• Link Party: 7/20-7/24

    I had a good week and I hope you did too. Here’s what I read: 1. A Paul Ford discussion on Internet security in light of both the Ashley Madison hacks and the latest Gawker controversy. 2. I finished “The White Album” earlier this week, so I am loving this Paris Review interview with Joan Didion. 3. Inside couture…

  • Link Party: 6/29-7/3

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. I didn’t notice how many X should buy Y articles there are out there, and now I will. 2. I’m not a fan of Taylor Swift, but after reading this essay I understand her cultural pull a little more. 3. The Notorious RBG. 4. I haven’t watched the…

  • Link Party: 6/8-6/12

    I’m so overwhelmed that so many people liked yesterday’s post. Thank you. On to what I read this week: 1. I haven’t finished it because it might be a billion words, but Paul Ford’s explanation of coding is incredible. 2. We all knew this already, but closing bookstores is a very bad idea. 3. Secret…

  • Link Party: 3/30-4/3

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. These are the emails you get from Twitter when you don’t Tweet, follow anybody or log into the account. 2. This guy tried to analyze 18 years of his email, which amounted to nearly half a million messages. 3. The history behind and surrounding the Mark Rothko murals…

  • Link Party: 2/23-2/27

    I had a great week, and I hope you did too. Here’s what I read: 1. This chat between two editors, who had never met before but tried to get the other to feel the most profound sense of dread and panic from reading an email,  is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a…