Newmark's Door

Pictures here. Numbers used in the ranking here. (The numbers indicate that Hong Kong's lead is huge.)_

Pharmacy Technician is good. 

The only article you need to read before today's big game. Entertaining and with a nice shoutout to German's amazing ability to form compound nouns. 

No surprise: chicks dig guitar guys. 

Stevie Wonder, June 1962, live. What joy sounds like.

From McSweeney's.

Sure, we’ve got dozens of astronauts, physicists, and demolitions experts. I’ll be damned if we didn’t try to train our best men for this mission. But just because they can fly a shuttle and understand higher-level astrophysics doesn’t mean they can execute a unique mission like this. Anyone can learn how to land a spacecraft on a rocky asteroid flying through space at twelve miles per second. I don’t need some pencilneck with four Ph.D’s, one-thousand hours of simulator time, and the ability to operate a robot crane in low-Earth orbit. I need someone with four years of broad-but-humanities-focused studies, three subsequent years in temp jobs, and the ability to reason across multiple areas of study. I need someone who can read The Bell Jar and make strong observations about its representations of mental health and the repression of women. Sure, you’ve never even flown a plane before, but with only ten days until the asteroid hits, there’s no one better to nuke an asteroid.

"Armchair traveling" is the type of traveling I like most. 

"31 Charts That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity".

"5 Signs That We Haven’t Lost America Yet".

"I'm an embarrassingly slow driver, but I was lucky enough to be offered the chance to take part in a two-day race driving class at the Performance Driving Center at Sonoma Raceway and, while it didn't turn me into Mario Andretti, I'd like to pass on some of what I learned to any other rank but hopeful amateurs."

"Ridiculous" is a bit strong. Well, one is. (You'll know it when you see it.)