From sweet, sweet crooning to creepy text-based games to the inevitable Ebola links, here are your weekend reading (and watching, and listening!) recommendations from the Gumroad team.
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Bill Murray to Sing Christmas Carols in Upcoming TV Special (Variety)
And to all a good night.
Yes! HBO Without a Cable Subscription is Coming Next Year (Gizmodo)
As if you’re not on your mom’s account.
No More Monster Mash: 25 Awesome Halloween Songs You Haven’t Already Heard a Million Times (xoJane)
Tis the season!
Work & Creativity
The merchant of disease who wants six figures for Ebola.com (Washington Post)
At the time of posting, possumfever.com is available. Monkeyflu.com, however, is taken.
Discovering Two Screens Aren’t Better Than One (New York Times)
Umm… but what about three?
Dawn of Def Jam: Rick Rubin Returns to His NYU Dorm Room (YouTube)
“I had never met anybody so focused. He just had that do-it-yourself attitude where he knew what he wanted to do, and he was not afraid to fail.”
Variety makes you (mentally) fit (Economist)
Being bilingual puts your brain on swole. Start shredding that Duolingo.
Stuff & Things
The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo (CorrelatedContents.com)
Nostalgic. Creepy. Get your headphones ready.
How Rebounds Work (Grandland.com)
New cameras are teaching us more about where missed shots land.
An Illustrated History of Unbelievably Camouflaged Ships (io9)
Dazzle camo is BACK.
The Dutch boy mopping up a sea of plastic (BBC)
You’re currently doing your part by eating some of it as it works its way back up the chain.
Odds & Ends
CVS BANGERS VOLUME 3 (DJ Hennessy Youngman)
A killer DJ mix of jams you’d hear at CVS. The third installment!
Some Fear Ebola Outbreak Could Make Nation Turn to Science (New Yorker)
Heaven forbid.