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A "Kardashian" as a unit of measure for attention
"I choose the Kardashian as a unit both because [...] Kardashian is an exemplar of attention disconnected from merit, talent or reason."
media  Kardashian 
3 days ago
Report: Downtown Cincinnati population up 12%
Cincinnati's urban core continues to grow as a result of a strong community, strong city leadership, and efforts from groups like 3CDC.
cincinnati  cities  urbanism  downtown  from instapaper
7 days ago
Healthy food no more costly than junk food, government finds
There's no excuse not to eat right.
food 
7 days ago
30 Minutes on Mass Transit in 20 World Cities
A new website shows you exactly where you can go in under 30 minutes using mass transit.
transit  transportation  buses  cities  urbanism  from instapaper
8 days ago
Glenn Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable: ‘I’m Not Sure I Know What AirPlay Is’
"Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen."
media  television  internet  from instapaper
10 days ago
Fox News has finally figured out that low gas prices are bad
Fox News logic: "High gas prices are a sign of economic recovery, and Obama is to blame for the gas prices, but should not get credit for the recovery [...] Low gas prices are a sign of a flagging economy, which is Obama’s fault, but the low gas prices have nothing to do with him."
politics  Fox.News  Obama  transportation  gas  from instapaper
10 days ago
Is Cincinnati The Greenest City In America?
Cincinnati is receiving national attention for its recent switch to 100% renewable electricity.
Cincinnati  Ohio  energy  environment 
15 days ago
Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun
A sad reflection on our country's grasp of basic scientific knowledge.
Bill.Nye  Texas  science  religion 
15 days ago
DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings
Get ready for 20 seconds of unskippable warnings before you can watch a DVD.
dvd  blu-ray  media  copyright  piracy 
15 days ago
The frequent fliers who flew too much
American Airlines is regretting their decision to sell lifetime unlimited flight passes in the 1980's.
travel  transit  American.Airlines  aviation 
18 days ago
Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'
The short answer: car culture.
cars  automobiles  culture  fashion 
19 days ago
Top 10 Reasons Why the iPhone Is No BlackBerry
A 2008 article. "No Physical Keyboard? No Thanks."
ios  iphone  blackberry 
24 days ago
Taking in a concert doubleheader with Creed and Nickelback, the world's most hated bands
"Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger is tenderly coaching the audience on how to properly respond to the next song. 'Come on, ladies,' he says, 'let’s pretend you’re 13 fucking years old at a Justin fucking Bieber concert.' His argument makes a soft landing."
music  creed  nickelback  from instapaper
24 days ago
Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem
"The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe."
politics  tea.party  GOP  from instapaper
27 days ago
Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
The Fark.com founder tells a great story about his experience fighting a blatant patent troll.
patents  technology  tech 
4 weeks ago
Over the Rhine transformation: not over yet
A rare positive look at the positive changes in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine urban neighborhood from our anti-city newspaper.
otr  over-the-rhine  cincinnati  ohio  urbanism 
4 weeks ago
The Invention of Jaywalking
In the 1920's, "AAA and other auto clubs [...] funded safety patrols that taught kids they had to stop for traffic, not the other way around."
automobiles  cars  transportation  jaywalking  urbanism 
4 weeks ago
Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection
"I’m paying $368 a night for a hotel room, and this is how I get treated."
tech  travel  wifi  ads  advertising  from instapaper
5 weeks ago
OMFG! Change! Media freaks out!
When anything changes, the mainstream media asks, "What can go wrong, and how can we use this to scare soccer moms?"
media  media.literacy  bias  from instapaper
5 weeks ago
Census Finds Record Low Growth in Outlying Suburbs
"'Suburban housing prices may not recover in our lifetime,' Shiller said, calling the development of suburbs since 1950 'unusual,' enabled only by the rise of the automobile and the nation's highway system."
housing  economy  cities  suburbs 
5 weeks ago
Led by Youth Americans Are Driving Less, But When Will Lawmakers Notice?
