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13 Apr 00:57

100 Chrome Extensions That You Should Install

by Trevor Dobrygoski


We have collected 100 awesome and useful Google Chrome extensions into this one big list that is easy to digest because they’re all categorized! By tweaking you Google Chrome, it can make your browser much more productive and interesting. Enjoy!

Business Tools

1. Gmail Offline

Gmail Offline is one of the most useful tools I have downloaded. Many times emails come in faster than I can reply to them, but disconnecting from the internet while I reply to what is currently in my inbox can be a big help. Additionally, when you are not connected, you will use less battery power.

gmail offline

2. Google Calendar

Google Calendar is an app that gives you fast access to your Google Calendar. Aside from the direct link to your main calendar, there is also the option to see and manage your calendar while offline. This is very useful for the same same reasons as the above Gmail Offline app.

google calendar

3. Smartr Inbox for Gmail

Smartr Inbox for Gmail is a great extension for your Google Chrome browser. You will be able to see the social accounts for your contacts, which is a great way to better understand clients and/or keep up with family and friends, all from your Gmail inbox.

Smartr Inbox for Gmail

4. Google Tasks (by Google)

If you weren’t aware, Google has a Tasks app, and it’s already part of your Gmail and Google Calendar. While it is pretty bare-bones, it can still be useful. Using the Google Tasks (by Google) extension will make Google Tasks more accessible and therefore more effective.

my to do list

5. Always Clear Downloads

Always Clear Downloads is a Google Chrome extension made to solve the problem of that ugly download bar that appears at the bottom of your Chrome browser window after you download any type of file. This will save you task of clicking on the close “X” button every time you download something.

always clear download

6. Grammarly Lite

Grammarly Lite is a great spell-checker for your browser window. It is different from most others because it will check your grammar as well as your spelling. If you dislike  people who incorrectly place the wrong type of word in the wrong part of a sentence, Grammarly will help you avoid becoming one of them.

spellchecker

7. KeyRocket for Gmail

KeyRocket for Gmail is a somewhat educational tool: while you are using Gmail, KeyRocket helps you learn the keyboard shortcuts. Knowing what will Archive an email vs. Deleting it will help you get through your inbox a lot more quickly, and the faster you get through all of your emails, the more likely you are to keep your message count low—maybe even zero.

keyrocket

8. PanicButton

PanicButton lets you hide all of your windows and tabs at once and opens a preset window—some people refer to this as a “boss” button. You can even password-protect the button so they can’t restore the tabs without it. If the button is too obvious, a keyboard shortcut can be used instead.

click to hide your tabs

9. Awesome New Tab Page

The Awesome New Tab Page is a great way to create a useful start page for your Google Chrome browser: when you create a new page or tab, this window will open up. There are a lot of default tiles to add as well as other extensions to install, adding to the awesomeness of the new tab page.

awesome new tab page

10. Powerbot for Gmail

Powerbot for Gmail ties your two most used apps—Gmail and Evernote—together for one big productivity party. What is really cool here is not needing to toggle between two apps just to create a new note. Everything can be added to the note just as if you were in Evernote; even the email attachments.

send to evernote

Search Tools

11. Search by Image (by Google)

Search by Image (by Google) is a brilliant little extension that lets you search the web using an image instead of words as the search term. This is handy if you are looking for the original version of an image, or even a modified version thereof. You can right-click on an image on a webpage and then search Google for similar images.

Search by Image (by Google)

12. Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on

When you are browsing the web, you are hard-pressed to come across a site not using Google Analyitcs. These sites are tracking what you are doing: when you are clicking around the site, Google Analyitcs is watching what you are doing, but Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on helps you to avoid being tracked.

Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on

13. Highlight to Search

When you are on the web a lot, you are sure to come across something you want to search for more information about, and Highlight to Search makes this easier. Simply highlight the words you’d like to search for, and click the magnifying glass for a new tab with a search in it.

Highlight to Search

14. Google Quick Scroll

Google Quick Scroll is another great way to make your searches faster. When you click on a link in the search results, you are taken directly to the spot on the page where the search term is mentioned, which saves you from scanning the page as you look for the information you want.

