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Link Party: 7/25-7/29
Here’s what I read this week: 1. How apps speak to us like children. 2. Default settings rule the world. 3. Inside the world of house cat pageants and our relationships with our pets. 4. The backstories behind a few of Seinfeld‘s funniest episodes. 5. The origins of the Internet meaning of “garbage.” And a bonus: Hamilton…
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Link Party: 12/14-12/18
Here’s what I read this week: 1. Meet the stylist with an insane vintage clothing collection that Kanye West and Rihanna like to borrow. 2. I cosign this Album of the Year nomination for the “Hamilton” soundtrack. 3. I don’t usually read a lot of sports journalism, but this personal essay about childhood abuse from a…
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Link Party: 7/27-7/31
I’d like to know where July went. Please tell me. Anyway, here’s what I read this week: 1. iTunes is the worst re: metadata. 2. You all are sleeping on the Arctic Monkeys, but the South Americans are not. This article also has some interesting things to say about South America infrastructure and the power of…
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Link Party: 3/23-3/27
Here’s what I read this week: 1. This really interesting comparison between evil soliloquies in Shakespeare and Robert Durst’s hot mic. 2. If you’ve ever been curious about how shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart get specific sound bites from news broadcasts and stuff like that, this is how they do it. 3. Ephemera…
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Undergraduate Adventures: 7 Seinfeldian Moments
It’s not that big of a secret that Seinfeld is one of my favorite shows of all time. I’m essentially Elaine Benes, but this quarter especially, there have been a couple of times where I’ve wondered if I’m in the middle of an episode. 1. There’s this running joke on The Poly Post editorial staff…