The Victorian bustle made way for the big butt obsession The new Slate Decoder Ring podcast episode on the history of butts and bustles is pretty amazing. As always, what starts as an innocent question “why is having a big butt popular now when 30 years ago people tried to get rid of them?” then …
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Google Maps adds a cycling layer
I'm really happy to hear Google launched their support of bikes in their Maps app today. There was talk about how this was in development way back when they launched walking directions and subway map details, and I imagine there had to be a lot of work to bring safer bike lane/street information into a …
Becoming an old (blogging) man
Today I realized that I’m part of the “old guard” of blogging because I remember a time when blogging was so new that very few sites had comments (it seems like MetaFilter was one of the first few?) and after a few years when they started to become commonplace, people were generally decent to each …
Diverse means a lot of things
In the course of two posts, Anil completely nails the problem of gender (and other) biases in the web industry. When I think back to the most interesting talks over the past 3-4 years, it was always from someone outside the norm, something that could bring a fresh perspective instead of the same tired “here’s …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 