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Comedian Jon Glaser On How Hoodies and Sweatpants Can Score You a TV Show

The comedian came up with his new Adult Swim series “Neon Joe” as a joke for Fallon, so we had him make up MORE show concepts on the fly.

It’s the kind of story that could drive anyone with a polished script languishing on their hard drive to an appointment with the nearest ledge: Comedian, actor, and writer Jon Glaser got a series greenlit based entirely on an off-the-cuff joke.

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Pentagram’s DJ Stout: There Needs To Be More Storytelling In Graphic Design

“Everything we do is about storytelling,” Stout says.

The cover of Texas Monthly‘s July 1992 issue features an portrait of then governor Ann Richards sitting on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. She’s dressed head to toe white leather, her hair is coiffed in her signature gray bouffant, and she stares confidently at the camera. To DJ Stout, the cover’s designer, this portrait of Richards, 60 years old at the time, was “the perfect metaphor for capturing her salty wit and irreverent personality,” he once wrote. In a fleeting glance, readers knew it wasn’t business as usual at the Texas statehouse. The audacious concept is also one of the perfect examples of Stout’s evocative, eclectic approach to visual design.

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Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against Black Renters, Study Finds

Airbnb hosts were less inclined to book renters with stereotypically African-American names, Harvard Business School researchers found.

A new study from Harvard Business School finds that Airbnb hosts are more likely to book reservations with users who have “distinctly white” names, according to Bloomberg. Researchers discovered that renters who had stereotypically African-American names were less likely to score bookings on the platform.

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Will Take To The Skies Again Next Week

Months after its last failed attempt to land the Falcon 9, SpaceX is gearing up to do yet another test launch of the unmanned rocket.

After the disastrous test run of its rocket back in June, SpaceX went dark for a few months, save for the occasional Twitter kerfuffle. But today, the private space company announced it is finally ready for another attempt: CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19. The rocket will contain 11 satellites that are being sent into lower Earth orbit for a client called Orbcomm, a New Jersey-based communications company.

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