“I’m 25 years old, looking for a boyfriend…. I want you to have an apartment and a car…. The apartment has to be built after 2000 and the car has to be better than a minivan” 

chirp:

I’ve read this speech probably a million times, and I will listen to it a million times more.

I don’t remember how many friends I’ve told you need to read this speech. Now you can listen to it, partly, if you don’t buy it.

In a test to determine whether playing computer games could be a sport, academics compared professional gamers and professional athletes. They found that one group doesn’t live with their mothers.

Alisson Chornak is one of many model scouts who prowl southern rural brazillian schools looking for the next Gisele Bundchen. She was discovered she was 13, while Alessandra Ambrosio was 12 when she was found. Is this the dream job for pedophiles?

The video is a great piece on the state of North Korean life today, although when you watch it, it may seem like we are existing in wholly different eras.

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com

I like this headline.

Incredible Nike advertisement by Alejandro González Iñárritu that features cameos by people whose names would spoil how incredible this advertisement is.

You would think that this is a collection of David Foster Wallace’s thoughts on living and life. It is not. I found this little book on the counter at Moe’s Books and opened it up to find one essay, the transcript of his commencement speech at Kenyon College. Wallace’s one speech has been segmented, cut up, such that it fills the 144 pages of a hardcover book that sells for $14.99. This means that every few sentences, sometimes every sentence, has its own page, and they’re centered and framed like notes of chicken soup inspiration. To me it’s a disappointment to see such a cash grab by his estate to market this to graduating students. Wallace did not orate as a series of quotes, in a series of pauses, as “some thoughts” to be read here and there. This was Wallace’s heartfelt argument on how to live, and how do we choose how to live, spilled in long form, and should be read as such. David Foster Wallace’s insightful speech has been republished, edited, at WSJ, and the full version can be found at moreintelligentlife.