Saturday, December 7, 2013

Weekend Links

Your Online Dating Profile Picture Should Be With Other People | Smart News
Polyester Airlines: Europe's Ryanair vs. America's Southwest
Netflix's War on Mass Culture | New Republic
Amazon drones and the coming robot smog | FT Alphaville
2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time - Quartz
Short Fasts for Weight Loss vs. Traditional Diets
Ian Parker: The Search for a Blockbuster Insomnia Drug : The New Yorker
Cicero’s Web: How Social Media Was Born in Ancient Rome | Brain Pickings
The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History —
The Truth About Pork and How America Feeds Itself —
Demand Media: Rise and Fall of a Content Farm | Variety
Look What Happened When This Games Company Offered An Absurd '$5 More' Black Friday Deal - Business Insider
23 and You — Beautiful Stories — Medium
Archive: Read the article in which The Economist first mentioned Nelson , from 1961, via
A giant passes. Nelson was, quite simply, a wonderful man