Bun of Contention
...Illustrations from Emil Braun's The Baker's Book (1902) An earlier version of this essay appears at The Austerity Kitchen’s old site. Pass some dinner rolls their way and...
World Hair Cup 2014 Updates
...WorldHairCup.com. So given that 2014 marks the inaugural World Hair Cup, it's understandable that the Fédération Internationale de Hair Association (FIHA) ran into some unexpected issues during group stage. (Hey,...
Tree Sitting
...self-motivated, and a rich one at that. But the things that are called MOOC’s, aren’t they just one version of the way the internet freely and massively circulates information? If...
#stopcreating
...transcribed and then presented as literature, then what makes one work better than another? If it’s a matter of simply cutting and pasting the entire Internet into a Microsoft Word...
Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs
...viral data with which to feed its own sickness, it chews on itself for days before regurgitating its own guts in a feedback loop of 24-bit RGB rainbows. Nowadays, it’s...
Gamifying Beauty
...better-made-up version of myself, the most pervasive feeling I had was not of self-abasement but of extraordinary fatigue. It was like I’d spent 12 hours proofreading a dissertation on, I...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.26.13
...listen to this analyst and drop their attempts at fragrance and color cosmetics, Oil of Ulay will be all the more important to the beauty behemoth.) Faking it: The...
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...and your ads by striking lucrative partnerships with Microsoft, Yahoo, and other search-engine providers. It’s going to get two of those whether you like it or not. Why should business...
Of Being Numerous
...at stake. Bipartisan lawmaker cohorts have demanded an end to the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ communications data; the preposterously named USA Freedom Act is gaining traction primarily on this...
Upping the Antihero
...powers is a self-aware version of this same story. Police consultant is the perfect job for a cop who doesn’t want to play by a cop’s rules. As with the...
Consultancy Rock
...meritocrats among its fan base that power, coldly and clinically deployed, is the best way to redeem awkwardness. An early version of this essay originally appeared at Generation Bubble...
Own to Rent
...the long-running SimCity franchise, was supposed to be available for download and play on March 5, 2013. The download part mostly worked. The play part did not. The problems were...
The Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2
...click the image or link below to download Download the Collected Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times Vol. 2 here. I only agreed to write this...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 65: Jobs
...special project features Francis Tseng’s dystopian simulator The Founder, which, like some jobs, you can download on your phone. “Whether we arrive at a utopian world without work or a...
Jobs
...special project features Francis Tseng’s dystopian simulator The Founder, which, like some jobs, you can download to play on your phone. “Whether we arrive at a utopian world without work...