Year after year, Americans are driving less, young people are waiting longer to get their license, and more people are relying on mass transit. When will policymakers notice?
transit  transportation  generation.gap  politics 
5 weeks ago
Taxed by the boss
When you see "taxes withheld" on your paycheck, you assume that money is going to the government. But in 16 states, large corporations like Sears, Ford, GE, Google, and Procter & Gamble are allowed to keep a portion of that money -- as pure profit.
economy  economics  jobs  Ohio  politics 
5 weeks ago
Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time
music  Jack.White  Third.Man.Records 
5 weeks ago
Stop Crying About Free Services
When you use a free service, you run the risk that they will eventually try to make a profit in a way that you don't like.
Instagram  Facebook  social.media  social.networking 
5 weeks ago
Why Netflix Never Implemented The Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million Challenge
It turns out, people's DVD watching habits are totally different than their streaming habits.
movies  entertainment  DVDs  Netflix  media  streaming 
5 weeks ago
PHP: a fractal of bad design
A comprehensive look at why PHP is just a bad language.
php  programming  tech  web.development 
6 weeks ago
Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out
Why Facebook wanted Instagram: It's a simple app that does one thing really well, and its users love it.
Instagram  iOS  iPhone  apple  Facebook  tech  startup  acquisition  business  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Everyone Should Work A Service Job
In summary: people who have never had to work a retail-type job are generally spoiled brats.
economy  culture  jobs  millennials  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Making the World's Largest Airline Fly
An interesting look at some of the technical issues a merged United-Continental airline will face.
aviation  United  Continental  merger  business  transportation  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Study Tracks How Conservatives Lost Their Faith in Science
A frightening concept: "Confidence in science as an institution has steadily declined among Americans who consider themselves conservatives."
science  religion  GOP  tea.party  politics  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
The Iced-Coffee Economy: Why the Cold Stuff Costs More
coffee  food  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Helicopter Parents Hover In The Workplace
Grow up, kids.
generation.gap  millennials  baby.boomers  employment  culture  jobs  economy  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Steve Jobs Discussed Potential Television Deal with CBS CEO Les Moonves
Moonves to Jobs: "You know more than me about 99 percent of things but I know more about the television business."
tv  television  steve.jobs  les.moonves  media 
8 weeks ago
Mystery group tilted local election
An unknown group, "Victory Ohio Super PAC" (not officially registered as a PAC), may have had a measurable impact on one Ohio primary race.
election  ohio  politics  government  pac 
8 weeks ago
TSA Airport Screeners Are Under Siege
Representative John Mica, who helped create the TSA, wants to chop the organization down to a faction of its current size.
tsa  airports  aviation  security  transportation 
8 weeks ago
Google Wants to Serve Ads Based On Your Phone's Background Noise
Just like Gmail scanning your email to serve you relevant ads... but in audio form.
google  ads  media  android 
9 weeks ago
The Onion's Bumpy Ride to Chicago
Only one-third of the editorial staff is willing to make the move from NYC to Chicago.
chicago  new.york  nyc  cities  the.onion 
9 weeks ago
Austin Boulevard traffic exceeding 2035 forecast
In short: building new roads and highway interchange does not reduce congestion; it increases congestion.
roads  highways  transportation  infrastructure 
10 weeks ago
Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons
Turning suburban malls into "the downtowns that the suburbs never had"
urbanism  shopping  malls  retail  suburbs  from instapaper
11 weeks ago
More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers
"Some families chose to go elsewhere while others agreed to have their kids inoculated."
vaccines  science  health 
11 weeks ago
Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era'
"[AAAS president Nina Fedoroff] confessed that she was now 'scared to death' by the anti-science movement that was spreading, uncontrolled, across the US and the rest of the western world."
science  politics 
11 weeks ago
Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal
"But what, I ask, about your great-great-great-grandchildren? What do they get?"
copyright  media  law 
11 weeks ago
Republican Congressional Candidate Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'
Denying facts has never been more fashionable than in GOP-land, 2012.
holocaust  wwii  gop 
11 weeks ago
PennDot: Rural Roads Subsidized More Than Mass Transit
Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation confirms urban residents subsidize rural transportation infrastructure.
urbanism  cities  infrastructure  from instapaper
11 weeks ago
Free wi-fi from Japanese vending machines
An innovative idea to get people to hang out near (and purchase things from) vending machines.
Japan  wi-fi  tech 
12 weeks ago
Eric Deters is Going Nuts!
