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Evan Darling
Evan Darling has always loved cars, but he entered professional racing in 2007 with a larger goal in mind: he wanted to be a role model for gay teens. When he came out to his parents at age 18, in 1986, they reacted so badly he had to move out. But since then, he’d gone on to build a successful career as a mechanic and landscaper, and he wanted to… →
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Anderson and Gloria
Anderson Cooper reçoit sa mère, Gloria Vanderbilt, dans son talk show. Où on comprend qu’il n’y avait aucune chance que cet homme soit hétéro. Concerant l’émission, je n’apprécie pas forcément le style, mais il faut avouer qu’il est bon pour la mise en scène, en tout cas. Sinon, visiblement, Gloria aurait inventé le « designer’s jeans », le jeans de créateur. Mais ne faut-il pas être un créateur, pour cela? Just bitching. →
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Ellen and the definition of success
» 16 May 2009, Ellen DeGeneres addresses Tulane University’s graduating ‘Katrina Class’. This woman →
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Carmen Carrera et visibilité trans*
Carmen Carrera, candidat de la saison 3 de Rupaul Drag Race, a fait son coming-out trans* au début de cette année. Cet extrait de What Would You Do de ABC finit heureusement mieux que ce que pouvait laisser craindre les premières minutes. →
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Bath Salts, la dangereuse insaisissable
The last four decades have seen plenty of whipped-up hysteria about various fad intoxicants of the moment. But the fear generated by bath salts seems well earned. Dr. Mark Ryan, director at the Louisiana Poison Center, called bath salts « the worst drug » he has seen in his 20 years there. « With LSD, you might see pink elephants, but with this drug, you see demons, aliens, extreme paranoia, heart attacks, and… →
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Un hebdo en ligne pour le Huff Post
Huffington will include a mix of short newsy items and three long-form pieces that will run 4,000 to 8,000 words every issue. The first issue, which is sponsored entirely by Toyota, will feature an article written by Peter S. Goodman on President Obama’s declining relationship with young voters. So far, there is no talk of turning the newsmagazine into a print publication. Mr. O’Brien said that the magazine would help… →
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La nouvelle bouffe de rue à Paris
Street food itself isn’t new to France. At outdoor markets like this one, there is often a truck selling snacks like pizza, crepes or spicy Moroccan merguez sausages, cooked on griddles and stuffed into baguettes. But the idea of street food made by chefs, using restaurant-grade ingredients, technique and technology, is very new indeed. » Food Trucks in Paris? U.S. Cuisine Finds Open Minds, and Mouths, The New York Times.… →
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The liminal phase
She didn’t sleep with scuzzy car guy just because she was desperate for the stability. She slept with him because she’s in a liminal phase. Liminalty is the scary in-between times in our lives, the weird time when we’re not who we used to be but we’re not quite who we’re going to be. Joan’s in a classic — classic! — liminal phase right now. She’s not the office vixen… →
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« Smash » : The walk of shame
Since I wrote that passionate defense of the NBC series, I’ve tumbled out of bed, grabbed my purse, and taken a long walk of shame. Because—to switch metaphors mid-stream, the way Smash does with plots—since its delightful pilot, the show has taken a nosedive so deep I’m surprised my ears haven’t popped. All the caveats I noted but dismissed in my earlier review have become the definingly awful features of… →
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Combien coûterait la reconstruction de New York suite aux combats des Avengers?
Overall, the total cost to rebuild buildings, water, electrical, communications, underground transport, and overground transport in new york city totals about $28,741,000,000,000 : $28.7 Trillion. This does not count the sewer system, the gas mains, landmarks, or the cost to clear and clean up the wreckage. » How much damage in terms of monetary value, time and labour would it cost to repair New York City after one Marvel Universe… →
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Les droits des gays aux USA, état par état
» Gay rights in the US, state by state. Une infographie intelligente du Guardian, qui se personnalise si vous vous connectez avec vos identifiants Facebook, pour vous montrer les lois de là où habitent vos amis (américains). →
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Disaster looms
That wisest friend shares her pessimism—though not entirely: It’s a turning point for the country. Dark days could be ahead. It all depends on the markets and on Hollande’s capacities. If they’re as deep as the ones he showed in running a campaign against so many odds, then we’re okay—if not, disaster looms. » The View From France, Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker. Adam Gopnik a écrit un bouquin super… →
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Publicité et nouvelles façons de regarder la télévision
Here’s the wow-quote of the day, from Jeff Gaspin, the head of entertainment at NBC, explaining to The New York Times, with remarkable clarity and certainty, that watching TV shows on-demand is more satisfying than watching them live. « The commercials broke the tension … I hate to say this to the AMC executives and everybody else in the business, but I will never watch ‘Walking Dead’ live again. » » Primetime… →
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Hunger Games Tweets : White until proven black
On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, The Hunger Games, logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site he called Hunger Games Tweets. The young man, whom I’ll call Adam, had been tracking a disturbing trend among Hunger Games enthusiasts: readers who could not believe—or accept—that Rue and Thresh, two of the most prominent… →
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It Gets Betterish
» It Gets Betterish. →
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Bully et la véritable obscénité
With its unerring instinct for being on the wrong side of every major social and aesthetic issue, the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings board has refused to budge off its R rating for Bully, an earnest and moving documentary made for and about tormented preteens and teenagers. There’s almost a perverse, Santorum-style integrity about the MPAA’s staunch resistance. Its ratings board — an anonymous group of Los Angeles-area parents — stands… →
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Not just for vegetarians
« For the people who are like, ‘I want to eat, but I want to eat something healthy,’ I think their only choice used to be a vegetarian restaurant, » Ms. Cohen said. « We wanted to be more mainstream, and not just for vegetarians. We really wanted to serve good food. » » When a Tofu Dog Can’t Cut the Mustard, The Wall Street Journal. Les restaurants branchés de l’East Village new-yorkais pensent… →
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La révolution informatique de la Maison Blanche
In eight weeks, 40 applications were built, including a parking application that had previously been done in Excel, and a printer dashboard to tell them when a printer was running out of toner. The program also led to the development of survey tools, memo generators, and an online tool that replaced paper-based goods and services processing. » White House CIO’s first 40 days included ‘worst day’ ever, Computer World. Comment l’état… →
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«This American Life» retire un de ses épisodes pour bidonnage
I have difficult news. We’ve learned that Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China – which we broadcast in January – contained significant fabrications. We’re retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its truth. This is not a story we commissioned. It was an excerpt of Mike Daisey’s acclaimed one-man show « The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, » in which he talks about visiting a factory in China… →
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La culture toxique de Goldman Sachs
Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive… →