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On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined. Traffic to Netflix usually peaks at…
Bobby Hossain’s day starts early. Along with his family, he runs a food truck called Phat Thai that serves his mother’s Thai recipes “with a modern twist.” Although he won’t be serving customers for nearly 4 hours, he wakes up by 7:30am. He is working a double shift in the truck (lunch and dinner),…
My Brother, My Mother, and a Call Girl by Mara Cohen Marks My brother Danny lost his virginity at age 25. To a call girl named Monique. Hired by our mother. My mother didn’t bother asking Danny for his permission before engaging Monique’s services. She didn’t ask my father to condone the…
Eater sent Top Chef recapper and comedian Max Silvestri to Top Chef: The Cruise. He made it back in one piece to file this report:
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Over four days at sea, I see no one happier than Hubert Keller. The Alsatian-born chef and Top Chef Master has an armful of restaurants and James…
Homecoming This is the text of a talk I gave to Bloomington High School South’s gay-straight alliance in Indiana on April 24, 2013. The talk was part of Live Out Loud ’s Homecoming Project . This is a combination of my prep notes and my own memory of what I said. It’s not a word-for-word transcript,…
Taco at the sausage party Over the past few months, I’ve been lucky to get interviewed a lot (lucky, because it means I have something to promote, specifically, my little television program ). Nikki and I get asked a variety of questions, but we always, inevitably, get asked some version of, “What…
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Zack Greinke’s out until June, Carlos Quentin has caused 1,000 “What did they teach you at Stanford??” jokes, and everyone else is trying to sort out what happened. We’re half a day past the Petco Punchout, still trying to figure out what the final fallout will be. If you missed it, Quentin came to…
This past January, Dwayne Johnson licensed a project for his production company, a story about teddy bears protecting kids from demonic dragon monsters that attack while they’re asleep. But Teddy Bear , as it’s tentatively called, wasn’t a script or a novel or a comic book. It was a drawing that…
A few days later, the Internet Business Starter Pack arrived. Consisting of a single DVD and a 12 page glossy sales brochure that "could’ve been designed by some high school kid," according to Hansen, what most infuriated him was what the kit lacked: any indication of the actual business behind the…
Here are some attempts to describe “Weird Twitter,” gathered from around the internet: 1. “[An] intentionally wrong style of idiotic comedy” 2. “A loose group of Twitter users who write in a less accessible form, using sloppy punctuation/spelling/capitalization, poetic experimentation with sentence…
I was thinking of those Taco Bell stops during a recent week of travel. I had determined, as a way of avoiding the pitfalls of airport food, to be vegan for the length of the trip. This isn’t easy. By the time I got to Terminal C at Dallas/Fort Worth, I couldn’t bear another Veggie Delite from…
A Place for Sharing Ideas and Stories There is plenty of media in the world already. And no matter what happens to traditional media economics, there’s nothing to stop the torrent of information rushing from smartphones, corporations, and new-fangled media startups onto the Internet, available for…
Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams and Jason Goldman accept the award for “Best Blog” on behalf of Twitter at SXSW 2007. Photo by Scott Beale . This past January, two of Twitter’s founders appeared on Charlie Rose . After stepping back from the microblogging service — it’s now valued at $10…
Feminism’s Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in? Kate Losse ▪ March 26, 2013 www.katiecouric.com Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In isn’t the first social movement spearheaded by a Facebook executive. “Together we are starting a movement,” announced Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s 2007 F8 conference.…
All of us have experienced the unique sensation of having our guts move from their normal resting positions. Whether from a roller coaster or a dive into a pool, it’s a shared human experience. In fact, as humans, we go to great lengths to feel extreme versions of kinetic energy and the exhilaration…
The abject horror of the see-through yoga pants recall crescendoed to new, tragic heights when customers attempted to return their PG-13 garments. “I went into my local store to return my Astro pants,” one customer wrote on Tuesday on Lululemon’s public Facebook page. “I was asked to bend over in…
The buses roll up to San Francisco’s bus stops in the morning and evening, but they are unmarked, or nearly so, and not for the public. They have no signs or have discreet acronyms on the front windshield, and because they also have no rear doors they ingest and disgorge their passengers slowly,…
The first thing you smell at the Huy Fong Foods factory in suburban Los Angeles is the overwhelming aroma of garlic, a key ingredient in the company’s signature product: Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce. The first thing you see, however, doesn’t make nearly as much sense. In the lobby is a blown-up picture…