Google Quick Scroll

15. Centered Google Results

Centered Google Results is a must-have for users with large monitors. Normally the Google search results are off to the left side, but this Google Chrome extension is a simple fix to place the search results in the center of your screen.

Centered Google Results

16. Google Search 360

Google used to have a feature called Wonder Wheel in their search options to help you find similar search terms. This was great for people like bloggers or internet marketers, and Google Search 360 is a lot like Wonder Wheel. Add a search term and see similar terms, or keep narrowing down the terms to get more niche results.

Google Search 360

17. Personal Blocklist (by Google)

Personal Blocklist (by Google) is a pretty cool extension that lets you block certain URLs from your searches. This is really helpful if you are doing a lot of searching and want to eliminate certain sites like Wikipedia from your search.

Personal Blocklist (by Google)

18. Speak to Search

Speak to Search lets you use your voice to search Google. If you have an Android phone and use Google Now or other voice commands, you know how useful this is.

Speak to Search

19. DuckDuckGo for Chrome

DuckDuckGo for Chrome lets you search without being tracked. Instead of going to a completely different site to search, you can add this extension and use the DuckDuckGo icon. You will see the results at the top of the normal Google Search page.

DuckDuckGo for Chrome

20. Incognito Search

When you are reading something on a page, you can highlight the term and select Incognito Search to look for the query in a non-tracked window. This will keep it out of your search history too.

Incognito Search

Entertainment

21. Magic Actions for YouTube

Magic Actions for YouTube is a must-have for avid YouTube video watchers. It adds essential features like Cinema view and easier sharing options, and you will wonder how you ever lived without them.

Magic Actions for YouTube

22. Auto HD For YouTube

When watching videos, the usual default is to judge the connection and play it back at the best possible quality. Auto HD For YouTube will automatically play the video back in HD every time and in wide screen mode. If you have a slower connection, this might not work well for you.

Auto HD For YouTube

23. Last.fm Scrobbler

Last.fm is a super popular web app for music lovers. When you listen to something you can scrobble it which means the song is logged and shared with followers. Last.fm Scrobbler is an extension to help this process when you are listening songs on sites like YouTube.

Last.fm Scrobbler

24. CanIStreamIt Search

When you think of a show or movie you’d like to watch, an easy way to find out if you can stream it and from where is using the CanIStreamIt Search Google Chrome extension. Find out if you need to watch it on Amazon or if Netflix is streaming it or somewhere you didn’t think to check.

CanIStreamIt Search

25. Grooveshark Mediakeys Reloaded

Grooveshark is a web app letting you listen to a lot of new music. With Grooveshark Mediakeys Reloaded, you can control the track as you listen to it using keyboard shortcuts making it easier to pause, advance to the next track and so on.

Grooveshark Mediakeys Reloaded

26. XKCD Alt Text

Sometimes, when reading the comic strip XKCD, it can be a little hard to read the text. XKCD Alt Text makes it easier to read by adding the text outside the strip.

XKCD Alt Text

27. My Watch Later Link for Youtube

Have you added videos to your YouTube Quick list and then forgotten about them? Well, My Watch Later Link for Youtube puts a link right next to the search bar so you can easily click it to watch saved videos.

My Watch Later Link for Youtube

28. Cloud Downloader

SoundCloud is a great app for finding new music, and Cloud Downloader is an extension that helps you download the new music you find so you can listen to it later. This is all done right from your browser instead of through the site.

Cloud Downloader

29. Best Games,Just For You

Do you like to play games? Best Games,Just For You will help you find one to keep you busy. You will have access to about 3500 different games you can play right from your browser—just filter through the game categories to find the perfect time-waster.

Best Games,Just For You

30. Classic Games

When you are in the mood to play a classic arcade game, the Classic Games gives access to a lot of the popular flash-style games you might like. One I like to play is the Apple Shooter—some of the mishaps are hilarious.

