This 17-year-old girl beat out 80 male programmers to invent an app so that Twitter will never spoil Game of Thrones ever again (it lets you block out key characters and phrases.)
"We’re as sick as our secrets and the shame keeps us in isolation. And when we find that shared experience, we gather our strength and our hope. So for example, I’m a three-time survivor of rape, and about that I have no shame, because it was never my shame to begin with—it was the perpetrator’s shame. And only when I was a grown empowered adult and had healthy boundaries and had the opportunity to do helpful work on that trauma was I able to say, okay, that perpetrator was shameless, and put their shame on me. Now I gave that shame back, and it’s my job to break my isolation and talk with other girls and other women."
— Ashley Judd, possible Kentucky Senate candidate, opened up about sexual assault in a speech in DC today. (via motherjones)
This gif is on my dashboard four times in a row and who am I to break that chain.
THE KISS IN THE BACKGROUND OH MY GAWWWWW
-AF
(Source: lipgallagher)
Chambaland - “Never Want You Back” (Taylor Swift vs. Jackson 5)
Rugby’s Brushed Shetlands
Ralph Lauren announced last week that they plan to discontinue Rugby after this season. I admit many of Rugby’s offerings were a bit overstylized for my taste, but one thing I’ll miss is their affordable brushed Shetland sweaters. The original brushed Shetlands were invented by Irving Press of J. Press fame. At the time, Mr. Press had a close relationship with the principal of Drumohr, one of the more renowned knitwear manufacturers in Scotland, and together, they devised a way to make J. Press’ Shetlands more distinctive by brushing them until they achieved the kind of slightly hairy look you see above. Charming, comfortable, and infinitely stylish, these are wonderful sweaters to wear on lazy days when you don’t want to iron a shirt and put on a necktie.
Rugby’s brushed Shetlands retail for about $100, which isn’t exactly “cheap.” They do, however, often go on sale. In fact, right now they’re $70, with an additional 20% off if you use the check out code INSIDERFALL (the sale ends today). They fit slim, though not enough to size up, and feature sueded leather elbow patches. I haven’t tried myself, but I imagine you can take those patches off with a seam ripper if they’re not to your liking.
Other brushed Shetlands on the market include, of course, J. Press’ original, which is made a bit nicer and denser than Rugby’s. It retails for considerably more at $195, but sometimes you can catch them off-season for about $108. Interestingly, they have some Fair Isle versions in addition to their solids this season. For other sources still, there’s Edifice at Present London and Drake’s. If you’re willing to order from Japan, there are also sellers stocking Peter Blance and John Tulloch. You may need to use a Japanese proxy for those, however.
Still, as you can see, while all these are nice, none of them are as affordable as the ~$50 version from Rugby. I’ve always thought these were a nice way for people to score a charming sweater without breaking the bank. They will be missed.
(Photos by Billax)
This time next week, the first polls will start closing in this election. If your friends might not have the info they need to vote, now’s the time to nudge them.
(via hellogiggles)
xfistsx presents: future ex-boyfriend, Vol. 3
We at xfistsx are proud to present a very special election themed installment in our semi-regular feature entitled “future ex-boyfriend”, wherein we select a potential mate and then proceed to envision the entire course of our relationship. While Joe Biden is certainly a worthy contender for the title, we found he was way too similar to
Jesse PinkmanTim Allen. We were close to giving up hope, but then just last night Jeremy Epstein came into our lives.
Jeremy Epstein is a 20 year old college student who, until last night, existed in relative obscurity. However, after asking the first question at last night’s town hall-style presidential debate, he is at the forefront of the political arena. We at xfistsx care about any and all political matters (“Free Pussy Riot”; “Keep Your Rosaries Off Our Ovaries”, etc.), and are particularly invested in this year’s scarily close election, so it’s only natural that we gravitated toward Jeremy at this time.
Designing the SkyMall Logo…
(or: a conversation I have with myself every time I fly for the entire flight)
Okay, so let’s make it a simple wordmark, but stacked on itself. Okay, cool — so we should probably do it all uppercase if we’re stacking it with some white space between th—… Oh, okay, you want it stacked directly on… ok. But if we do that, it might look a bit weird. What? You’re sure you also want it lowercase? Because the lower-case ‘y’ has a descender that will—… Just make the ‘Y’ capital? Really, because, then you, uh, have a capital ‘S’ and ‘Y’ but the ‘k’ is lowercase which—… No one will notice? Okay. The thing is now the bottom of the Y is sorta landing on top of the two ‘l’s in Mall. Just move the ‘l’s over to the right? Alright, the thing is, that uh sort of leaves the ‘a’ just sitting there alone with really weird loose kerning? It’s fine? And you’re sure it doesn’t bother you how the ‘S’ sorta merges with one side of the ‘M’ making it into a vertical ligature, but the ‘k’ sorta checkerboards against the other side of the ‘M’? No?
Alright, so you’re good with this?
Great!
OH THIS THIS THIS
