NTS Radio (est. 2011), has two channels running 24/7 with live chats frequented by deranged listeners from around the world. People you wish you knew, but also are glad you don't.
FIFI’S TOP 5:
IT doesn’t write your emails, but ten minutes reading wiki can do something even better: make you funny at parties.
Spend some time reading about the toast sandwich or the dancing plague of 1688 (30 people died).
> This French mail carrier who built a palace from rocks he collected along his route
> A place in XXX where women rule the world with absolute monarchy and matriarchy (their website is VERY NSFW)
> This guy that Oxford university held a grudge against for so long that after 550 years, everyone forgot why they hated him.
> The movement to get rid of time zones. Actually so into it.
4. E-INK PHONES AND THROW BACK DEVICES
Kendrick Lamar, Aaron Paul, and the modern day luddites have all said bye-bye to the traditional black boxes of doom and are moving on to civilized technology like The Light Phone, Clicks, Mudita, and Bigme.
Take a backseat soho house. The people of the world are craving free hangs! Speed dating, salsa dancing,, sailing lessons, board game cafes, music jams, writing groups, running clubs, pick up games—silent book clubs. Low pressure bonding that doesn’t cost a lot of money is a human necessity.
The cozy bookshops of our dreams
> Politeia, Athens, Greece - a maze of a store
> Daunt Books, London, England - refined British taste
> Annie Bloom's Books, Portland, Oregon - old Portland vibes
> Keibunsha Ichijoji Bookshop, Japan - tender whimsy and magic.
> Rizzoli, Milian, Italy - austier and polished
> Het Fort van Sjakoo (Amsterdam), for those of you who hate the man
> Housing Works Bookstore (NYC), Full of love for it's people, and with a stellar mission
> Prairie Lights (Iowa City, IA), a kurt vonnegut haunt, and beloved by the Iowa Writers Workshop