New Yorker magazine alert thread

i just read that gina rinehart piece. good stuff

normally I am OK with Sedaris, but this week's piece was a must-miss.

did the tim minchin piece describe him as garbage?

The history of the fork is so awful, so obviously insular and self-obsessed that I keep checking the byline to see if it's an Adam Gopnik piece.

Dapper Dan piece was interesting, informative - a corner of fashion I had no idea about before

i had never thought abt those outfits not being real gucci or whatever, tho obvs if i had it wouldve been obvious, cool piece, a bit of a hagiography, but cool none the less

Yeah, Kramer's personal histories about cooking in her Tuscan farmhouse or whatever usually bug me, so I skipped to where she more directly discussed the book, which was more rewarding.

i love the look and feel of the nyer ipad app but i hate how every issue is like 180mb and you can't download them in the bg

it would also be cool if you had the option to scroll through the longer articles instead of being locked in to the static page layout.

also would be cool if you could change the type size (i discovered that larger print makes reading at the gym way easier after accidentally buying the large-print edition of lost city of z)

yeah exactly... you can't even select/quote text, let alone change text size, cuz i think they're just flat images

it's not good.

what i dont get is sometimes it does download in the background sometimes no whats up w that

that's probably to prevent ppl sharing stuff that's behind the paywall-- u can't select/quote text out of the print edition either think abt it

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I sent the dapper Dan piece to a friend as an email w/ 20 separate screenshots as attachments-- click "view all images" in gmail and they load just like a webpage m/l #lifehack

haha

what i dont get is sometimes it does download in the background sometimes no whats up w that

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its some kind of newsstand thing, i dont get it either!

that's probably to prevent ppl sharing stuff that's behind the paywall-- u can't select/quote text out of the print edition either think abt it

this is lame #sharingculture

psst new yorker its 2013 information wants to be free

hello open web #learnaboutit

#openalwayswins

well that horace mann article was absolutely riveting.

hey fao whoever was asking for recommended reads from the last year, i remembered there was that issue with the two kinda environmental articles, one about geoengineering which was really good & another about "has a guy found the answer to our energy solution" which was momentarily exciting & then a buzzkill. just fwiw.

yeah those were both good

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/03/sonali-deraniyagala-wave-review-teju-cole.html

yeah that whole sinkhole/torture history/trans/ballet issue was pretty great

Not sure if this cartoon should go here or the caption contest thread, but:

http://www.newyorker.com/images/2013/04/01/p465/130401_cn-5_p465.jpg

lol

did anyone read the CIA thing this week

no but you have my attention

i read it

i usu skip steve coll ish tbh

i have not read it but am planning to

grady did you read it?

not yet

Did not know Iron Lady piece was gonna be a William finnegan joint. I fuckin love him.

s f-j is p offtm generally in this jt piece, but 'friends w/ benefits' is not at all 'terrible' cmon bro

yeah friends w/ benefits was way worse than merely terrible

never felt more alone than when balls deserted me

movie requires you not only have a tolerance of flash mobs but find them absolutely wonderful. it was better than no strings attached, at least the leads were fun.

Requiring Kunis and JT to "make love" to serious music to signify their commitment to Something Lasting And True was gross imo.

xp def agree flash mob is worse than terrible but thats just like the last ~10 min iirc? it's a p funny movie til then

plus c'mon who doesn't remember semisonic did 'closing time'

What's wrong with Steve Coll?

he has a bit of a coll

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The story about the Horace Mann pedo was crazy.

i know!

as for Kriakou, I kept thinking of Kevin Bacon in JFK mode playing ("Oh bring ON those muthafuckas with dere college degrees. I got nuthin to HIDE").

The story about the Horace Mann pedo was crazy.

Literally crazy -- the main guy (Berman) sounds totally deranged.

yeah it was pretty nuts, i like when he ranked himself 27th all time