Sunday, April 5th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for April 5, 2015:
- No links, no style, no service
- The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship, by @JessBruder (RT @ockenrock)
- Y’all Connect: Alabama Power: Once, twice, three times a sponsor
- On 10th anniversary of “The Office” (US), an oral history of “Diversity Day”
- Speaking gigs: Rocket City Bloggers, April 2015
- The weird world of Yahoo News, by @lehmannchris
- Tango time for Noah Galloway on Week 3 of “Dancing with the Stars”
- JOURNALISM: @RollingStone and UVA: The @ColumbiaJourn Report on “A Rape on Campus”
- Fugitives escape justice by crossing state lines, by @BradHeath //Full series
- Open Cases: Why 1/3 of US Murders Go Unresolved, by @MartinKaste (via @NPRinskeep)
- The Perfect Birth Control for Men Is Here. Why Can’t We Use It? By @Arikia Millikan
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Sunday, March 29th, 2015
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for March 22, 2015:
- Speaking gigs: Birmingham Bloggers, March 2015
- How loud must UAB yell to be heard? By Kyle Whitmire @warondumb
- NY firefighters: 10,000+ men, 1 woman and 1 self-identified “trans,” by @IreneCNwoye
- Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 203: The first 200 days are always the bulkiest
- Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband, by @CliffKuang
- Way More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About “Animaniacs,” by Rob Lammle @SpaceMonkeyX
- Flashback: Y’all Connect: Put a chimp on it
- Q&A with comedian/actor @PattonOswalt, by David Daley
- How Video Game Breasts Are Made (and Why They Can Go Wrong), by @xpatriciah
- Noah Galloway tries cha cha on Week 1 of “Dancing with the Stars”
- How “South Park” Was Born: Oral History of “The Spirit of Christmas” by @JamesHibberd
- Former AL Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb @JudgeCobb on money in politics
- Why we pretend opinions are equal, & the ramifications by @ChrisCMooney (via @struppj)
- @MrJonCryer on Inside, Insane Account of Charlie Sheen’s Infamous Meltdown
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Sunday, March 15th, 2015
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Sunday, March 8th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for March 8, 2015:
- 67 reasons guests give to attend Y’all Connect
- Gay Talese returns to Selma, a place “none of us can quite escape”
- Virginia Woolf on Writing and Self-Doubt, by Maria Popova @brainpicker
- Workshop in Huntsville on April 25 — you pick the topic
- A Chinese book tour, with Peter Hessler and his censor
- What Netflix Can Teach Content Marketers, by @TheCoolestCool (via @MrBenites)
- David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact, by @JoshRoiland
- The Dark Side of Caffeine, by Murray Carpenter @Murray_journo
- Flashback: Project Bulk: Day 189: I can see clearly now
- My first garden
- @sistaelaine, the Woman Who Led the Black Panthers (via @wordpressdotcom)
- Scientists to edit DNA of tomorrow’s babies. Should they? By @AntonioRegalado
- Utah’s shockingly simple, cost-effective way to end homelessness, by Scott Carrier
- Cover to Cover, by @TomGauld
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Sunday, March 1st, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for March 1, 2015:
- Y’all Connect: All you need to know for 2015
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has No Interest in Retiring, by @nytimescollins (via @vsisson13)
- Amazon won the book war. What’s next? By @CaseyNewton (via @BooksLIVESA)
- Workshop on March 25, but what to discuss?
- What is dark is not empty; a True Picture of Black Skin, by @TejuCole (RT @KateBomz)
- @PeterLik’s Road to Success: Sell Prints. Print $$. By David Segal (via @WorldPhotoOrg)
- Flashback: Project Bulk – Month 18: Paint by numbers
- 14 Books on Psychology, Philosophy and How to Live Meaningfully, by @brainpicker
- Tilapia, cheap to farm, not nearly as healthy as other fish: by @nytrosenthal
- How blogger @MrMoneyMustache retired at 30, by Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka
- What Really Happened To The Cars From “Pimp My Ride,” by @ToddVanLuling
- Hunting the silent killer, Hepatitis C, by @PatrickStrud (RT @mosaicscience)
- Prison rape and the risk to teenage cons, by @MauriceChammah (via @sdmattpotter)
- @JulienneGrey on loving and losing her mother (RT @BinderCon)
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2015
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Sunday, February 15th, 2015
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Sunday, February 8th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 8, 2015:
- On “Our Mockingbird,” and a Harper Lee sequel novel
- Husband’s salary makes life easier for @AnnBauerWriter. On patronage and writing
- Bryan Stevenson: “America’s Mandela,” a book excerpt (RT @Jay_Reeves)
- Y’all Connect: New books from speakers: The real you, plus zombies
- The 20 Most Satisfying Kisses in TV History, by Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis
- A Normal Day in the Unusual Life of Michael Keaton, by Tom Chiarella @Chiareality
- What’s your biggest fear in blogging?
