Why this Seattle geek finally gave up and bought a car four years after going ‘full Uber’ [Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire]
“… the golden era of massively-subsidized car sharing is coming to a close.”
Fractured America is uniting in its hatred of expatriate Californians [Derek Thompson/The Atlantic]
Sammy is having a moment with my sweaty exercise T-shirt.
Jim Whitehurst Becomes President of IBM. Why? He gets Culture. [Jono Bacon/Forbes]
IBM’s New CEO Is Mastermind Behind Cloud Strategy for Growth [Olivia Carville/Bloomberg]
Why Iowa? [Dan Zak/The Washington Post]
I have been to Iowa more than once, and liked it.
South Carolina seeks volunteer pig cuddlers [CNN]
I foresee a career change.
Headline of the week: As a 28-Year-Old Latino, I’m Shocked My New Novel, Memoirs of a Middle-Aged White Lady, Has Been So Poorly Received [McSweeney’s Internet Tendency]
An intriguing list of “little-known but obvious facts”.
The word “helicopter” has two components. They aren’t “heli” and “copter”. They are “helico” and “pter”. “Helico” (helix) and “pter” (wing, like with “pterodactyl”)…
u/TikiTC asked on r/askreddit: “What’s a little-known but obvious fact that will immediately make all of us feel stupid?” Many of the 20,000+ replies are funny, useful, and fascinating
[Mark Frauenfelder/Boing Boing]