Zoë Lance.

  • Link Party: 12/22-12/26

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. New Yorkers asked the New York Public Library some crazy things pre-Google. 2. 550 musicians were asked Lennon or McCartney, and I’m actually surprised by the results. 3. This is what Christmas dinner at the White House looks like. 4. Jeb Bush’s emails were almost as fascinating as…

  • Link Party: 12/15-12/19

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. The Académie française says to knock it off with the LOLs. 2. One of my favorite tech writers keeps getting Amazon emails that aren’t for him. 3. The best essay I read about the ramifications of the Sony hack. 4. There’s a real life Newman running around in…

  • Link Party: 12/8-12/12

    Remember last week when I said I’d be back to regularly scheduled programming? I unintentionally lied. Now that finals are over (and most of my academic commitments will be relieved by Sunday), things will be relatively back to normal on Monday. I mostly promise. Here’s what I read this week: 1. The front page of New York’s first…

  • Link Party: 12/1-12/5

      Sorry for the lack of blog posts this week — will be back to regularly scheduled programming on Monday. Here’s what I read this week: 1. The numbers behind department store holiday windows. 2. There’s a website that is devoted to proving the Beatles never existed. The Internet is an incredible place. 3. I have…

  • Link Party: 11/24-11/28

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. What happens to English when you get rid of the letter E. 2. A profile on The Strand, a bookstore in New York I’m dying to go to. 3. A beautiful essay on Julia Child, food and love. 4. A conversation on lightsaber construction in the teaser for…

  • Link Party: 11/17-11/21

    A little later than usual today, but here’s what I read this week: 1. The history of the Styles section of the New York Times was fascinating. 2. How we look when we look at a painting. 3. The tiniest copyright violations ever made. 4. The causes of the rise in dystopian films. And 5. a…

  • Link Party: 11/10-11/14

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. This scientific study accidentally included a working citation of “(Should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?)” I felt so many waves of secondhand embarrassment. 2. What makes a child an art prodigy? 3. If you haven’t seen Too Many Cooks yet, watch it and read this. 4. I…

  • Link Party: 11/3-11/7

    This week was crazy, and it looks like the pace will only increase. But I did have some time to read: 1. $3 gas in the United States is actually a really bad thing. I wondered why it was so low. 2. The history and etymology of the penny. 3. Has anyone else ever noticed…

  • Link Party: 10/27-10/31

    Happy Halloween! Here’s what I read this week: 1. Sweden has its own national font now, which I think is creepy and a bad idea. The Blackletter font became synonymous with the Third Reich, and I don’t think that’s a good thing to follow up on. 2. I’m not part of a sorority, but this…

  • Link Party: 10/20-10/24

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Rei Kawakubo is fascinating. 2. Apparently, the oceans could lose $1 trillion in value because of acidification. I don’t really understand how they quantified that, but maybe if we attach a financial cost to something like this, people will pay more attention to what we’re doing to something we can’t…