longform:

Hey, Longform is two years old! Huzzah! After nearly 3,000 articles and 14,000,000 words, we thought we’d celebrate by looking back through the site’s most popular stories. We’ve put together a pair of Top 50 lists, one from our first year and one from our second, to see what exactly people…

(Source: longformblog)

good:

You might remember our last procrastination tool, the “No Chart.” Now meet its more sophisticated cousin, “Make Your Own Infographic.” We invite you to respond to your friends, family, or ridiculous news story du jour with a snarky pie chart or venn diagram.

futurejournalismproject:

via GOOD: 

Etsy may be better known for knit products than coded ones, but the company just announced that it’s teaming up with Hacker School, a three-month coding program in New York City, to give out scholarships to women who want to become better programmers. The tech world has long been a boys’ club—not even one in five software developers are women—and the idea is to take a stab at evening out the gender inequality a bit. 

The scholarship program will award $5,000 grants to 20 women who want to attend the summer 2012 session of Hacker School, held in Etsy’s headquarters in New York. The school, whose three founders include a woman, looks for students who love programming and have “curiosity, passion, raw intelligence and a desire to build things.” The full-time program takes students through an informal instruction period for programmers of all skill levels, requiring that “everyone writes free and open source software” so others can use and learn from it. The goal of the scholarship is to fill half the spots with women and have a gender-equal classroom.

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futurejournalismproject:

An Igloo, Made of Books

From a series called “Home”, by Miler Lagos.

H/T: Colossal.

Cocktail time!

theatlantic:

If Social Media Sites Were Cocktails

When we came across this social media-inspired cocktail menu the other day, it had us wondering what a marriage between two things we spend a lot of time with would look like. It comes to us from the New York City location of the Mandarin Oriental hotel, where marketers dreamed up Internet-themed cocktails as a way to (ideally) boost their social media presence. They took four popular websites where the hotel has a presence: Twitter, Tumblr, Trip Advisor, and Google, and turned them into $19 drinks, calling the whole menu “The Like Page,” an homage to their Facebook presence. Note: a URL is nowhere in sight on the menu: “[We’re] easily found by googling Mandarin Oriental, New York for our Twitter and/or Tumblr,” explained Mandarin Oriental Communications Coordinator Jaimie Desantis to The Atlantic Wire.

We’ll give them some credit: the drinks actually try to capture the essence of each of the sites. Is this what the Internet would taste like if it got you drunk? 

Read more at The Atlantic Wire.

If I had to choose, I’d go for the Bourbon Tumblr.

LOOK AT THOSE SUNGLASSES!

textsfromhillaryclinton:

Texting with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

(Proof of her submission.) (via: Stacy & Adam)

motherjones:

comedycentral:

If you’ve never seen it or you just want to watch it again, here’s a clip of this classic Hedberg bit.

Yup.

(Source: zombiebaby)

Goodbye, Yee-Haw.

knoxnews:

Knoxville’s been a top-10 contender in at least five lists so far this year. We could even make “lists” a subcategory of this blog, since we’re finding Knoxville on a new list every week.

But it’s our friends to the Southeast in Gatlinburg who made the list today.

Forbes has named Gatlinburg…