Classic Games

 

Accessibility

31. Speed Dial

Some of the browsers out there like Opera have a great New Tab Page with Speed Dials. Essentially, this is a page with the logos for a lot of your most-accessed bookmarks. Speed Dial brings this feature to Google Chrome.

Speed Dial

32. Stealthy

Do you live in a country where certain sites are blocked, like some YouTube videos in Germany? Stealthy will help those of you who have content blocked be able to view those sites without the restrictions. This is very useful for international travelers who might not be used to the restrictions.

Stealthy

33. Tree Style Tabs (Beta)

When you have a lot of tabs open, finding the one with the right page can be a challenge. To solve this, Tree Style Tabs list all of the title information for each tab in a drop-down tree-style menu, making it a lot easier to find the right page quickly.

Tree Style Tabs

34. FVD Speed Dial

FVD Speed Dial is similar to the other Speed Dial extension in this list with more of a 3D wall Safari browser look to it. See a cached view of the page as the icon for a really good-looking new tab page.

FVD Speed Dial

35. Hacker Vision

Hacker Vision will invert the most of whats on your screen to a black background, which is easier on the eyes than having a white background. I wasn’t a believer of this until I tried it for an afternoon, and was really surprised at how much it helped.

Hacker Vision

36. Turn Off the Lights

Watching a video on your screen is tricky; some videos are all grainy if you expand them to fit the screen, while if you watch them in a smaller mode, you can see all the other stuff on your desktop. Turn Off the Lights will dim the other things in the background so you can focus on the video.

Turn Off the Lights

37. Read&Write for Google Docs

Read&Write for Google Docs is a great tool for anyone trying to learn the English language. If you are struggling to read or understand a word, you can use the built-in dictionaries or have Google Docs read you the sentence.

Read&Write for Google Docs

38. Categorizer

Your browser history is not all that easy to manage, so Categorizer aims to help solve this problem by helping you categorize the sites you visit often. From the right-click menu, you can add a site to a category for later. It’s like bookmarking—just a little different.

Categorizer

39. ViewMyBrowser

ViewMyBrowser is a really simple way for you to share your screen with someone else. This is ideal for helping out someone who might be having computer troubles or if you are teaching someone something from a remote location.

ViewMyBrowser screensharing

40. Fine Link Selector

If you have ever tried to copy a portion of a link, you know you will usually click on the link instead. Fine Link Selector will let you copy just the portion of the link you want instead of copying the whole thing and deleting what you don’t need.

Fine Link Selector

Lifestyle

41. Add to Amazon Wish List

When you are browsing around the web, the Add to Amazon Wish List button makes it easy to save an item to your Wish List for later purchase. No need to head over to Amazon, find the item, and save it anymore.

Add to Amazon Wish List

42. Eat24

Eat24 helps you feed your craving without leaving your browser. With restaurants in over 750 cities, you can order food and have it delivered right to your door. You can also keep track of your favorites so you can order “the usual” in future.

Eat24

43. Mini Maps

When you are on the web and need to find a location and don’t want to fire up Google Maps, you can use Mini Maps. It offers almost all of the basic mapping options you will need.

Mini Maps

44. Refresh Monkey

There are some cases where you need the page to refresh at set intervals, like when you are watching an auction. This is where Refresh Monkey comes in handy: you can set the intervals and choose whether you want one page pr all of the pages to refresh.

Refresh Monkey

45. Kicktraq

Have you supported a startup on KickStart? If so, you know it isn’t always too easy to track the progress. Kicktraq makes the process less painful. See how many backers the project has, the amount raised, and other useful information.

Kicktraq

46. Honey

Shopping online is always better when you find a deal. Honey will help you find discount codes for the sites you are shopping on. Not only will it find the codes, but it will try them for you to get the ones that work and give you the best deal.

Honey

47. Stipple

If you run a website or like to guide people into purchasing certain items, Stipple will let you annotate an image with links to more information about the parts of the image. You can link to any URL, not just consumer sites.

Stipple

48. Cryptagram

There are some cases where you might want to post Cryptagram will let you decode images encrypted using the Cryptagram web app. It’s great for hiding things in plain sight.