Local talk radio extremist Eric Deters calls for an "Armed Revolution", encouraging citizens to "gather in Washington with guns and demand the peaceful resignation and departure from the Presidency of Barack Obama."
politics  tea.party  gop  talk.radio  eric.deters 
february 2012
Paul Allen’s Vulcan Urges Seattle to Raise Building Heights
The neighborhood that's home to Seattle's first modern streetcar line is growing fast, and investor Paul Allen wants the ability to build taller buildings.
transit  transportation  Seattle  streetcar  development  urbanism 
february 2012
A big day on the 520 bridge: Why I’m happy about the tolls
One Seattle journalist explains why he's happy an existing bridge was tolled.
infrastructure  transit  transportation  roads  Seattle  bridges  from instapaper
february 2012
Why we will no longer endorse in elections
The Chicago Sun-Times ends the practice of endorsing candidates in political races and bans their executives from contributing financially to campaigns.
politics  media  Chicago  ethics  journalism  from instapaper
february 2012
UC photos from the '30s and '40s
Great vintage photos from around the University of Cincinnati in the 1930s and 1940s, as collected by UC Magazine.
UC  Cincinnati  history  photos  vintage  college  from instapaper
february 2012
Netflix deal with Warner Bros. includes delay in queues
In a move that reeks of desperation, Warner Bros. announces that Netflix subscribers won't get new releases until 8 weeks after DVDs are available.
netflix  media  warner.brothers  movies  from instapaper
february 2012
Fixing “Previous Track”
The behavior of the "previous track" button is extremely frustrating when playing podcasts.
marco.arment  podcasts  iOS  ux  from instapaper
february 2012
Google turns old paper mill into data center
The old paper mill's underground tunnels were also reused to bring in water for cooling.
tech  technology  infrastructure  google 
january 2012
Kentucky cuts education funding, keeps tax break for Bible-themed amusement park
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's budget includes a 6.4% cut to the state's higher education system, but keeps in place a $43 million tax break for a Bible-themed amusement park and $11 million to improve an interchange giving access to the park.
kentucky  budget  education  religion 
january 2012
SOPA & PIPA Supporters Violating Copyright Laws
Supporters of the supposed "anti-piracy" bill don't seem to take copyrights very seriously themselves.
SOPA  PIPA  congress  politics  copyright 
january 2012
Clive Thompson to Texters: Park the Car, Take the Bus
Maybe the problem with "texting and driving" isn't the texting part.
texting  driving  transportation  transit 
january 2012
Who Killed Lard?
Lard isn't any more unhealthy than Crisco or butter, so why did it fall out of popularity?
lard  Crisco  butter  fat  cooking  food  npr  podcasts 
january 2012
Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?
The New York Times ponders whether it should be concerned with "facts".
facts  journalism  New.York.Times 
january 2012
Public Transportation is Communist!
The editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer are either clueless and out-of-touch with reality or actually attempting to start a modern day Red Scare by publishing this mindless letter-to-the-editor.
LTE  Cincinnati  Enquirer  transit  transportation  cities  urbanism  streetcar  from instapaper
january 2012
What Mitt Pays
How does your tax rate compare to Mitt Romney's?
mitt.romney  gop  taxes  politics 
december 2011
'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into U.S. Speech
"Vocal fry" my also be better known as "female NPR voice".
speech  communication  vocal.fry  npr  from instapaper
december 2011
Copyright and remix culture: The new Prohibition?
"Under current copyright law, nearly every cover song on YouTube is technically illegal. [...] No amount of lawsuits or legal threats will change the fact that this behavior is considered normal — I’d wager the vast majority of people under 25 see nothing wrong with non-commercial sharing and remixing, or think it’s legal already."
copyright  law  remix  youtube  riaa  mpaa  from instapaper
december 2011
How to Bridge Neighborhood Gaps? Turn Overpasses into Main Streets
Columbus, Ohio's I-670 cap is cited as a model for hiding urban expressways.
columbus  ohio  development  urbanism  cities  transportation  from instapaper
december 2011
The Death of the Fringe Suburb
"Simply put, there has been a profound structural shift — a reversal of what took place in the 1950s, when drivable suburbs boomed and flourished as center cities emptied and withered."
economy  development  housing  cities  urbanism  from instapaper
december 2011
The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury
"It’s interesting to me that the same consumer that will go to 7-11 and buy a bottle of Fiji Water for five dollars will go crazy and complain about a cup of coffee."
