Luke Wilson got a spot on Porn for Women back in March.
- The New Republic is where dreams go to die: “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, the eighth-most trusted man in the United States, and subject of their latest profile, might be a less-than genius alcoholic. [New Republic]
- Estonia has an e-residency program. You don’t have to live in Estonia to get digital ID. Primarily, it’s for foreigners who want “to support the Estonian economy,” but don’t live there. [Finance Estonia via @bratton]
- This year’s Frieze talks are now online and you can download them forever, as many times as you want. [Frieze]
- Everything you need to know about the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Corcoran College of Art and Design’s closure. “[A]bout 180 adjunct faculty members will not be promised positions, and 30 to 40 other full-time gallery or college staffers will lose their jobs.” [Washington Post]
- Porn for Women, the “curated” Instagram account, is now The P.F.W., the website with original content. The purpose of this site is to give women pictures of handsome, nice men straight from a Vogue photo shoot. There’s no sex because women don’t really like porn, but they like what men look like in fashion magazines! File this under b.s., please. [The Daily Beast]
- Just in time for Memorial Day, Coney Island gets a new roller coaster, the Thunderbolt. Each car has three seats instead of the usual four, the designer mentions, because families have fewer children here. [New York Magazine]
- Netflix’s chief product officer, Neil Hunt, thinks that their personalization technology will become so good over the next few years that you won’t even have to tell it what you want. Netflix will just know. LOL! [Wired]
- The Met’s modern and contemporary galleries are getting a renovation. They plan to rebuild them—possibly from scratch, according the former Director Philippe de Montebello. [The New York Times]
- A book about terrible people. The first biography of the Koch brothers is now out: The Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became the Most Powerful and Private Dynasty. [Amazon
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- Writer Steve Kandell’s sister passed away in the World Trade Center collapse, so he was allowed VIP access to the 9/11 Museum. He reveals that there’s an appointment-onl
y room inside the museum that includes floor-to-ceilin g cabinets of unidentified remains from the disasters. [Buzzfeed]
