September 30, 2013: Morning
- Gun ownership among women has doubled in the past year; advocacy groups teach defense-based target practice and firearm safety.
- See also: A childhood ban on toy guns didn’t erase death from a group of friends, but it changed their view of mortality.
- Running away to China to learn kung fu.
- How Ramona Pierson became a tech CEO, after being hit by a car and spending a decade blind.
- Change.org isn't just an idealistic petition-gathering nonprofit, but a player in the Big Data game.
- Bertolli pounces on Barilla's self-inflicted negative PR with a pro-LGBT commercial.
- I learned that the house I grew up in had been razed to the ground. This was no ordinary house, certainly not to me.
- Instagram's process of speeding up the aging process would have made it a natural fit in 2000's Memento.
- List of Hitchcock's cameo appearances in his movies.
- A Faustian reading of Breaking Bad.
- If you never got into Breaking Bad and want to get hooked: Just watch season 1, episode 6—aka Tuco's first episode.
- Why we watch stressful TV.
- Times New Roman is a font that gets the job done, though it also shows the path of least resistance.
- Now viewed as lowbrow, ghost fiction was once the domain of eminent writers from Maugham to Cheever.
- Editor Ronald Latimer published some of the biggest voices of his time, but his own life was a shadowy mystery.