Burning man more like soggy man Photos Show People Stranded At Burning Man After A Rainstorm Turned The Desert Into A Mud Pit 2 diggs People are stranded at Burning Man after bad weather brought the f
Lauren Giraldo, better known as Princess Lauren on Vine, is a 16-year-old social media Star who makes about $2,000 per sponsored Vine. Princess Lauren/Vine For 16 year-old Lauren Giraldo, $2,000 isn't
“Historical Essay on the Art of Bookbinding” Published in Liminal Encyclopedia · 4 min read · Sep 18, 2013 -- When I work for certain companies I produce Deliverables. A Deck [future post] is a delive
Whenever you see something labeled “smart” or “intelligent,” be assured that it is actually rather stupid. Stupid smart watches I was deep asleep when my watch started vibrating on my wrist. Chrrr, ch
Reading a good book can be a rewarding experience, but it can be frustrating when the information just floats through your head without sticking in your memory. Luckily there are a few methods that ca
Sebastian Garcia made a mistake, but he couldn’t figure it out. At the 2011 National Junior High Chess Championship, he was looking strong and heading towards a victory. Then he made a mistake, squand
I remember listening to music on my iPhone one morning in the salty, rust-tinged gym at the Dolphin Club, one of the oldest swimming and boating clubs in San Francisco. An elderly man in a Speedo tapp
O ne of the few places the Helvetica font has failed to infiltrate over the past half-century is the graveyard – Roman typefaces such as Perpetua or Bembo tend to work better on headstones. But perhap
When Daehee Park and JT Marino left the tech startup they worked for to strike out on their own, they looked for a different pace, perhaps something in an “old-fashioned industry” ripe for change. The
It’s well known that living in high-poverty neighborhoods has a significant effect on the mental health of children. Now a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers a nuanced
Selena larson / Mar 6, 2014 / Web Another day, another Yahoo acquisition. Yesterday the search giant swiped up the five-man Vizify team , a data visualization startup that turns your social media post
Surveillance by Algorithm Increasingly, we are watched not by people but by algorithms. Amazon and Netflix track the books we buy and the movies we stream, and suggest other books and movies based on
Was the iOS SSL Flaw Deliberate? Last October, I speculated on the best ways to go about designing and implementing a software backdoor. I suggested three characteristics of a good backdoor: low chanc
There’s not much actual information about CarPlay yet, but it’ll be a long time before it’s in enough cars on the road to be relevant. It also has the potential to fizzle out because Apple demands mor
That experience was painful, and it clearly wasn't much fun for the other drivers, either. So to help those who might be new to this city or simply passing through, here is a set of principles I call
"The Hard Thing about Hard Things": The most valuable book on startup management hands down It's not a surprise that Ben Horowitz got a book deal, that the book is already getting a flood of press, or
Approaching Homebrew’s one year anniversary at the end of April so expect some ‘reflective’ posts on my first 12 months in venture capital. Venture capital isn’t the only way to fund your business and
I am an intermediate programmer.
I have a pretty good grasp of the basics. I have made enough mistakes to have a good idea why they were mistakes. I am aware that there is a lot that I need to know more about. Crucially, I have some idea of what those things are, and I am actively and energetically…
Old, white, wrinkled and angry, they are slipping from polite society in alarming numbers. We’re losing much of a generation. They often sport hats or other clothing, some marking their status as vete
EARNING IT EARNING IT;Workaholics Aren't the Only Ones Who Hate Vacations Credit... The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from December 3, 1995, Section 3, Page 13 Buy Re
Photo: Shutterstock I was standing at a party, chatting with friends, when a man walked directly through our circle and announced, “Maureen O’Connor! You dropped our conversation on Tinder.” What happ
Barack Obama (AFP) By Mark Felsenthal and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will strike a firmly populist tone in his 2015 budget plan on Tuesday, proposing to pay for an expans
"Get together?" The subject line of the e-mail was like every other come-on that hit Jan Koum's in-box in the spring of 2012. He was pounded daily by investors who wanted a piece of his company, Whats
A. Strakey Hundreds of open source packages, including the Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions of Linux, are susceptible to attacks that circumvent the most widely used technology to prevent eav
Why vacation at tech companies should be mandatory: better code, happier people Can a policy that banks use to combat insider fraud also make tech companies produce better products and happier employees? Sure. At Sourcegraph , our mandatory vacation policy requires everyone to completely disconnect…
“It’s a texting alternative to Snapchat, where you can send self-destruct texts to contacts, great for confidentiality/discreet messages that you want permanently erased.” – Michael, CEO & developer of Puffchat.
Puffchat popped up on my Facebook Timeline this week with the claim of being a ‘secure’…
Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative , which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the world who still lack connectivity, is in talks with
Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren’t even told that such paintings
More About Marc Marc Andreessen is a Cofounder and General Partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used b
For this group of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server. Each were former members of the elite hacking
First thing that surprised me about the Female Founder’s Conference is that it was all women. Okay, I know, that sounds ridiculous. I expected it to be all-women speakers, I expected it to be majority
3 March 2014 NOTE: I have written a follow-up post torespond to some questions this post may raise . Let’s say you have a brand-new Windows laptop and you’re just oh, sohappy. You’re pretty sure the N
OMG On March 3, 2014, Kickstarter passed $1 BILLION in pledges. That’s $1,000,000,000 pledged by 5.7 million people to creative projects. KICKSTARTER More than half was pledged in the last 12 months a
A simple Google search will reveal varying opinions on lunch time best practices. You should go out to grow rapport with colleagues . You should stay in to have better cognitive control and error moni
Here is the full White House statement. Readout of President Obama's Call with President Putin President Obama spoke for 90 minutes this afternoon with President Putin of Russia about the situation in Ukraine.
Modern pop singers lack humanity, says Elton: Musician attacks today's artists as 'processed performers' Elton said autotune had lead to a lack of humanity in songs Criticised modern pop songs for bei
“Betaworks is…” “Betaworks is a holding company slash studio that’s building internet stuff in a different way, based in the Meatpacking District of New York.” Advertisement “Betaworks, I would say we
Allen was photographed on June 3 at his office in Manhattan. His forty-eight picture as a director, Blue Jasmine , is now in theaters. Interviewed June 4, 2013 My two teenage girls think of me as anci
Consumption of online media has changed significantly with the increasing popularity of Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks. We’re exposed to interesting pieces all day, but it’s not always the best time to sit down and read them. A common “solution” for most people is to repost the link to…
Photo: Graham MacIndoe Most documentary projects about addiction expose someone else’s self-destructive behavior, but Graham MacIndoe took a very different approach: He photographed himself during the
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