Cryptagram

49. Explain and Send Screenshots

When you need a quick way to take a screen shot and annotate it to show someone how something works, Explain and Send Screenshots will be just what you’re looking for. Add text, arrows and other annotations to your screen captures and copy and paste them into other apps like Google Docs.

Explain and Send Screenshots

50. BBC Good Food

BBC Good Food is a great way to find new recipes right from your browser. There are over 260 different recipes that people have actually cooked and deemed worthy of putting on the site.

BBC Good Food

News & Weather

51. The Onion

For those of you who have never read or watched anything The Onion has put out, it is a really funny satirical news site and publication about current events. This extension for Chrome lets you see all of the newest hilarity right in your icon bar.

The Onion

52. RSS Feed Reader

With Google’s decision to eliminate Google Reader, RSS Feed Reader might be a good option for you to have easy access to your RSS Feeds. When you click the icon, you will see the different feeds in a drop-down and how many unread posts on each site. This is a very easy solution if you only read your RSS feeds on one computer.

RSS Feed Reader

53. Awesome Weather Widget [ANTP]

Earlier we mentioned Awesome New Tab Page. Awesome Weather Widget [ANTP] is an add-on for Awesome New Tab Page giving you a great looking weather widget. There are other great add-ons like like this in the Chrome Web Store, and usually they will have [ANTP] in the title.

Awesome Weather Widget [ANTP]

54. Feedly Plus

Feedly is another great option for a Google Reader replacement. In fact they are working on a seamless transition when Google Reader is done. The layout is more appealing for reading new articles.

Feedly Plus

55. Email this page (by Google)

There are times when you are looking at a webpage and think “Jimmy would really like this.” The Email this page (by Google) extension lets you email the contents of the page or what you highlight on the page to someone using Gmail.

Email this page (by Google)

56. Finance Toolbar

If you follow the stock market closely and like to have a ticker on your screen, Finance Toolbar gives you a spot to see all of the current happenings in an easy-to-see toolbar, which is right above your bookmark bar so it isn’t in your way.

Finance Toolbar

57. TLDR

With all of the information out there, it takes a long time to sift through it all to find something interesting to read, and sometimes you are just lured in by a crafty headline. TLDR gives you a condensed version of the article so you can see if it is indeed something you’d like to spend some time reading more of.

TLDR

58. Amazon Mini

For the Amazon obsessed, Amazon Mini will let you quickly see what the deals of the day are by clicking on the icon. If you like what you see, click on the deal—otherwise, you didn’t waste too much of your time or get too distracted on the site.

Amazon Mini

59. Knew Tab – New Tab Page

Knew Tab is a really clean and useful New Tab Page for your browser. You can see things like how many unread emails are in your Gmail inbox, what the word of the day is, or other simple things to increase the use of the page.

Knew Tab - New Tab Page

60. Rain Alarm Extension

The Rain Alarm Extension can be a good thing to have if you work in an area with no windows and you like to leave your car windows open. This will give you some warning so you can run out and shut them, or you can prepare to take a nap while listening to the spring rain.

