Alex Balk and Choire Sicha: The Awl
Alex Balk and Choire Sicha just started a new blog called The Awl. In the absence of Radar, we’re happy to see the two working together. Plus we like their tagline: “Be Less Stupid.”
Wikipedia: An awl is a tool with a long pointed spike used for marking wood
Here’s what Balk and Sicha have to say about the site:
It was birthed from the following thoughts: What if there were a website that zippily surveyed a wealth of resonant, weird, important, frightening, amusing bits of news and ideas? And what if it weren’t totally clogged with reality show linkbait?
It would be a website which wasn’t so invested in giving you the ‚”counterintuitive take” that it actually stopped making sense. Dream further: What if were run by people who actually didn’t care about the way we all allegedly live now? This is our little dream. And it begins here, in an extremely bare form. It might even grow. (Would you perhaps like to invest?) … Also the dream of feeding our addictions. And/or cats.
