Friday Finds, V
TYPOGRAPHY 2020: A SPECIAL LISTICLE FOR AMERICA
For those who think it trivializes our political process to judge candidates by their typography—what would you prefer we scrutinize? Qualifications? Ground into dust during the last election. Issues? Be my guest. Whether a candidate will ever fulfill a certain campaign promise about a certain issue is conjectural.
But typography—that’s a real decision candidates have to make today, with real money and real consequences. And if I can’t trust you to pick somereasonable fonts and colors, then why should I trust you with the nuclear codes?
Fun website. Butterick, a typography expert and designer, reviews a bunch of the Democratic candidates' websites.
Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Over the course of many conversations with sex researchers, psychologists, economists, sociologists, therapists, sex educators, and young adults, I heard many other theories about what I have come to think of as the sex recession. I was told it might be a consequence of the hookup culture, of crushing economic pressures, of surging anxiety rates, of psychological frailty, of widespread antidepressant use, of streaming television, of environmental estrogens leaked by plastics, of dropping testosterone levels, of digital porn, of the vibrator’s golden age, of dating apps, of option paralysis, of helicopter parents, of careerism, of smartphones, of the news cycle, of information overload generally, of sleep deprivation, of obesity. Name a modern blight, and someone, somewhere, is ready to blame it for messing with the modern libido.
I blame internet-based technology, and all of its manifestations.
IF YOU WANT TO KILL SOMEONE, WE ARE THE RIGHT GUYS
Yura promised that customers' money was held by an escrow service and paid out only after a job was completed. But Allwine worried that when he deposited money it would simply end up in someone's bitcoin wallet. He wanted Yura's claims to be true, though, so against his better instincts he transferred the bitcoin. “They say that Besa means trust, so please do not break that,” he wrote Yura. “For reasons that are too personal and would give away my identity, I need this bitch dead.”
The movie 'Fargo', but in real life, and in Minneapolis, using cryptocurrency and the dark web, and a far less gruesome ending.
Your love of Bed Bath & Beyond coupons could be killing the retailer
“I don’t come here very often,” said Zoe French, 51, who works nearby and was after laundry detergent. “Once a year, maybe I’ll use a coupon if I need to buy something big.”
That, analysts said, is crisis for the beleaguered chain: shoppers who balk at the thought of buying something at Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon.
We shop at BB&B maybe once or twice a year? And we've hoarded way more coupons than I guarantee we'll ever use.