Rain Alarm Extension

Productivity

61. New Tab Redirect!

New-Tab-Redirect-1

62. Evernote Web Clipper

Evernote Web Clipper

63. Clearly

Clearly

64. Dr. Web Anti-Virus Link Checker

Dr. Web Anti-Virus Link Checker

65. Session Buddy

SessionBuddy

66. IE Tab

IE Tab

67. PowerInbox

PowerInbox

68. Easy disposable email address

Easy disposable email address

69. Gmail Mouse Gestures

Gmail Mouse Gestures

Social & Communication

70. Shareaholic for Google Chrome

Shareaholic for Google Chrome

71. goo.gl URL Shortener

goo.gl URL Shortener

72. Photo Zoom for Facebook

Photo Zoom for Facebook

73. Google Mail Checker

Google Mail Checker

74. Rapportive

Rapportive

75. ActiveMail

ActiveMail

76. Facebook Disconnect

Facebook Disconnect

77. HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere

78. Save to Pulse

Save to Pulse

79. InboxQ

InboxQ

Utilities

80. Diigo Web Collector and Bookmarks

Diigo Web Collector

81. Ghostery

Ghostery

82. View Thru

View Thru

83. Click&Clean

Click&Clean

84. Attachments.me

Attachments.me

85. TabJump

TabJump

86. Google Translate

Google Translate

87. Tampermonkey

Tampermonkey

88. Better History

Better History

89. FastestChrome

FastestChrome

Photography

90. Pinto

Pinto

91. Screenshot to Facebook

Screenshot to Facebook

92. iSlide

iSlide

93. Download images

Download images

94. TinEye Reverse Image Search

TinEye Reverse Image Search

95. Ambient Aurea

Ambient Aurea

96. Bing wallpaper for Google homepage

Bing wallpaper for Google homepage

97. Image collector extension

Image collector extension

98. Instatabs

Instagram for Chrome Tabs

99. Insta-save

Save Images From Instagram

 

100. cats

cats

RELATED: Save 95% of Memory on Google Chrome

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12 Apr 23:46

Inform pedestrians, not drivers

by Tyler Cowen

From Sacha Kapoor and Arvind Magesan (pdf):

Most empirical studies on the role of information in markets analyze policies that reduce asymmetries in the information that market participants possess, often suggesting that the policies improve welfare. We exploit the introduction of pedestrian countdown signals – timers that indicate when traffic lights will change – to evaluate a policy that increases the information that all market participants possess. We find that although countdown signals reduce the number of pedestrians struck by automobiles, they increase the number of collisions between automobiles. We also find that countdown signals caused more collisions overall. The findings imply welfare gains can be attained by revealing the information to pedestrians and hiding it from drivers. We conclude that policies which increase asymmetries in information can improve welfare.

Hat tip goes to @m_sendhil.

12 Apr 23:35

21 Books Written by and About Women That Men Would Benefit From Reading

by Emily Temple
Albener Pessoa

I have read some but not all

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Suburban-Angst Films
The Stages of a Woman's Life, in Photos
Margaret Thatcher in Pop Culture


This week, Salon published a great interview with Meg Wolitzer (whose just-released novel The Interestings is currently being enjoyed by more than one Flavorwire staffer). "Men," she says, "with very few exceptions, won't read books about women." Though not exactly a new idea, this pronouncement gains a little force by coming hot on the heels of GQ's "The New Canon: The 21 Books from the 21st Century Every Man Should Read," which contains (you guessed it, drumroll please, etc.) three books written by women.

Though I won't disparage any of the books that made the list, I will offer my own—as an attempt to work towards ameliorating the problem laid out by Wolitzer and neatly exemplified byGQ. After all, though there are three books by women on their list, only the Munro could really be said to be primarily about them. Below are 21 books by and about women that every man should read.

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The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is essential reading no matter your gender, and this chilling depiction of a dystopian future is one of her best. In the Republic of Gilead, women's rights have been completely eradicated, and the country is ruled by a racist, homophobic, misogynist, ultra-conservative cult. As Flavorwire editor-in-chief Judy Berman quipped, "This is every woman's worst nightmare that men have never thought about." So think about it.


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Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill

Gaitskill's incredible collection is filled with women walking the borderlands—of sexual experience, of self-actualization, of family. This book digs under your skin, titillates, forces you to re-evaluate everything you ever thought about sex and love and what it means to be a person in the world. This book is terrifying.


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A Guide to Being Born, Ramona Ausubel

This one doesn't come out until May, but I'll recommend it now for good measure. Ausubel's luminous collection is organized around the origins of life—that is, the stages of love, conception, gestation, and birth—but her stories aren't as simple as all that. Men may never be able to feel the fetus in their stomach and be sure that it is a three-headed giraffe, but with this collection, they'll at least get a taste.


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Bossypants, Tina Fey

Everyone likes Tina Fey, so this shouldn't be too hard a sell. The comedian's memoir is (obviously) hilarious, but also filled with reflections on being an awkward girl, a woman in show business, and a mother. You bros will be laughing so hard that you won't even realize you're learning about what it's like to be a real-life lady.


