All Stories published by The Awl on September 29, 2011

Slate is Free from Its Cruel Master!

Profound congratulations to Slate for finally stabbing to death its creaky, ancient, and very angry CMS. Called “Gutenberg,” it was nearly as old as its namesake. The first rule of Media Club is: never build your own CMS. Someone will build it for you. Speaking of…


Amazon Auto-Wires New E-Books of Neal Stephenson’s “Reamde”

After pulling Neal Stephenson’s ebook of Reamde off Amazon on Tuesday, early this morning, Amazon emailed to tell readers they could replace their copy. “The version you received had Missing Content that have been corrected,”…


Premium Cable Nudity: Who’s Nudest Fastest?

“On average, someone will be naked in the first episode of a premium cable drama in eighteen minutes and 36 seconds. To be fair, the king of the premium cable pack, HBO, actually shows more restraint than the other networks: On average, it takes 23…


Study: People Get Tired During The Day

It turns out that people feel down as the day wears on: “Sociologists at Cornell University analyzed a half billion Twitter updates from around the world for positive and negative feelings. They found that regardless of country and culture, Twitter users’ moods…


Your Life Can Seem Ever More Mundane

@CathyHorynNYT
Cathy Horyn Benches cracking at Balenciaga as guests leap up. A second one just carted off. Now a third broke and nervous buzz starts, as in “Me next?”
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