Reading roundup: Mardi Gras 2015, Glenda Ritz, Westminster Dog Show

Coffee and newspaper for reading roundup post

Brr! I’m just about sick of wintry weather by now, but we may suffer through several more chances of snow through Sunday, not to mention bitter wind chills during midweek. Come on spring!

Here are 10 or so links I’ve been reading to set you up for Tuesday:

  • Laissez les bon temps roulez! Today is Mardi Gras 2015. I’m decking myself out in beads and living the good times vicariously through coverage of the major parades and happenings in New Orleans this week. (Nola.com) | Fast facts about Fat Tuesday. (USA Today) | 10 places in Indy to get your food, drinks and jazz fix. (IndyStar)
  • Indiana schools chief Glenda Ritz surprised more than 1,000 people who gathered Monday at the Statehouse to rally for public education. Votes on ISTEP, INSBOE bills may come today. (IndyStar) | State budget proposal would cost IPS millions. (Chalkbeat)
  • More than 3,000 of the world’s most pampered dogs have descended upon Manhattan for the 139th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.  Don’t miss Best in Show during the final night tonight, on USA Network. (USA Today) |  Or: Watch “Best in Show,” Christopher Guest & Co.’s brilliant sendup of the event. (Amazon.com)

  • Congrats! For a fourth straight year, the Indianapolis International Airport was voted the best in North America. (IndyStar)
  • Are license-plate scanners a valuable tool to help police nab fugitives and find missing people?  Or are they an  invasion of privacy?  (Both?) A bill authored by Sen. Jim Smith, R-Clarksville, currently would require that records be purged after 30 days unless police have a warrant or can cite an ongoing investigation. (IndyStar)
  • Gulp. The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives. (Reuters)
  • Got the wintertime blues — and boots? A new study finds that even gentle lunchtime strolls can immediately buoy people’s moods and ability to handle stress at work. (New York Times)
  • Why you should not describe a person with, say, autism as an autistic person — that is, with the adjective first: “There’s so much more to a person than their disability.” (IndyStar)
  • Really digging the heart-shaped rock that Lady Gaga is sporting for her just-announced engagement to “Chicago Fire” actor Taylor Kinney. (People)

He gave me his heart on Valentine’s Day, and I said YES!

A photo posted by @ladygaga on

  • While you were working/clearing snow/leading a productive life on Monday, Khloe Kardashian defended little sis Kylie Jenner to model Amber Rose in an EPIC war on Twitter. (EOnline)

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What are you reading? Leave a link in the comments!

Author: Cori

Cori Faklaris (aka "HeyCori") is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing. Faklaris received her PhD in human-computer interaction in 2022 from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She also is a social media expert and longtime journalist, and/or "Doer of Things No One Else Wants to Do."

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