Why Developing Serious Relationships in Your 20s Matters Are you in your twenties? Are you an entrepreneur? Have you been told by your friends, your advisors, and your professional peers that now is your time to build your own life and not worry about things like settling down and having children —…
Comedy fans have been tracking Aziz Ansari for a long time, and across a wide variety of comedy platforms. He earned national attention on TV with sketch troupe Human Giant. He broke into films with Observe And Report , Funny People , and 30 Minutes Or Less , among others. He’s involved in…
Get the Kindle version: If you're paying attention to what's going on in the design world, you've probably noticed the ongoing debate around skeuomorphism vs flat design . So here's a quick test. Which of these two calculators feature a skeuomorphic design? Which of these two apps is skeuomorphic?…
But I wasn’t in Palo Alto. I started my journey in Los Angeles because that’s where Tesla’s design studio is located, a corrugated metal hangar just steps from the single-runway Hawthorne Municipal Airport where military contractor Northrop once designed and built iconic aircraft like the T-38…
Sam Byford: What are you up to in Japan this time — anything interesting? Craig Mod: I'm partially just kinda escaping. I like to take a couple of weeks at the end of the year and just work on writing projects that I'm working on in the background. I find the end of the year is a nice time — it's…
O ne of the greatest moments I’ve ever seen involving anything that lasts for only 22 minutes happened on a Thursday night in the spring of 2010. James “Toofer” Spurlock (Keith Powell) bounded into Tracy Jordan’s dressing room with some urgency. On his way into work, a stranger called him a…
The cult of TV brilliance, like a runner on third with less than two outs, demands sacrifice. What unites classic, obsessed-over shows like Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared , and Arrested Development isn’t just their sparkling dialogue; it’s their martyrdom. All three were shows that had plenty of time…
Earlier this month, Brian Dennehy started a new job as chief marketing officer of Nordstrom Inc. In his first week, he pulled aside a colleague to ask a question: How hard it is for a nonemployee to enter the building? Mr. Dennehy doesn't have a particular interest in corporate security. He just…
I hate the gym. At least, I hate “the gym” as imagined by the modern American health club: the mindless repetitions on the weight machines, halfhearted crunches, daytime TV during the treadmill. Such a sad, unimaginative excuse for a life, when I could be out rock-climbing, surfing, or, hell, even…
Contents Brace yourselves, what follows is an amazingly long blog post about the best order in which to watch Star Wars. First, let me say this: for people that couldn't care less about the prequel trilogy, I suggest Harmy's Despecialized Editions . They are 720p videos that are the result of…
The following was first published in the excellent e-book The Hall of the Nearly Great , which you'll enjoy if you like baseball, good sportswriting, independent sportswriting or any combination of the above. Kenny Lofton was an athlete, a baseball player, and a great basestealer, but most of all he…
On the set of "The Canyons" in Los Angeles last summer: Amanda Brooks, Lindsay Lohan and Paul Schrader. Jeff Minton for The New York Times Lindsay Lohan moves through the Chateau Marmont as if she owns the place, but in a debtor-prison kind of way. She’ll soon owe the hotel $46,000. Heads turn…
Last night’s Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off faced a lot of stiff competition for our viewing attention. What luck did this senior project of a TV show have against the likes of the Golden Globes, new episodes of Downton Abbey and The Good Wife , and the premieres of Girls, Enlightened , and…
Did anybody have a good 2012? I did not. I have polled a lot of people, or at least some people, and everyone I talked to agrees that 2012 belongs in the garbage bucket. My New Year’s resolution is to buy a garbage bucket. Even Obama, who in 2012 was a doctor office’s magazine’s Person of the Year…
[Translations: Japanese ] Cops, emergency room doctors, and insurance actuarists all know it. They realize how many crazy impossible things happen all the time. A burglar gets stuck in a chimney, a truck driver in a head on collision is thrown out the front window and lands on his feet, walks away;…
Mitch Hurwitz, creator of the comedy canceled seven years ago, says the Netflix model 'flies in the face' of TV. Gob (Will Arnett), Michael (Jason Bateman) and the rest of the Bluth clan resume their bickering in May thanks to Netflix. (Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon) Story Highlights The beloved comedy…
Jerry Seinfeld began his commute after dinner, in no particular hurry. Around quarter to 8 on a drizzly Tuesday, he left his Manhattan home — a palatial duplex apartment with picture windows and a broad terrace overlooking Central Park — and made for a nearby garage. Due to tell jokes at a comedy…
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Tenth Grade Tech Trends A few months ago, my fifteen-year-old sister told me that Snapchat was going to be the next Instagram. Many months before that she told me that Instagram was being used by her peers as much as Facebook. Both times I snickered. Learning from past mistakes, I took some time…
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