Today we take a look at Japan, 2 weeks later. We look into the bedrooms of children from around the world, and get excited about a new Maurice Sendak book about a pig . Plus, I’m really excited to see “The Book of Mormon” on Brodway. Also, when does it pay off to be a slacker?
1. Japan Earthquake, 2 weeks later. [TheAtlantic]
A mere six days after repair work began on an earthquake-demolished section of the Great Kanto Highway in Naka the road was ready to be reopened. [Tumblr]
- The Tokyo Electric Power Company has released new images from the interior of Fukushima’s reactor 3, as well as video of emergency personnel frantically working inside the plant. [Gizmodo]
2. James Mollison’s book of photographs of children from around the world and their bedrooms looks amazing. Mollison hopes his photographs will encourage children to think about inequality. [Telegraph]
3. Elizabeth Taylor was 15 minutes late to her own funeral, a request she had outlined in her will. Taylor left behind a fortune that is estimated near $600 million, much of which is expected to go to her AIDS charity. She was buried near her close friend Michael Jackson at Forest Lawn cemetery, just outside of Los Angeles. [NYP]
4. The reviews for “The Book of Mormon” are pretty amazing. Created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the guys behind “South Park,” it seems like the Tony race is over before it really began. [PP]
5. Wallpaper is having a comeback. [Philly]
6. Quantum Physics explanation for smell gains traction. I love waking up and finding an article about quantum physics in my twitter feed! [BBC]
7. Really exciting news: Maurice Sendak, the 82 year-old children’s-book author of “Where the Wild Things Are,” among others, is publishing a new book “Bumble-Ardy” in the fall, about a pig that loves to party.
Mr. Sendak, speaking by phone from his home in Connecticut, said he had been unable to forget Bumble-Ardy. “He was funny. He was robust. He was sly. He was a sneak. He was all the things I like,” Mr. Sendak said. [WSJ]
8. GE reported worldwide profits of $14.2-billion but owes the IRS zero. [NYT]
9. Manhattan’s mini storage ads are known to take a unique angle. Check out the ones from their Spring ’11 campaign which some are finding offensive. [Refinery29]
10. Groupon may seem like a highly inflated value sort of company, but they did $103 million in revenue in February alone this year! [TC]
11. Religious people tend to be fatter than non-religious ones. [LAT] Also, religion may be heading toward extinction in many western countries. [TIME]
12. After spending the afternoon with the Google offices, Lady Gaga headed over to Twitter land to get her geek on with more nerds in San Fran. [gagadaily]
13. Lindsay Lohan is dropping her last name and going to be going by just “Lindsay” from now on. Also, her, her mom Tina, and sister Ali will all be legally changing their last names to “Sullivan,” Tina’s maiden name. [PopEater]
14. The $1,000 dog house by Moss is pretty minimal considering the cost. [Moss]
15. What no one seems to understand about Color’s $41 million investment round. Henry Blodget investigates. [BI]
16. Woah this actually works. “Take the last two digits of the year you were born. Now add the age you will be this year- the result 111 for everyone. What does it mean?” [@malsirrah]
17. Pick your blogger. Ha. [6H057.NET]
18. The best karaoke bars in NYC. [Refinery29]
19. Portrait of a lady: Ms. Mary Higgins Clark at her home in Saddle River, N.J. At 83, she still writes at least one book a year. I really liked this profile on the best selling author in the [WSJ]
20. Kurt Andersen sat down with Catherine Deneuve, the queen of French cinema for a tasty interview for [Studio360]
21. Note: do not let your interns run your company twitter account. The intern that runs the Marc Jacobs twitter account went crazy last night. [DailyTruffle]
22. The record companies suing Limewire were asked to estimate the damages that should be paid by the file-sharing service. Their estimate? $400 Billion on the low end, and at the high end — $75 trillion dollars. That’s more than the GDP of the entire world. The judge deemed this “absurd.” [TC]
23. Nine things successful people do differently. [HuffPo]
24. Sheep Dog. A sheep in China has allegedly given birth to a rather unusual offspring with the body of a lamb, but the head of a dog. [TDW]
25. Nate Silver’s interesting take on the NY Times paywall. [NYT]
26. Study finds that, in stressful situations, slackers may actually perform better than type-A multitasker. [WSJ]
27. Aaron Sorkin was on last night’s 30 Rock. Go behind the scenes with him and Tina Fey:
Go read the transcript of the scene here: [ION]
28. The discovery of ancient stone tools at an archaeological dig in Texas could push back the presence of humans in North America, perhaps by as much as 2,500 years. [WSJ]
29. Will leave you with this New York Magazine cover: The Lower East Side: There Goes the Neighborhood, by Craig Unger, from May 28, 1984. [Soup]
Well, that’s all for me today. Do you have something to include in Monday’s Reading List? Email me: Rachelle@guestofaguest.com!
