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Wired Magazine Can’t Seem to Stop Alienating Women
“Wired’s June cover story, “How to be a GEEK DAD,” provides instructions on how to build hovercrafts, make electric play-doh, construct broomstick forts, and be the all-around “coolest father* on the planet.”
Hey, what’s that asterisk? It leads to “*or mother or uncle or grandparent.” Meaning: dads are (or have the potential to be) awesome, robot-building, big kids at heart, while moms are — well, just moms, we guess, perhaps available to stand in if Dad isn’t around.”
I guess I would classify myself as a chick-geek who reads Wired, but honestly the cover didn’t really make me think twice. Yes, I did react that the cover was clearly geared for men (who probably makes up a huge demographic of Wired readers for advertisers) but hey, it’s a June issue and Father’s Day is in June. I don’t know how accurate the author is for saying Wired is a general interest magazine though. Also, if Jezebel is gonna start picking at male-focused tech journalism, it should probably start with Gizmodo. As a previous intern there and from what I know about it, the site desperately need some equal part female voice and coverage.
Now that is some impressive trolling right there. Kudos, Wall Street Journal. Nicely done.
UPDATE: They “corrected” it
CORRECTION: The story describing how Yahoo killed Flickr was written by Gizmodo’s Mat Honen. An earlier version of this article credited the wrong publication and misspelled the author’s first name. We regret the error.
Yikesorama.
Fat Moms Have Stupider Kids
Women who are obese before they become pregnant are at higher risk of having children with lower cognitive function - as measured by math and reading tests taken between ages 5 to 7 years - than are mothers with a healthy prepregnancy weight, new research suggests.
This headline though.
There are no words.
YES, New York Times, MORE THIS, less Asians marrying Asians stories.
Asian Americans Are Marrying Each Other and The NY Times Is ON IT
“We want Chinese culture to be a part of our lives and our kids’ lives,” said Ms. Young, 29, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College who married Xin Gao, 27, last year. “It’s another part of our marriage that we’re excited to tackle together.”
Slow news Sunday for The New York Times, I guess. Dude, if you want to push your nationality onto your kids, just do it and who gives a shit if they are 100 percent of a certain race? It’s going to be in their blood regardless. I like how NYT just recycled this couple they previously did a wedding announcement story on last year, by the way.
Can posting pictures to Flickr reveal your hometown?
The idea is sort of obvious when you think about it. Provide an EXIF data of your photos that says where in the world you took them, and someone can guesstimate where you might be located. Now add a computer algorithm which can sort that for you. An interesting twist on the stalker central idea, written by yours truly.
What the fuck?
The Washington Post, Recast For a Digital Future
“Though company managers say privately that The [Washington] Post is modestly profitable, its newspaper division, which also includes a group of community papers and The Herald of Everett, Wash., reported an operating loss of nearly $26 million through the first three quarters of last year.
Compounding its troubles, The Post’s safety net ripped a giant hole. For decades, The Post could rely on Kaplan — the money-minting, for-profit college and test-preparation business that the company bought in 1984. But Kaplan has been squeezed under the weight of new federal rules that place greater limits on how for-profit colleges can recruit and enroll low-income students. Once by far the largest and fastest-growing business in the Washington Post Company, Kaplan is now a laggard. Education accounts for less operating income than two divisions that were historically less crucial to its profits, cable and broadcast television, according to the latest financial reports.”
There’s just that slight awkwardness when a newspaper does a feature on another newspaper about their decline…
Fuck that, Yahoo! News. And the rest of your headlines too.
Are PINs Killing Off Handwritten Signatures?
“[T]hese days, Danesi isn’t signing his name the way he used to. The electronic signature capture pad — the ubiquitous device at retail checkout counters — just leaves a pixelated mess. And when he writes letters of recommendation for his students, nobody wants a handwritten signature at all. “My signature is my email,” he says. “That to me is the death knell of the signature.”
Remember when we were kids and we would scribble on a blank pad of paper all day to get our perfect signature? Or was that just me? And call me old-fashioned, but I still really love looking at penmanship and seeing how unique each person’s writing is. The death of handwritten signature is to PIN as emails are to letters though.
ORLY??
Got this calendar for my boyfriend’s sister’s boyfriend (take a minute to process that) at the very last minute after finding out he will also be coming to Chicago for Christmas. Almost wanna keep it for myself because it looks super awesome, but I really don’t have a use for a real calendar since I don’t technically have a permanent desk space. Also, I must take a moment to thank the world for Amazon Prime, and how my student account has not yet expired.
The Pending Extinction of Pubic Hair in America
“Once upon a time, all vulvas were coated in a protective layer of coarse, woolly tresses. Hard to believe, right? It’s kind of like the revelation that horses once had toes, or that the Ford Mustang once had tailfins. But like any evolving species, the vulva has morphed into something sleeker, starker, and altogether more modern.”
It never cease to amaze me how you can write a long form article on virtually any topic, and not to mention being very funny as well.
[via noeliasophia, The Atlantic]
