Wednesday, July 15th, 2015

• People under 35 spend almost 4 hours per day on Social Media, and more of that time is being spent engaging with brands. Harvard Business Review writes that your company should be helping customers on Social.
• Chuck Palahniuk has announced that David Fincher & Trent Reznor are going to work on a Fight Club rock opera! (via @verge)
• Why Bastian Schweinsteiger will fit in at Manchester United (via @ManUtd).
• Amazing New Horizons' photos from the Pluto flyby are here, and they are superb (via @voxdotcom).
• The new iPod Touch is here.
• Today was Prime Day on Amazon. Did you get anything good?

Sunday, June 7th, 2015

• Chris Sacca makes his case regarding Twitter. Read his longform article, "What Twitter can be," and see why Twitter is here to stay.
• The next generation of spreadsheets will be a database via @InfoWorld.
• @hasanminhaj's latest skit on #DailyShow: Minhaj's Muslim Makeover via YouTube.
• Now that the Champions League is over (Barcelona won), all eyes are on the Summer Transfer Window. Manchester United's De Gea and Real Madrid's Benzema may be involved in a transfer swap via @ESPNFC.
• FLUME says he doesn't make dance music, but festivalgoers disagree via @guardian.
• If you're looking for a new podcast to try, try these 45 great picks from the TED staff.
• There's a new app that lets you challenge your friends to a boat race using the Rowing Machine at the gym via @techcrunch.
• The Surprising Persuasiveness of a Sticky Note via @HBR.
• A new theory to explain the Higgs mass via @WIRED.
• The FIFA Women's 2015 World Cup has started! Follow on Fox Sports.
• 'Serial' Season 2 and 3 get Premiere dates via @VARIETY.
• The 12 most important announcements from Google I/O 2015 via @verge. You can also watch the entire 2-hour keynote on YouTube here.
• Apple's WWDC 15 starts tomorrow! Excited?

#NowPlaying Major Lazer - Peace is the Mission

Tuesday, May 19th, 2015

• Back on May 9th, First-Lady Michelle Obama had a brutally honest speech about racism during a keynote at Tuskegee University's Commencement 2015. Here is a video of her speech in full (via YouTube).
• A 13-Year-Old writes on his view on Social Media (via @Medium).
• Alibaba wants to bring March Madness to China (via @business).
• The best not to have won the Champions League (via @championsleague).
• Superb longform article by Josh Dzieza on the war on rats (via @verge).
• I don't watch the other series, but I would definitely watch this: NCIS: Ibiza ;) (via @funnyordie).
• Netflix might revive Top Gear as "House of Cars?" (via engadget)
• Patrick Martyn writes about his tale of tryout for the Ohio State marching band (via @sbnation).
• Watch Stephen Colbert's keynote speech at Wake Forest University Commencement 2015 (starts at 59min). He warns the graduating class to get their act together if they don't want to live in a "Mad Max" style dystopian future.
• Jay Z goes on a Tidal freestyle rampage against Apple, Google, YouTube and Spotify, but who will have the last laugh? (via TechCrunch)
• Recently, The New York Times wrote about the benefits of Coffee. It resulted into a lot of comments in questions. Here is the follow-up article.
• Check out this 60-Second Science Video about the loneliest place in the universe from Science American.
• The Coming Cyberpeace: The Normative Argument Against Cyberwarfare (via Foreign Affairs).
• What CEOs have learned about Social Media (via Harvard Business Review).
• A writer at The Cauldron (on Medium) writes that for 17 years, we have been worshipping false idols, and that the best player since Jordan was Tim Duncan.
• Apple releases cheaper Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch (via @verge).
• China wants to create a 3000 miles railway through the Amazon (via @guardian).
• @Madeon warns that Sony will take down all of his music from his Soundcloud in the next few days. Have a farewell listen (via @YourEDM).
• Grand Theft Auto designer: "We wanted to poke fun at US culture" (via @voxdotcom).
• Facebook changed his News Feed algorithm yet again, should you stay or should you go? (via @chelseahejny).
• American's young are turning their backs on politics (via @TheEconomist).
• $1 million is apparently no longer enough to retire (via @YahooFinance).
• Amazing new cover of the New Yorker magazine by Carter Goodrich (via @NewYorker).
• Simon Pegg confirms the next TREK is called STAR TREK BEYOND and discuss recent comments he made causing controversy via (@bmoviesd).
• M. Bison returns for Street Fighter 5 (via @Polygon).
• Ev Williams on Barack Obama being on Twitter and why it matters (via @Medium).
• Slack now has a podcast.

#NowPlaying Tiesto - Club Life, Vol 4 - New York City

Cinco de Mayo 2015

• The French parliament just approved a sweeping surveillance bill. It's a shame since it will hurt civil liberties in France.
• Juventus beat Real Madrid 2-1 in the Champions League semi-final first leg.
• Mophie is now offering a waterproof battery pack for the iPhone 6 for pre-order.
• Dr. Darya Rose (@summertomato) just released her book FOODIST on paperback.
• Here's a story from the New York Times of a guy rescued by air ambulance, and stuck with a bill for $47,182.
• Someone created an app specifically designed to connect Israelis and Palestinians.
• @deadmau5 made a soundtrack for a new video game called "Project Cars."
• Apparently, this Simpsons Matrix is ought to help you make better first impressions.
• Someone re-imagined "The Last of Us" as a TV series, which is a great way to show it off to people outside of video games.
• Gary Vaynerchuck just posted Episode 92 and 93 of the #AskGaryVee show on YouTube.
• If you like wine, there's a "huge sale" on Friday, May 8th at Noon over at winelibrary.com.
• I just ordered this book: "Data Science from Scratch." If you're interested in Data Science, check it out.
• Here's a cool video of dogs splattering paint in slow motion.
• I re-watched "The Pursuit of Happyness" recently. What a great movie.
• There are 22 days left until Google I/O 2015.
• There are 33 days left until Apple WWDC 2015.

#NowPlaying Data - Heartbeat (feat. Basile Di Manski)

PS. Happy Cinco de Mayo. I already celebrated on Saturday (Dos de Mayo 2015).