This is quite bittersweet; I have a close family member who was part of the first 25 employees of both JetBlue and Virgin America (JetBlue was nearly Virgin America but Branson wasn’t allowed to have the size stake he wanted) and hired most of their early employees. When i saw in the news that they were ranked one and…

Having had relatives who passed through the harrowing periods of segregation, they would argue that some things have changed (no segregated movie theaters, black president) but other things haven’t (police being often as much as threat as a help, economics that have black people and poor people conflated). It helps if…

I feel this tremendous urge for you to search the web for images for the song “Strange Fruit” sung by Billy Holliday or to search the terms “black” and “lynching”... or maybe look up Emmett Till?

Sorry, i had to step away for a family matter... I did some research and found the opposite of what you wrote: there is a site called lookatthestars.org which documents how much and to what charities celebrities give time and money to. Patricia Arquette ranked relatively low compared to a random black counterpart such…

I’m not sure anyone was asking for footnotes about Susan B. Anthony or to preface with an apology; I think it is more think carefully before you ask a group i.e... black men and women to repay some debt of support when one hasn’t really historically been much of an ally.... Hopefully, the spectacle of The Donald has…

I think for me it seemed like she was a) very tired and didn’t get time to organize her thoughts but it would have been nice if she had clarified that that both black men and women uniformly get paid less than white women and that white women were historically not the strongest of allies especially in terms of black…

I have this quirky collection of autographs such as Kate Bush and Allison Moyet, Ray Bradbury and Frank Herbert, and a big group when I tried to collect autographs from every major Star Wars actor though I missed Harrison Ford (too scared) and Alec Guinness (really too scared). The fun was was Carrie Fisher who had…

When I took my oral exam, a member of the committee’s wife was involved in studying this... definitely a founder effect.

The problem is that if you have characters in a movie, the default is to make them white because black people can only play roles that are designed to be obviously black... and the “best” people are those who reinforce those rules. Can you imagine Gravity with Viola Davis rather than Sandra Bullock; that would be like…

In a healthy person, the immune system is always on at some level. It is not showering and hand sanitizer that people worry about but a specific group of antibacterial agents such as riclosan, trichlosan, and chloroylelol that people worry about. The problem with those rare studies that show indigenous people with low…

Google Lena Horne, Bo Derek... is there a critical number of people commenting on this that would pass your threshold of public opinion?

Google Zendaya...

The analogy I would make is that it is a design concept like those automakers who make concept cars or architects who make models and sketches of buildings that they have no formal commission for. Often some element like the fabric pattern might filter down into a more conventional line but its point is to spark…

I want to throw in Steven Smith Teamaker...it is run by the guy behind Tazo who had a parting of the ways with Starbucks about their teas. His teas are flavorful, high quality, and not too expensive...

I want to throw in Steven Smith Teamaker...it is run by the guy behind Tazo who had a parting of the ways with…

There better not be a single unpaid intern working in the Gawker network...

I do want to mention that it is really cool that you discuss fonts here; they are an element of design and technology which add so much to the experience that we have with our devices, or in this case, places.

You might be right; I have both fonts...

I think the Berkeley font is really EagleFeather by David Siegel which is based a Frank Lloyd Wright font influenced by Rennie Macintosh

I like to read this as: As vapid as these presenters are, is it NOW verboten to compliment someone on their pigmentation? I'm just trying to keep up... As opposed to when it was required.

As someone who is deathly allergic to spiders (I get a cell-mediated immune response to their bites and even get welts when web touches my skin), is there anyway for us to coexist in the same house?