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Speedboat, Renata Adler

In her aforementioned interview, Meg Wolitzer laments, "Something nebulous and thought-based—a book of ideas—people seem much more willing to have that from a man than a woman." Well, here is exactly that: a loose, penetrating, ruthless, glorious novel about a young journalist making her way through New York City.


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The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

The modern fairy tale, whether in retelling or creation, has become a ripe area for feminist thought, for explorations of sexuality, for wit and irony and vulgarity to seep out of what was once a prim little moralistic package. No one does this better than Angela Carter, whose rich retellings of the classic tales thrum with blood and language.


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The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner

Here's a special lure for all you male readers: girl racing motorcycles across salt flats. Past that, the book is gritty and searing and immediately essential, a subtle novel about art and love and truth and a woman on a knife's edge. Read it.


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Self-Help, Lorrie Moore

No one does wry brilliance better than Lorrie Moore. In this collection, she will teach you everything you need to know: how to talk to your mother, how to be an other woman, how to become a writer, how to live. Darkly comic and dazzling, it's a way inside the head of all the smart women you've ever known.


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Heroines, Kate Zambreno

In Heroines, Zambreno traces the impact—or rather, the exiling—of the female experience on and from literature, untangling the stories of "the mad wives of modernism" both historical and fictional, "who died in the asylum. Locked away, rendered safe. Forgotten, erased, or rewritten." Enlightening and intense, it's a must-read.


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Kindred, Octavia Butler

In this novel, a 26-year-old modern black woman is suddenly (and then repeatedly) transported back in time to a slave plantation in the antebellum South, where she is subjected to all the harshest parts of slavery as she protects the son of a slaveowner. Rarely does social criticism come with such incendiary storytelling.


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The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

All right, I'm cheating with this one a little, since it can't be properly said to be about women at all—instead, it's about a human man who travels to an alien planet populated by a race of beings who are genderless, or rather unisex, able to assume either binary gender during reproduction. The novel is beautiful and filled with timeless philosophical insights as to the nature of humanity and society—a definite classic I'm happy to make an exception for here.


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Dora: A Headcase, Lidia Yuknavitch

Yuknavitch's protagonist, the 17-year-old Ida, is a modern reincarnation of Freud's famous bisexual case study Dora, whom our most famous shrink deemed "hysterical." Ida may be a bit "hysterical" too—but she's taking back the term. She's raunchy, irreverent, filled with the desire to strip naked in the middle of "Nordfucks" or shave her head, sidekicked by a beautiful gang of weirdos. "I want to create new girl myths," Yuknavitch said of the book. I think everyone should read them.


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The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

"I hesitated a long time before writing a book on woman," De Beauvoir begins. "The subject is irritating, especially for women; and it is not new. Enough ink has flowed over the quarrel about feminism; it is now almost over: let's not talk about it anymore." This was in 1959—and the sentiment is as fresh now as it was then, just like (most of) the rest of De Beauvoir's lucid book, equal parts literary and philosophical. All else aside, it's one of the most classic feminist texts in the language. And men should read more of those.


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The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston's take on the memoir blends her personal experiences with traditional Chinese folktales, examining the Chinese-American experience as well as the female one, taking on the cultural source of oppression, something we could all do to think more about. She writes: "There is a Chinese word for the female I—which is 'slave.' Break the women with their own tongues!" So why even be a girl? "I refused to cook. When I had to wash dishes, I would crack one or two. 'Bad girl,' my mother yelled, and sometimes that made me gloat rather than cry. Isn't a bad girl almost a boy?" This is the kind of thing most boys never have to think about.


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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

It's pretty much a given that everyone should read The Bell Jar, but I'll just drive the point home again—it's a look into the conflicted mind of a tortured genius snuffed out too soon.


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The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

There is so much in this book that carries over perfectly to the modern era. Sure, maybe not the idea of tableaux vivants as party diversions, but the double standards for men and women, the vicious social games women play with each other, the perils of depending on another person—these issues are all alive and well. Plus, the novel is phenomenal. Can't go wrong.


