poetsorg: Aram Saroyan from Coffee Coffee

poetsorg:

Aram Saroyan from Coffee Coffee

(Source: slantedshanty, via thetinhouse)

3 months ago
everlane: *Pre-read fun fact: Men at Everlane—7. Women—15. Excerpt from Lauren Bacon’s “Tech Companies, stop hiring women to be Office Mom”:“Whenever I visit a tech company’s website…more often than not, I have to scroll past four or more men before I see a woman (on the Team page)—and very frequently, her title places her in one of the “people” roles: human resources, communications, project or client management, user experience, customer service, or office administration. This wouldn’t be a problem in and of itself…except that there are a couple of complicating factors: Coders are lionized in the tech sector, and are compensated for their technical skills with higher wages and positional power—so women without coding chops are automatically less likely to advance to senior positions or command the highest salaries. There is a culture in tech companies that simultaneously reveres the “user” (at least as a source of revenue and data) and places low expectations on coders to empathize with users (or colleagues, for that matter)—creating a disconnect that can only be bridged by assigning user (and team) empathy responsibilities to another department.” Do you work at a tech company? Do you find these dynamics to be true? Photo from Life Magazine.

everlane:

*Pre-read fun fact: Men at Everlane—7. Women—15.

Excerpt from Lauren Bacon’s “Tech Companies, stop hiring women to be Office Mom”:

“Whenever I visit a tech company’s website…more often than not, I have to scroll past four or more men before I see a woman (on the Team page)—and very frequently, her title places her in one of the “people” roles: human resources, communications, project or client management, user experience, customer service, or office administration. This wouldn’t be a problem in and of itself…except that there are a couple of complicating factors:

  1. Coders are lionized in the tech sector, and are compensated for their technical skills with higher wages and positional power—so women without coding chops are automatically less likely to advance to senior positions or command the highest salaries.

  2. There is a culture in tech companies that simultaneously reveres the “user” (at least as a source of revenue and data) and places low expectations on coders to empathize with users (or colleagues, for that matter)—creating a disconnect that can only be bridged by assigning user (and team) empathy responsibilities to another department.”

Do you work at a tech company? Do you find these dynamics to be true?

Photo from Life Magazine.

3 months ago
huffposttaste: We sat down with Court Street Grocers to talk sandwiches, Sandy and why Red Hook rules.

huffposttaste:

We sat down with Court Street Grocers to talk sandwiches, Sandy and why Red Hook rules.

(via newyorkmouth)

3 months ago
nevver: Grand Central Constellations, Arts for Transit

nevver:

Grand Central Constellations, Arts for Transit

3 months ago
explore-blog: The Cartography of Kitchenware from PopChartLab, who have previously mapped the varieties of coffee, the history of Apple, America’s bike lanes, the composition of classic cocktails, the wonders of serif fonts, Gotham’s villains, and music’s most famous guitars.

explore-blog:

The Cartography of Kitchenware from PopChartLab, who have previously mapped the varieties of coffee, the history of Apple, America’s bike lanes, the composition of classic cocktails, the wonders of serif fonts, Gotham’s villains, and music’s most famous guitars.

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3 months ago
npr: goodtypography: ‘dog as fonts’ by grafisches büro Happy Wednesday! -L

npr:

goodtypography:

‘dog as fonts’ by grafisches büro

Happy Wednesday! -L

3 months ago

nevver:

Google Map Pin Birdhouse

4 months ago
nevver: The trouble is…

nevver:

The trouble is…

4 months ago
npr: Saturday Night Live and Portlandia personality Fred Armisen co-hosts This American Life with Ira Glass. This week’s theme: doppelgangers. Armisen imitates Glass through the hour-long show, something Armisen worked on for SNL, “but the public radio personality isn’t quite famous enough to be mocked on network TV,” according to TAL’s website. -L Photo by Adrianne Mathiowetz

npr:

Saturday Night Live and Portlandia personality Fred Armisen co-hosts This American Life with Ira Glass. This week’s theme: doppelgangers. Armisen imitates Glass through the hour-long show, something Armisen worked on for SNL, “but the public radio personality isn’t quite famous enough to be mocked on network TV,” according to TAL’s website. -L

Photo by Adrianne Mathiowetz

4 months ago
“It’s a relief to me to open a book by a writer I love. All the noise of life and the small-talk and the pettiness and the things that are inessential, they suddenly drop away. Everything that doesn’t matter is gone in an instant and you’re in a world where everything matters in the most critical way. I want to live there. I want to make a life there.” —Nicole Krauss, from the documentary interview “We Create Who We Are”

“It’s a relief to me to open a book by a writer I love. All the noise of life and the small-talk and the pettiness and the things that are inessential, they suddenly drop away. Everything that doesn’t matter is gone in an instant and you’re in a world where everything matters in the most critical way. I want to live there. I want to make a life there.”

—Nicole Krauss, from the documentary interview “We Create Who We Are”

(via wwnorton)

4 months ago

everlane:

Designed by London’s Haptic Architects, the Mountain Lodge on Sognefjorden is a remote compound of cabins complete with indoor soaking pools.

Yes, please.

4 months ago

mcnallyjackson:

Jeez, we really shouldn’t have left all those George Saunders books in the kids section. 

I’ll be reading Tenth of December this weekend! :)

4 months ago

Obama for America: This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For

barackobama:

The official White House response to a petition to secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016:

By Paul Shawcross

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon. Here are a few…

4 months ago
iconoclassic: stopmakingsandwiches: Promo poster for NoBrow publishing

iconoclassic:

stopmakingsandwiches: Promo poster for NoBrow publishing

(via casualoptimist)

4 months ago

What I’m reading

So he was broke. And when he realized he could not pay Kit’s tuition, it was too late to apply for any other aid. Too late to transfer.
Was it a tragedy that a healthy young woman like Kit would take a semester off of college? No, it was not a tragedy. The long, tortured history of the world would take no notice of a missed semester of college for a smart and capable young woman like Kit. She would survive. It was no tragedy. Nothing like tragedy.

- from A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers

4 months ago