- How to read like a writer, by Maria Popova @brainpicker
- Vulture ranks all 121 Billy Joel songs, by @heybonanos
- Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 162: Where does it end?
- Oral History of “The Facts of Life,” compiled by Will Harris @nonstoppop
- The Kill Team: How US Soldiers in Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians by @MarkBoal
- These Guys See Hundreds of Millions in Nike Resale Profit by @LisaEChow (via @ramit)
- My neighborhood revolution, one letter at a time, by @dwatkinsworld
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Sunday, February 1st, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for Feb. 1, 2015:
- Y’all Connect: Stalking the storytellers
- Unusual Books That Shaped Billionaires, Best-Selling Authors, Prodigies, by @TFerriss
- RT @martibk: faulkner.
- Flashback: Snowpocalypse 2014, as seen in Alabama newspapers’ front pages
- This promotion can net 6,000 subscribers in 1 month, by @WillHoekenga (via @MariSmith)
- The Rapid Evolution of Emoji, a Wordless Tongue by Adam @Sternbergh (via @BooksLIVESA)
- The great Twitter cleanup
- Birmingham Library to hold Local Authors Expo Saturday #bham
- @JillStanek recommends following Jon Winokur @AdviceToWriters for great writing tips.
- Flashback: Project Bulk – Month 17: What I’ve lost
- Happy Crappy: Guide to Writing the Music on “Bob’s Burgers,” by @EricThurm
- Why Mississippi leads nation in child vaccination by @tcfrankel (via @charlesornstein)
- Death of a Family Farm, by @KristinaJ26 (via @AJConnolly1)
- 101 Masterpieces: “The Twilight Zone,” by Jake Rossen (RT @crewless)
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Sunday, January 25th, 2015
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Sunday, January 18th, 2015
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Sunday, January 11th, 2015
My picks for #sundayread for Jan. 11, 2015:
- Two timely notes on LinkedIn
- Birmingham’s @Amber_Benson answers questions on Reddit
- For Sale: “Your Name Here” in Prestigious Science Journal, by @cgseife (via @marovdan)
- Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 133: Hands and arms
- The Long, Strange, Impossible Journey That Brought “Archer” to TV, by @SamThielman
- Ai Weiwei @aiww is Living in Our Future, by @HansdeZwart
- Y’all Connect: Erika Napoletano on brutal honesty, bold results
- How to Email with Old Friend After Falling Out of Touch, by @ftrain (via @jehawbaker)
- How the Death of Mid-Budget Cinema Left Iconic Filmmakers MIA, by @jasondashbailey
- “Warhol: Fabricated” exhibit at AEIVA through end of February
- “Star Trek: The Next Generation” in 40 Hours, by @MaxTemkin (RT @bmbufalo)
- CIA, on Path to Torture, Chose Haste Over Analysis (via @BuzzFeedAndrew)
- Do police interrogation techniques produce false confessions? By @DouglasStarr
- How to Write, by Heather Havrilesky @hhavrilesky
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Sunday, January 4th, 2015
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Sunday, December 28th, 2014
My picks for #sundayread for Dec. 28, 2014, highlighting the year’s best reads:
- Social trumped corporate in story of Atlanta, by @ChuckReece:
- Great piece on myth of 3-act screenplay structure, by @filmcrithulk
- Green and gold and black and blue: On the murder of UAB sports #freeuab
- Learning From Legos, by Thomas de @Monchaux
- Invisible Child: a 5-part series, by @AndreaFElliott
- Gambling in Alabama: A game of political intrigue, by @Josh_Moon
- How to stop giving a F@$% what people think, by @heyseankim
- How poor Mississippi got left behind by Obamacare, by @SarahVarney
- Revolution on Sorority Row: Discrimination at U of Alabama’s Rush by @KaylaWebley
- Secrets of the Creative Brain, by Nancy Andreasen
- How Mich’s Greed Alienated Fans: Warning for College Football by @JohnuBacon
- The Secret Life of Passwords, by @ian_urbina
- The Case for Reparations, by @TaNehisiCoates
- Frozen-mania: How Elsa, Anna and Olaf conquered the world, by @DorianLynskey
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