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EJ Dickson excuse how a joke “ fact ” she and a ally added to the Amelia Bedelia Wikipedia Thomas Nelson Page in 2009 ( while stoned ) fooled scholars , authors , and even Herman Parish , the nephew of author Peggy Parish who has been write new entries in the Amelia Bedelia series since his aunt ’s death . [ The Daily Dot ]
Joe Zadeh examines the unusual , sci - fi history of the many direction sound has been used as a artillery , and the room that modern law and military forces plan on using it for crowd control and other uses . [ Motherboard ]
Rebecca Flint Marx looks at the relationship between chef , restaurateurs , and Yelpers , and comes away with a surprising conclusion : the agonistic , conflicted , tormented erotic love - hate interplay between the food industry and the app users who go over it has all the psychological hallmarks of an abusive relationship . [ San Francisco Magazine ]
Paul Ford , as only Paul Ford can , take a delightfully abstruse honkytonk into something you ’ve plausibly never pay denotative attention to : the architecture of the way that serve as the backdrop for so many cumbersome , inexpert , weird YouTube videos . You ’ve construe them a million times — the angle of a webcam pointed at a beige wall and white-hot roof in some midwestern basement is a totem of internet refinement — but you ’ve believably never recall about them this deeply . [ Medium ]
Eric Geller give us the account of “ whoa if rightful , ” the often - typed Twitter semi - joke - turned shorthand for “ conditional but still premature aroused reactions ; ” and why such a strangely specific phase of response is so central to our always - on cyberspace intelligence oscillation . [ The Daily Dot ]
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