A few minutes before two o'clock on a Friday afternoon last fall, Dain Hancock stood up and left a packed auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas. He tried to be unobtrusive, but every eye in the room followe
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Over the past two decades or so, a cultural phenomenon has taken hold in America. It involves grown men and women pretending to be the owners of imaginary professional sports teams on the internet. It
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Growing up, I was consistently enamored with the kind of brainteasers that pull one’s mind in two directions simultaneously — like reading the word ‘green’ written in blue ink. I loved the instinct-ve
When I see Dave Chappelle for the first time, at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, he looks damn happy. Like, shit-eating-grin * happy. Like, irrepressible-little-kid happy. The way Dave is today—it’
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Whether they like it or not, Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston will be compared and contrasted extensively between now and April 30 th , 2015 – Day 1 of the NFL draft. Both players look like they could have been dreamt up by NFL general managers and manifested in physical form. Mariota stands 6-4…
Jaime is “creeped out” by technology. She uses her phone to get directions to her new job, only to find that the phone already knows where her office is . While shopping online, her favorite retail pa
TALLAHASSEE — Given the 80-odd mostly white students, the occasional ball caps and tattoos, the Tuesday morning hush and the student quickly punching her phone for the time (10:30), this Room 208 coul
Published in The JavaScript Collection · 5 min read · Dec 3, 2014 -- With just a few lines of code you can get analytics about specific user interactions on your site. Cross reference successes, failu
Cue the Musberger voice: “the Grandaddy of them all, the big cheese, for all the Roses!”. Though Musberger may not be on the call this time around, the Rose Bowl carries as much weight as ever as Flor
On Jan. 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old high school student from Baltimore, went missing. About a month later, police uncovered her body in a nearby park; an autopsy would later find that she wa
Design Explosions #1 Mapping on iOS Hullo! Design Explosions is a new series by UX Launchpad , a one-day, hands-on, fun design class based in sunny Seattle. Today we’re going to use Google Maps and Apple Maps as a design lesson. If you haven’t already, please check out our brief introductory post…
Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown An occasional segment where Colbert investigates unexplained phenomenon of the distant past, "Mysteries of the Ancient Unknown" peaked with his pseudo-hard-hitting 201
It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life this summer: YOU. I am endlessly fascinated by the link between the way we choose to live our lives and the happiness we enjoy on a dail
Published in Technology Musings · 12 min read · Dec 22, 2014 -- Podcasting started about ten years ago and I remember watching Dave Winer and Adam Curry devise a way in public, in near real-time, to t
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At the end of a gravel road in the Chippewa National Forest of northern Minnesota, a group of camp counselors has gathered to hear psychotherapist Tina Bryson speak about neuroscience, mentorship, and
Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, and Jim Webb may all run for President in 2016. Illustration by John Cuneo The Sunday before Election Day, Hillary Clinton addressed a crowd of voters at an afternoon
I’m not going to sit here and write some column seething with venom and overt rage towards the New York Times. That looked ugly enough on their end when they did it last night . What I will say is tha
Programmers dream of new code. We spend a good deal of our time working on code we didn’t write for software we didn’t create, much of which we believe is horribly written (or, at least, could be done
A version of this story appears in the Dec. 29 issue of Sports Illustrated. Don Brown had just spent an hour inside the Boston College defensive film room, dissecting the performance of Florida State
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Power down When is the last time you powered down. All the way down. Not asleep. Not in airplane mode but ON | OFF . Try it with me now. Take your phone out, if you’re not already futzing with it, and
The St. Louis county officials released photos of Officer Darren Wilson after his altercation with Michael Brown. We've finally heard from Officer Darren Wilson . Wilson had been publicly silent since
The New Yorker's next cover is incredible. http://t.co/aCtcI2lilI pic.twitter.com/kLD9u1Aglz — Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) November 26, 2014 I've seen a whole lot of commentary online about people who
Of course there are several author photos in Bob Odenkirk’s new book. Collectively, they’re a nod to the abundance of Odenkirks spread across the cultural spectrum. There’s the dramatic actor whose re
F or millennia, if not for eons—anthropology continuously pushes backward the time of human origin—life expectancy was short. The few people who grew old were assumed, because of their years, to have
Florida State -- if you want to address them as a whole, collective personage -- knows. They know. They know you hate them, and their quarterback, and their fans, and their fans on Twitter, and their
Daniel Ek says his company is “not in the music space—we’re in the moment space.” Illustration by Harry Campbell; photograph: Eyevine / Redux Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the te
The Long Way Home Demaryius Thomas is within reach of realizing all his NFL dreams. But to gain what he wants most -- his family reunited -- he's learning to let go of what tore them apart. ESPN The M
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Greg Savage, founder of Firebrand (an Aquent brand down under) posted this no-holds-barred post about the importance of showing up on time. We thought it was too good not to share.
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Android updates don't matter anymore—or at least that's what many people think. Back-to-back-to-back Jelly Bean releases and a KitKat release seemed to only polish what already existed. When Google to
The Oatmeal Home Comics Games Books Blog Subscribe Dear Senator Ted Cruz, I'm going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works "Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet sho
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