- Like every year, Pantone names a color of the year and then people make a lot of money off accessories of that color. This year it’s a reddish mauve. Liver, some say. [Pantone]
- Babies having an animated conversation about da da da da da da. [Facebook via @bethheinly]
- Another first-person essay discusses how awful it is to try to date on OkCupid. “But from an economic perspective, it’s fascinating to see how I look at all of this [profiles] not as an array of wonderful possibilities, but as a scarcity of options.” [The Billfold]
- The witch is dead. Michele Bachmann gives her farewell speech, casually mentioning that millions of dollars were spent to keep her from her post, and she was given even more to stay—in other words, elections are bought. In a few sentences, Bachmann expresses that Native Americans were righteously replaced by Christians; all the men in her constituency are good-looking; and the House is entrusted with “the nation’s credit card.” Again, this woman held the nation’s credit card. [Wonkette]
- Here’s a crocheted viking hat for cats. [Geek x Girls]
- Here’s a crocheted squirrel hat and diaper cover for newborns. [Pinterest]
- This piece on how ten years of work in academia prepared the author for her new job at BuzzFeed mostly reveals enormity of BuzzFeed’s resources. [Buzzfeed]
- Williamsburg is getting an Apple store. This announcement comes just days after the Williamsburg Funeral parade. [Gothamist]
- Just in time for the holidays, a reminder that your flight experiences could be so, so much worse. In a bureaucratic morass dubbed “Nut Rage,” one airline executive, after quarreling with flight attendants over the presentation of her complimentary nuts, ordered the plane to be returned to its gate at JFK. [The Seattle Times]
- If we link disproportionately to Vulture, it’s because they’re cranking out more bloggage than our feedly can keep up with. Anyway Eric Fischl curated a show about dolls. Here’s the slideshow. [Vulture]
- “[A] potent antidote to the feeding frenzy at Art Basel Miami Beach”: Andrew Russeth interviews Hans Haacke, an artist of rare political awareness, and one of the few who consistently uses Seth Siegelaub’s 1971 resale royalties contract. [ARTnews]
