Link roundup

1. "10 years ago, in 2006, there was only FF.net, and it was there that a fan fiction legend was born: Tara Gilesbie (aka XXXbloodyrists666XXX) published the first chapter of My Immortal"

a multi-chaptered Harry Potter story about a young American Hogwarts student called Ebony, a leather-clad, eyelinered “goffik” who has a relationship with Draco Malfoy and later is sent back in time to curb Voldemort’s murderous urges with the love of a goff woman.

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“Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie.”

2. "Amar'e Stoudemire's Picks"

"I find it unique and interesting that the artist repurposed a plate and turned it into a work of art."

3. "We wrongly think things that are different are impossible."

Something that is off-the-charts entertaining is hard to stop.

Link roundup

1. "The Magic Bullet Infomercial Is Actually About Swinging"

Listen to Mimi at the 5:40 mark. This is the key.

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“I’ve got some grilled chicken here,” she says, voice thick with meaning and perhaps more than a little embarrassment, “from last night’s barbecue.” Her voice drops at least half an octave on “last night,” and she gives a rueful little chuckle on the tail end of “barbecue.” It’s easy to miss; it’s an almost imperceptible moment, but it’s also a dead giveaway.

2. "Miami Heat player Amar’e Stoudemire [wants to] connect the stars of sport with the art community"

“I went to a lot of fairs and I saw a lot of art,” Stoudemire says. “But that one was something that I wanted to add to the Melech Collection.”

That’s what he calls his personal art collection, after the Hebrew word for “King.”

3. "The researchers created 20 identical Airbnb profiles with 20 different names...They found that 'requests from guests with distinctively African-American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively White names.'"

4. Get 25% off a book at at Amazon with the code 25OFFBOOK. Here's the books I recommended earlier this month.