Caleb Wilde is a sixth-generation funeral director who wants to reacquaint us all with the uncomfortable, eye-opening realities of death. It’ll make us more human, he says. If it doesn’t kill him firs
Welcome to numbers post #2. Last week , we started at 1 and slowly and steadily worked our way up to 1,000,000. We used dots. It was cute. Well fun time’s over. Today, shit gets real. Before things ge
Introducing the Bittersweet Spot Published in Backchannel · 6 min read · Dec 3, 2014 -- I got an iPhone 6 Plus to test just before Apple put it on sale in September. Two days later I was having brunch
How her pop transformation signifies artistic maturity Published in Cuepoint · 8 min read · Oct 26, 2014 -- I’ve had a tumultuous relationship with Taylor Swift. I used to not be able to stand her whe
His son didn’t get into Dartmouth and that makes him sad, because he loves his son and he knows how much pressure the boy puts on himself. I understand. His wife won’t let him have his late-night bowls of mint chocolate chip ice cream anymore and she nags him about the Sunday afternoons he spends…
1:35 A.M. A Tuesday Ernie Booth, the operations manager of the main printing plant of The New York Times , is walking the floor. The plant is a 515,000-square-foot building in Queens, on the Van Wyck
I absolutely loved this New York Times column which lamented the world of apps, where we don’t have the capability to link to content anymore: Unlike web pages, mobile apps do not have links. They do
Wh en humans move to space, we are the aliens, the extraterrestrials. And so, living in space, the oddness never quite goes away. Consider something as elemental as sleep. In 2009, with the expansive
Damn you, Peter Jackson! Let’s end this debate once and for all. Humans can see frame rates greater than 24fps (although plenty of people will argue that they can’t on the internet). I’ll explain more
What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs Eric Jackson was sitting in his hotel room on Sea Island, Ga., watching his kids splash around in the pool, when he clicked “publish” on his lat
Look. I don’t know what you’re over there thinking about. It could be simple or sophisticated, mundane or whimsical, practical or creepy. But I’m over here thinking about numbers. Again. I’ve never be
It is 4.18am. In the fireplace, where logs burned, there are now orange lumps that will soon be ash. Orion the Hunter is above the hill. Taurus, a sparkling V, is directly overhead, pointing to the Seven Sisters. Sirius, one of Orion’s heel dogs, is pumping red-blue-violet, like a galactic disco…
Aurich Lawson vs Capcom, FIGHT! The Master Chief Collection launched earlier this week, a collection of classic Halo games that included an array of changes from the originals, such as improved graphi
When you get right down to it, even a mega-million-dollar international criminal caper is mostly boring shitwork. As Frank Bourassa tells it, his own criminal masterpiece hinged on the events of one m
In the winter of 2012-13, I was fired from the ill-rumored e-commerce company known as ShipPoint. Though I remained stalwart to the end, the wretched darkness embodied in ShipPoint's CTO and his twist
Thomas Dixon has no idea what he did yesterday. Sitting across from me at an outdoor cafe, he tries to jog his memory by doing what a lot of us do habitually: checking his iPhone. Specifically, he pulls up Twitter and starts scrolling through his own feed. “Ah right,” he says. “I was talking to my…
Meet the donors, patients, doctors and scientists involved in the complex global network of rare – and very rare – blood. By Penny Bailey. His doctor drove him over the border. It was quicker that way: if the man donated in Switzerland, his blood would be delayed while paperwork was filled out and…
Introduction It has been a busy year for Apple, although one could argue it has been more of a busy few months. The yearly updates for most of Apple's products now occur in September and October, and
October 7, 2014 Privacy vs. User Experience Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of every
08 October, 2014 Dustin Curtis, designer and creator of the Svtble blogging platform , posted an article yesterday entitled Privacy vs. User Experience . In this article, Curtis claims that “Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of…
In Debug 47 , former Apple managers Don Melton and Nitin Ganatra talk about, among many other things, work habits at Apple. Here’s a transcript of the relevant section, starting at the 23-minute mark
Few people admit to buying modern military shooters for their campaigns, and it's not hard to see why. The Battlefield s and Call of Duty s are derided for being simplistic shooting galleries that hol
[Following on from the first two parts, this is the grand finale of Quinns' evisceration of the game Walker described as "Oblivion with Cancer". As a compliment. Lots of spoilers, but you should read
[Following on from yesterday's installment , Quinns continues his examination of the award winning Russian obscurity Pathologic . Spoilers abound. Oh - and if all this has tempted you, it turns out it
The fact that the USAF is so willing to throw away 300 of the finest close air support platforms ever invented just to save the cost equivalent of 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters is total bullshit and b
Every Sunday, we reach deep into Rock, Paper, Shotgun's 141-year history to pull out one of the best moments from the archive . This week, since the Kickstarter for the remake ends in two days , part
Illustration by Perrin for BuzzFeed There was a cascade of input — triangles and sky and gravel sound and music on the radio and wind and the feeling of rough cloth near my hands. I could not make sen
You are a threat. It’s a strong word. I don’t mean that you intend pain, injury, or damage. But I’m an introvert and you – as a new unknown human – are a threat to me. I don’t know what you want and y
We've been trying to figure out the moment Twitter turned, retracing tweets to see whether there was something specific that soured the platform. Something is wrong on Twitter. And people are noticing
If you travel, you've probably found yourself stuck with zero network connectivity on more than one occasion. This sucks, especially if you just want to look up a few previously viewed pages to get so
Today marks five years since I launched the website that my mom still refers to as ' the other bedbugs '. Happy business birthday to me! Any site that aspires to be an archive starts life with a credi
PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) ___________ Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really go
Everyday I interact with, use, carry, and yell at an immense amount of devices. Most of these devices have either been directly purchased by me, selected by me, or something of that ilk — I’ve had a h
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