coffee  food  economy  from instapaper
december 2011
The Book of Jobs
Re-examining the cause of the Great Depression—the revolution in agriculture that threw millions out of work—the author argues that the U.S. is now facing and must manage a similar shift in the “real” economy, from industry to service, or risk a tragic replay of 80 years ago.
economy  jobs  stimulus  infrastructure  government  from instapaper
december 2011
The Sounds of Silence
Even for big acts like Jason Isbell and Portugal The Man, stolen instruments are just part of life as a touring band.
music  artists  jason.isbell  portugal.the.man  from instapaper
december 2011
Family Guy writer's first-person account of his Occupy LA arrest
"An LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor."
ows  occupy.la  police.brutality  from instapaper
december 2011
Questions for the Republican Candidates
Anil Dash provides some meaningful questions for the GOP presidential candidates.
politics  gop  presidential.race  election 
december 2011
The Cincinnati Monocle: Slap the Bag -- Ohio's Greatest 21st Century Innovation?
"A group of 7 or 8 undergraduates were tossing around the bag from a box of Franzia boxed wine as part of some sort of pseudo-pagan spiritual cleansing. Little did I know then that I was witnessing an early version of Slap The Bag -- the first great American drinking game of the 21st Century."
jake.mecklenborg  funny  college  ohio.university 
december 2011
Research In Motion Announces Third Quarter Provision Related To PlayBook Inventory and Confirms Commitment to Tablet Market; Provides Update to Q3 and Fiscal 2012 Guidance
Corporate double-speak of the day: "an increase in promotional activity is required to drive sell-through to end customers." (via daringfireball.net)
rim  blackberry  tablets  playbook 
december 2011
5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation
Generation X told their children they were too good to flip burgers, then yells at OWS protestors for acting like they're too good to flip burgers.
ows  generation.gap  generation.x  baby.boomers 
december 2011
Hub changes hit Cincinnati hard
"Cincinnati, where Delta once had more than 600 daily departures, has now shrunk to the carrier’s smallest hub with roughly 130 flights a day."
cincinnati  travel  aviation  delta  cvg  from instapaper
november 2011
Bob Ross Washes his Brush
As always, with odorless thinner.
bob.ross  art  pbs  funny  from instapaper
november 2011
Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup Tastes Best
When maple syrup was used mostly as a general-purpose sweetener, the lighter, less-flavorful variety was valued higher.
food  from instapaper
november 2011
Cities need to move their money
"Two weeks after Portland mayoral candidate state and Rep. Jefferson Smith publicly challenged Portland to move some of its money to local credit unions, Mayor Sam Adams this morning said he would pursue the cause. [...] When Portland follows through, it will cost Wells Fargo tens of millions of dollars."
politics  ows  portland  credit.unions  banks  from instapaper
november 2011
EU Bans Airport X-Ray Machines
"The simple fact is that even a 'low' x-ray exposure increases cancer risk, if only by a small amount. If you fly frequently, those small amounts add up."
aviation  travel  security  cancer  eu  tsa  from instapaper
november 2011
Why conservatives can't get people to work hard
"A winner-take-all society is not very conducive to hard work; I'm not going to bust my butt for 30 years for a 1% shot at getting into The 1%. But I am going to bust my butt for 30 years if I think this gives me a 90% chance of having a decent house, a family, some security, a reasonably pleasant job, a dog, and a couple of cars in my garage."
economics  politics  economy  jobs  from instapaper
november 2011
15 Food Companies that Serve You ‘Wood’
"He said cellulose [wood] is common in processed foods, often labeled as reduced-fat or high-fiber –- products like breads, pancakes, crackers, pizza crusts, muffins, scrambled eggs, mashed potato mixes, and even cheesecake. Inman himself keeps a box of Wheat Thins Fiber Selects crackers, manufactured by Kraft Foods Nabisco brand, at his desk, and snacks on them daily, clearly unmoved by the use of wood pulp in its ingredients."
food  health  from instapaper
november 2011
Netflix, Fox ready to resurrect Arrested Development as a streaming exclusive in 2013 - Engadget
Pretty good exclusive content deal, I'd say.
media  netflix  fox  arrested.development  tv 
november 2011
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