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Excellent Women, Barbara Pym

John Updike, male of all males, called this high comedic novel "a startling reminder that solitude may be chosen and that a lively, full novel can be constructed entirely within the precincts of that regressive virtue, feminine patience." What the never-married, witty but mild-mannered Mildred Lathbury would have to say about that, I cannot say.


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The Complete Claudine, Colette

Though Colette's frisky stories aren't nearly as scandalous today as they were when they were first printed, she is still a giant of French literature, and her writing is just about as daring, sexy, gorgeous, and smart as she. As this book's introduction describes it, Colette is "[a]ccessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist -- these are the qualities of the artist and the woman." A must for any reader who sees female writing as only one thing.


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Drinking With Men, Rosie Schaap

Men love bar stories, right? Funny, smart, and insightful, Schaap's memoir as a drinking buddy will make you a better person.


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Inferno, Eileen Myles

Some men might be put off by a "poet's novel," but we bet they'll be on board once they read that killer first line: "My English professor's ass was so beautiful." Myles can be difficult, but she can also be incredible, and in this story of a young poet's self-actualization, she's both. Take note.


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Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

I maintain that Satrapi's beloved graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution is a must-read for absolutely everyone, so including it here is a no-brainer. What does it mean to be a tough little girl into rock music in a country that suppresses their women? What does it mean to be a tough little girl? Satrapi will tell you with grace, humor and delightful illustrations.

This post also appears on Flavorpill, an Atlantic partner site.
    


12 Apr 16:34

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12 Apr 15:12

Use This Chart To Find the Right Fastener for Your Next DIY Project

by Joshua Rivera
Click here to read Use This Chart To Find the Right Fastener for Your Next DIY Project Taking on a DIY project often means that, unlike building furniture from IKEA, you won't have the nuts and bolts that you'll need set aside and packaged for you. To that end, the folks at Bolt Depot have put together a handy cheat sheet that you can use as field guide to fasteners. More »
    


12 Apr 13:39

The masters of hide and seek

Submitted by: dynamietri
Posted at: 2013-04-10 11:08:59
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12 Apr 13:21

Back pack for my kids

Submitted by: kronosmagic
Posted at: 2013-04-10 19:35:09
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12 Apr 13:19

Some wise words from Ted

Submitted by: sidraa
Posted at: 2013-04-10 20:19:37
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12 Apr 13:19

Angry Birds, North Korea version!

Submitted by: javiervb97
Posted at: 2013-04-11 03:21:43
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12 Apr 13:07

Miracle Noodles

by drew

 

“Miracle Noodles” are imitation pasta made with shirataki, which is gel made of glucomannan, an indigestible fiber. They have no calories, no fat, no starch, and no sugar. And they taste mild, so any sauce you cook them in will overwhelm the slightly-off taste of the shirataki. Some dieters love these as a way to fill their stomach with very few calories. (The 450 customer reviews are overwhelmingly positive.)

They sound great, right? I wrote about them here because, not to mince words, if you eat indigestible noodles, you shit indigestible noodles. They don’t get digested. Depending on how much you chew these weird strings, you either shit clumps of tiny little white bits that look like maggots, or clumps of long, entangled white buttworms. Bon appetit!

12 Apr 13:06

Prostate Simulator

by drew
Albener Pessoa

It is real !

PDuz5YR

Prostate cancer is serious. So is benign prostate hyperplasia, and a bunch of other prostate-related afflictions. I couldn’t find this exact model online, but I was surprised to find that there are multiple manufacturers of prostate simulators, this one being the most graphic, and most expensive, at $900.

Doctors treating diseases to make our lives better and longer isn’t why this item is here, though. It’s here because somewhere, someone has ordered a $900 prostate simulator just so they could fuck it. That’s what we do. We’re born, we go through school, we work, we save our money, and some of us, as a species, buy expensive medical tools and fuck them.

