user: Q: Tim Ferriss + Mosey + InsideHook + Sosh curate outings

Bestselling author of “The 4-Hour Workweek” Tim Ferriss and InsideHook – the gentleman’s e-newsletter good life guide that launched in San Francisco this month – clearly know how to curate a rollicking good time (see photos).

The concept began about 10 years ago with sites like DailyCandy.com. And today several locally based startups have also thrown their hats into the locally curated event and lifestyle ring. With sites like InsideHook, Mosey and Sosh, denizens have an ever-evolving bevy of ways to enjoy the city.

For a crowdsourced, curated day, there’s Mosey – as in “mosey on down to the saloon.” Created by a team of California College of the Arts MBA Design Strategy graduates, Moseys are step-by-step itineraries complete with maps, photographs and business information for the local and the tourist. “It always sparks an anxiety when out-of-town friends ask, ‘Hey I’m in your city what should I do?’” said Mosey CMO Matthew Loyd. “Mosey creates a really easy way to save your experiences and then just share them.” The company has been active for just over 12 weeks, but there are already hundreds of Moseys in San Francisco and around the world. Itineraries have included a route of cheap restaurants around the office, a summer style run and even a guide to InsideHook’s day out with Tim Ferriss. “It’s not just about a great new restaurant,” said Mosey CEO Eric Persha. “It’s more about telling a long-form story.”

For San Franciscans who like to plan their fun according to neighborhood, there’s Sosh (pronounced like the first half of the word “social”), a local startup that scours each San Francisco (and New York) neighborhood to find the most intriguing activities worthy of your inbox. From Bootcamp with a View in the Presidio to a Cosmic Collisions exhibit at The Cal Academy of Sciences, Sosh is a democratic fun finder for a wide breadth of socioeconomic demands. And everyone you know is probably already using it, as you will learn when the e-newsletters tell you how many of your friends bookmarked a particular event. Like InsideHook, Sosh calls upon curators to create the agenda; past contributors have been Mike Krieger, the co-founder of Instagram, Ben Flajnik of “The Bachelor” and Owner of 15 Romolo & Rye, Jon Gasparini. Sosh’s tagline? “Life’s too short to be bored.”
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A: Bestselling author of "The 4-Hour Workweek" Tim Ferriss and InsideHook - the gentleman's e-newsletter good life guide that launched in San Francisco this month - clearly know how to curate a rollic...


Q: Ben Carson used an apparently fake Joseph Stalin quote - and the Internet loved it

Ben Carson, toward the end of Saturday's CBS Republican presidential debate, decided for some reason to quote Joseph Stalin.

"Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down, you have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality," Carson said.

Carson was making a point about the country needing someone like him to stop its decline -- we think. It was kind of a weird use of the quote, to be honest.

It was even weirder considering there is no solid proof that Stalin ever said it.

Proving a negative is often an uncertain proposition, but our reasons for believing this quotation to be of dubious origin are:

And we would note for emphasis here that Carson did not utter these comments in the midst of a lengthy policy debate in which he was speaking off the cuff. This was his closing statement -- a closing statement that is undoubtedly something planned and practiced.

The fact that Carson used a false quote is the latest piece of proof that perhaps he's out of his league on that debate stage.

Update: Naturally, some folks on social media had some fun with this:

"Ben Carson would be a very strong foe of communism, yipes stripes" -Josef Stalin

— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) February 14, 2016

Carson: "As Stalin once said, 'If you want to know more, go to Ben Carson dot com...'"

— delrayser (@delrayser) February 14, 2016

I do not have to check to know that Stalin quote from Carson is made up.

— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) February 14, 2016

Note to self: Go find that Stalin quote.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) February 14, 2016

Candidates tussled over immigration, welfare, Planned Parenthood and more during the CBS Republican presidential primary debate in Greenville, S.C. Here are key moments from that debate. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)

Aaron Blake covers national politics and writes regularly for The Fix.
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A: And it was in Carson's closing statement. Ouch.


Q: ‘The Escape Artist,’ a ‘Masterpiece Mystery!’ Thriller

By KATHRYN SHATTUCKJUNE 15, 2014

“If you’re chained up in a safe at the bottom of a shark tank,” a colleague advises early in “The Escape Artist,” what you do is “call for Houdini.” The Houdini he means is Will Burton (David Tennant, expressive as ever), London’s top-ranked junior criminal defense barrister, according to a recent poll, and well up the ladder toward queen’s counsel because of his ability to win any case. But his invincible legal acrobatics backfire when a handshake denied sends his latest client, the reclusive bird lover, sadist and psychopath Liam Foyle (Toby Kebbell), into a rage — leaving Will, his wife (Ashley Jensen) and their son (Gus Barry) targets of his revenge. Enter Will’s professional nemesis, Maggie Gardner (Sophie Okonedo, fresh off a Tony victory for best supporting actress in a play for “A Raisin in the Sun”), frothing to overtake her rival. David Wolstencroft, the mastermind behind the BBC spy series “MI-5,” wrote this two-part “Masterpiece Mystery!” thriller, beginning Sunday night on PBS, which plumbs Will’s justification for his job in all its ramifications. “Everyone deserves a defense,” he maintains. Even he.

A version of this article appears in print on June 15, 2014, on page AR4 of the New York edition with the headline: When Barristers Do Battle. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe
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assistant: “The Escape Artist,” a two-part “Masterpiece Mystery!” thriller, begins Sunday night on PBS.