Weekly Wreck of the Web #19

[Some catching up to do ...]

Ten links of interest:

1. Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago

2. Verse Goes Viral: How Young Feminist Writers Are Reclaiming Poetry for the Digital Age

3. Dr. Katz Is Back in the Healing Business with New Audio Series

4. In Trump Era, Women's Views of Nation's Prospects Take a Negative Turn [hmm, wonder why]

5. Villagers Knit Jumpers for Elephants to Protect Them From Near-Freezing Temperatures

6. Updated Trump Doctor Letter

7. The Census Is Much More Important Than You May Realize

8. What We Lose When We Give Awards to Men Like Casey Affleck

9. Under-Dog: Hounds Photographed from Underneath - in pictures

10. Maria Bamford Spent Her Commencement Address Discussing Exactly How She Negotiated Her Fee

Weekly Wreck of the Web #18

[Some catching up to do ...]

Ten links of interest:

1. Google Is Super Secretive about Its Anti-Aging Research. No One Knows Why.

2. This Moscow Subway Car Brings an art Museum to Commuters

3. Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong

4. Vanity Fair's Secret Talent Theater (playlist) [best are Janelle Monae and Rachel Weisz]

5. Cats Using Dogs as Pillows

6. Men Really Need to Stop Calling Women Crazy

7. The Resistance Now: Big, Angry Crowds to Fight Back Against Trumpcare

8. Scout, 16, Confronts Neo-Nazi at Czech Rally

9. Lena Dunham Directs Bleachers' "Don't Take the Money" Video

10. Correction: Republican Bloodsuckers Who Sentenced Poor to Die Didn't Drink Bud Light

Weekly Wreck of the Web #17

[Some catching up to do ...]

Ten links of interest:

1. Trump and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad First 100 Days

2. Samantha Bee on Trump, Trolls, and Comedy's Fraught New Normal

3. Samantha Bee on Her Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner

4. 17 of the Best Independent Bookstores in Chicago

5. The Winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2017

6. Matthew Desmond on the Social Problem of Eviction

7. Allison Crutchfield on How "Sad Bastard Music" Rings Hollow

8. Emily's Cartoons

9. CHVRCHES | 'Down Side Of Me (Live)' | 7-Inches For Planned Parenthood

10. This Is a Science Story. It Is Definitely Not a Metaphor

Weekly Wreck of the Web #16

[Some catching up to do ...]

Ten links of interest:

1. Best of Media Corrections, 2016 Edition

2. Democrats in Illinois Just Unseated a Whole Bunch of Republicans

3. The Many Lives of Pauli Murray

4. When the Designer Shows Up in the Design

5. 30 Years in the Life of One Chinese Square - in pictures

6. A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year

7. The Radical Feminist Aesthetic of The Handmaid's Tale

8. New song from Blondie

9. What's the Environmental Footprint of a T-Shirt?

10. Why Mandatory Vaccinations Are Critical, Visualized

Weekly Wreck of the Week #15

[Some catching up to do ...]

Ten links of interest:

1. "What can I do to help Syria?"

2. Pepsi's Awful Ad Isn't an Aberration; It's a Symptom of Commodified Dissent

3. How Can the Resistance Ward Off Infiltrators?

4. Can Customs and Border Officials Search Your Phone?

5. "All I Brought with Me": Syrian Refugees Show Their Possessions - in pictures

6. Celebrating African Americans in Fashion

7. America's First Female Mayor Was Elected 130 Years Ago. Men Nominated Her as a Joke.

8. How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler

9. Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia

10. MasterChef at No. 10 (Red Nose Day 2011)