12 Apr 13:04

1058 – Semelhanças

by Carlos Ruas

2028

12 Apr 13:03

Sonhos

by Carlos Ruas

14

12 Apr 13:03

Tomates

by Carlos Ruas

2034

12 Apr 13:03

Na china reencarnar é proibido.

by Carlos Ruas

linha pra post

Se você estiver preocupado com a sua reencarnação, providencie tudo e garanta que ela não ocorra em território chinês. Lá, existe uma lei que determina que a reencarnação seja autorizada pelo governo. Isso tem sido um grande problema aos monges tibetanos, os quais consideram a lei uma tentativa de diminuir o poder de Dalai Lama, que aos 77 anos se nega a reencarnar no Tibet enquanto ele for de domínio chinês.

 

Ou seja…

2033

 

Fonte: MEGACURIOSO

 

12 Apr 13:02

Eucalyptus

by Doug

Eucalyptus

Somebody please prove this scientifically! Here are more farts and science.

12 Apr 13:01

Bird Bath

by Doug

Bird Bath

More birds.

12 Apr 13:01

Over Overtime

by Doug

Over Overtime

Here’s more time travel.

11 Apr 11:35

25 Reasons The Job Search Sucks, As Told By Frustrated Cats

For unemployed Americans and soon-to-be college grads, the job search is a terrible void of suckage. These cats explain a few reasons why.

Using Indeed.com and other job search websites.

Using Indeed.com and other job search websites.

Please stop listing Microsoft Word as a skill on every job.

Via: orkugifs.com

When people give you advice on how you could do it better.

When people give you advice on how you could do it better.

"You should try a temp agency. You know, [random stranger] got his first job from a temp agency."

Via: catgifpage.com

Copy and pasting your résumé into some online applications and the fancy formatting disappears.

Copy and pasting your résumé into some online applications and the fancy formatting disappears.

But it was perfect!

Via: alxbngala.tumblr.com

Relatives and friends asking, "How's it going?"

Relatives and friends asking, "How's it going?"

"How's it going? Well, I haven't told you about any job offers so I'd wager it's going downright shitty."

Via: seahorsesforlife.tumblr.com


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11 Apr 11:29

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07 Apr 12:54

Coreia do Norte inicia produção de Marcos Felicianos em massa


PYONGYANG - Pressionado por representantes dos direitos humanos a abandonar a energia nuclear, o líder Kim Jong-un anunciou que tomará uma medida drástica, malvada e muito pior do que o enriquecimento de urânio. "Chega de palhaçada, né!. Iniciamos ontem a produção, em massa, de Marcos Feliciano. Alguns, inclusive, já foram introduzidos na Coreia do Sul, né!", ameaçou o grande líder.
07 Apr 12:44

Em caso de despressurização, Gol cobrará por máscaras de oxigênio


GALEÃO-CUMBICA - Após o anúncio de um prejuízo bilionário, aeromoças da Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes comunicaram, com um suave fio de voz, uma série de ajustes: "Senhores passageiros, estamos passando por uma zona de instabilidade. Em caso de despressurização, nosso serviço de bordo cobrará por máscaras de oxigênio", anunciaram pelo serviço de alto-falantes.
07 Apr 12:44

Serra esconde ovo de Páscoa de Aécio


LEBLON – Aflito para celebrar sua ressurreição, José Serra organizou eventos de Páscoa por todo o país. "Tucaninho da Páscoa, que trazes para mim? Uma candidatura? Dois vices? Três prévias? Um motim?", cantarolou, enquanto anunciava ter espalhado os ovos de Páscoa de Aécio Neves por várias cidades sem boate e restaurante bom. "Duvido que Aécio encontre", desafiou.
07 Apr 01:58

Oh man, do you see that?

Submitted by: postninegagcom
Posted at: 2013-03-29 15:20:45
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6940590

07 Apr 01:52

Close enough

Submitted by: rodrigo11
Posted at: 2013-03-31 23:44:36
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6962922

07 Apr 01:50

Taking control

Submitted by: harveyburgos7
Posted at: 2013-03-31 10:11:51
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6956462

06 Apr 23:54

Maybe Walmart's Just Reusing the Box... Yeah, That's the Ticket!

Submitted by: Unknown