Ryan Doyle

I added 15+ people who have friends lists on my new project slashfriends.org/?test You can make one if you have a website with this prompt -- I want to add a /friends page to my personal website. It's a page at /friends where I link to people I like and admire, kind of like an old-school blogroll. Please help me build it: 1. Interview me first. Ask me for a few real friends and a few people whose work I admire online. For each one, get their name, their website or social profile link, and one short sentence on how I know them or why I like them. Ask me one question at a time so it's easy to answer. 2. Then create a page at the /friends path of my site. List each person with their name linked to their URL, followed by my one-line note. Match the style and layout of the rest of my site. 3. Then ask me: do I want to add a small credit line at the bottom of the page? It reads: "This is a /friends page, inspired by slashfriends.org and Nick Gray." with "slashfriends.org" linked to slashfriends.org and "Nick Gray" linked to nickgray.net . It's totally optional, but pages that link back get a FEATURED badge in the slashfriends.org directory. Only add it if I say yes. When you're done, remind me to submit my new page at slashfriends.org so it gets added to the directory. -- end prompt Try it out & any feedback appreciated!

On August 24, 2014, James Beach, a six-foot-one businessman from Denver, was returning from Moscow when he deployed the Knee Defender—“a $22 gadget,” the Associated Press reported, “that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front from reclining.” The woman in front of him, unable to lean back, flagged a flight attendant. From there, events spiralled. Beach removed the Knee Defender, but then became upset when the woman reclined forcefully, risking damage to his computer. He confronted her, pushed her seat forward, and tried to reinstall his device, at which point, he said, she turned around and threw her soda at him. The plane was diverted to Chicago, where it was met by police, and news coverage of the event led to conversations about reclining one’s airplane seat. “The bottom line is that reclining is a social act in an environment of social stress. It involves deciding whether to inflict your will on someone else, and enduring or resisting the effects of someone else’s decision,” Joshua Rothman writes. Read more about the ethics of reclining your seat: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9zPAOe