Bout of Context

Area man Peter Feld’s series on reverse-bullying those accused of provoking the South Hadley student suicide reminded me of a recent NYT piece on Chinese retribution crowd-sourcing:

Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.

[It’s worth adding a caveat in the words of one such searcher: “When we tried to fight evil, we found ourselves becoming evil.”]

Arrive magazine is the unlikely source of this short feature on niche mixologists curating local, seasonal ingredients for cocktails. I admire both the pretense and the degree of difficulty.

Nora, consider this an Evoe challenge.

So, you know how everyone is always writing “I was not phased by [this or that]?” Why wouldn’t they? It looks like the correct spelling. But hold onto your pantaloons bitches because it’s not! It’s “fazed.” Really. Preach it, Dictionary.com:

Faze: (v) to cause to be disturbed or…