Today we check out the Olsen Twins in Vogue, a new scary dating site, and the best vintage styled blogs on the web. Plus, Charlie Sheen may get his job at CBS back, young people apparently hate soup, and the “Therapy Dog” you can check out at the Yale Law School Library.
1. Libya. The four freed NYT Journalists give their accounts of their captivity:[NYT]
Levent Sahinkaya, center, the Turkish ambassador to Libya, at the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, with the four freed New York Times journalists: from left, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario and Anthony Shadid.
War in Libya, Why we had no choice. [Atlantic]
2. A comprehensive NYC based guide to helping out Japan. [VF]
3. The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported. And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript. [Neiman]
@NYTimes 2010 net income was $109 million. Top 2 executives earned $9.4 million. Large %, no?” [@KBAnderson]
4. Today, the NYPost just doing what they do best, stealing news stories:
@Lock: RT @joecoscarelli NYPost not only stole ‘hipster ambiance’ story from @Eater, but didn’t bother to change 1st example http://bit.ly/hhClTl
5. Seven minimalistic posters representing various mental disorders. [22words]
6. Scary new dating site: The Real World. Ha. This is actually really funny. [WSJ]
7. 4sqtransit is a simple service that delivers real-time public transit information to your phone whenever you check in near a transit stop on Foursquare. When 4sqtransit sees that you’ve checked in near a transit stop, it will send you a text message with live schedule information for that location. cool! [4sq]
8. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Photographed for the April Issue of Vogue by Bruce Weber. Read the article here: [Vogue]
9. My Life Without a Cell Phone, An Amazing Tale of Survival” over at [TheAwl]
10. CBS is reportedly offering Charlie Sheen his job back. Money Matters. [NYP]
11. Report: iPhone 5 Enters Limited Production, On Track For Summer Release. [CultureofMac]
12. Young people hate soup. [BI]
13. We live in the future. Doctors at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto, Canada have taken interactive gaming to the next level when they hooked up a Kinect console to their medical imaging computer. Now when in the operating room, doctors can have direct access to MRI scans, without having to disinfect, leave the operating room, consult the scans, and then scrub back in. [PSFK]
14. 1 in 3 children in our country are overweight, and parenting an overweight child can be difficult. Today the Washington Post examines the do’s and don’ts. [WaPo]
15. Arianna Huffington snags another NY Times writer. Maura Egan will be the third NYT’s writer to join the HuffPo. [WWD]
16. How to feed 9 billion people by 2050. [Atlantic]
17. Not Cool: Alantic Oil Spill: 20,000 Endangered Penguins Coated In Crude On Tristan Da Cunha Islands. [HuffPo]
18. Yale Law School, renowned for competitiveness and its Supreme Court justices, is embarking on a pilot program next week in which students can check out a “therapy dog” named Monty along with the library’s collection of more than one million books. They should borrow Stanley! [NYT]
19. Boys Slightly Less Stupid Than Previously Suspected. “Although boys’ and girls’ brains show differences around age 10, during puberty key parts of their brains become more similar, according to recent government research. And, rather than growing more slowly, boys’ brains instead are simply developing differently.” [WSJ via TheAwl]
20. Check out the trailer for Lifetime’s movie called William & Kate set to premiere on April 29th. And then go read Chiara Atik’s thoughts on the film: [HowAboutWe]
21. AT&T is going to be offering a smart phone with a 3-D screen and camera. Woah technology. [LAT]
22. In China, marinating your eggs in human urine is totally the rage. [BoingBoing]
23. A guide to the best vintage styled blogs. [Flavorwire]
24. 4 reasons today’s tech scene differs from the ’90s bubble. Everything old is new again. [Mashable]
25. 18-year old Keithroy Yearwood, famous B.I.G. baby identified 17 years later. The former baby model who graces the cover of Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die has finally come forward to identity himself. 18-year-old Bronx-native Keithroy Yearwood told the New York Daily News that his family received $150 for a two-hour session that landed him on the cover of Biggie’s debut album.
26. Also, go check out this photo of Kurt Cobain at age 3. [NedHepburn]
27. Finally, in case you missed the shout out that Conan O’Brien did on last night’s show to my business partner, Cameron Winklevoss, watch it below!
Well, that’s all for me today. Do you have something to include in tomorrow’s reading list? Email me: Rachelle@guestofaguest.com!
