME
NOT UP TO CODE
The Devastating Decline Of A Brilliant Young Coder
wired.com
Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable — for a long time, no one could make sense of it.
GREAT SCOTT!
The 'Office' Cast Members Who Had The Most Screen Time In Each Season, Charted
digg.com
Here are the actors who had the most screen time in sitcom, ranked.
A BEAUTIFUL TWISTED FANTASY
Inside Kanye West's Vision For The Future
gq.com
Kanye West says he's redesigning the very building blocks of family life — food, clothing, and shelter — and he's claimed thousands of acres in Wyoming as a test site for his ideas.
PC CULTURE
This Abandoned Computer Store Is A Time Capsule Of Early 2000s Tech
vice.com
In a strip mall in a small Oklahoma city, a treasure of software and hardware sits gathering dust.
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This spring, our friends at General Assembly and Climb are partnering up to provide one lucky skill-seeker with free access to an On Demand learning path and a $3K credit for GA workshops in coding, data, marketing, and design.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
'PUT A LITTLE MONEY IN ZOOM'
Woman Tries To Explain The Pandemic To Her Past Self In This Hilarious Short
youtube.com
- "I think the Australian wildfires are gonna be the defining feature of 2020." - "Yeah... not even a little bit."
IN THE NEWS
Trump Halts World Health Organization Funding Over Handling Of Coronavirus Outbreak
In Unprecedented Move, Treasury Orders Trump's Name Printed On Stimulus Checks
IT Workers At Hollywood Reporter and Billboard Vandalize Website After Getting Laid Off
Millions of Americans Might Not Get Stimulus Checks. Some Might Be Tricked Into Paying TurboTax to Get Theirs
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
THE HARD CANDY DIET
The Island Where People Forget To Die (2012)
nytimes.com
Unraveling the mystery of why the inhabitants of Ikaria live so long and so well.
COOBER PEDY IS PRETTY COOL
A Junket To The Most 'Interesting' Town On Earth (2016)
atlasobscura.com
How a trip to the Australian outback got weird, and beautiful.
Hello, this is yourself speaking from the future. We'll be okay.