Rusty Russell — a hacker I admire greatly — writes: “If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot.” This was passed on to me…
Every industry has its own esoteric vernacular (Pow! Suck on my English degree, bitches!), but Silicon Valley’s reaches a whole new level of douchery. Even at the best of times, Valley-speak…
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Late yesterday afternoon I was supposed to meet SceneTap CEO Cole Harper at a bar in San Francisco, so I could get an in-person view of his company’s nightlife monitoring system that was set…
You can watch live from the NASDAQ site as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes history this morning ringing the bell to open the day’s trading on the NASDAQ from Facebook’s headquarters just before…
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The best way to compare Twitter and Facebook is to look at the old children’s story The Tortoise and the Hare.For those that don’t remember curling up in bed as a child, listening to an…
If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that’s because the world wants to stay the way it is. Customers, partners, and most…
Pop-Pop and Boom! Dan Harmon will not be returning as showrunner of NBC's Community, and whether he'll remain involved at all with the series he created at remains very much in
Facebook has just acquired social commerce startup Karma. The terms of the deal are undisclosed but 16 employees of the startup will be joining Facebook. The purchase could help Facebook assist…
Regina Spektor had warned me that she wouldn’t let me hear her sing. Now we were sitting outside the L.A. studio of her producer, Mike Elizondo, where she’d been laying down initial tracks of piano…
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Advice by Rob Giampietro to designers getting ready to start their own studio: 1. An untended garden quickly becomes a field: plant what you want to grow. 2. Have partners, but don’t do the…
While writing this post, I will get bored. I will get tired of looking at these words and crave a distraction. And so I will click away from this page and head somewhere else, amusing myself with a…
You know those huge multichannel mixers--the massive boards that audio engineers manage during concerts to control everything from sound to lights? It’s the sort of highly specialized hardware…
Community creator Dan Harmon will no longer serve as the series’ showrunner, The A.V. Club has learned from Sony Pictures Television, which produces the show. Taking his place are David…
There’s been lots of buzz on the topic of whether or not you should learn to code. As an engineer, I don’t have unbiased thoughts on the matter. I tweeted Jeff Atwood’s piece because, well, I agree…
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Hands, the debut album from perma-charming British dance diva Little Boots, is now three years old, and she’s finally putting some new jams out into the world, like the tracks…
The Made in NY Digital Map is a visual testament to the vibrant state of New York's digital industry - showing a powerful constellation of over 500 homegrown startups, investors and coworking spaces…
In a blog post today announcing Twitter's new tailored suggestions system is something that has me absolutely shocked: an overt admission that Twitter is transparently tracking your movements around…
FORTUNE -- Facebook (FB) shares didn't pop. They didn't crumble. They closed the day at $38.23 per share, or less than a percentage point higher than where the company's IPO had priced last night.…
As the weather gets warmer in the Northern Hemisphere, lighter food and wines become increasingly appealing. Home cooks and professionals alike look forward to the spring for the chance to use tender…
Welcome Magic Alchemy & The OccultThe legend of Khun Paen and Guman Thong is far more relevant today than at any other time throughout the entire history of the human race. It encompasses…
This June marks the end of my graduate work in Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program. As the culmination of my time as a creative nonfiction student, I am compiling a thesis to…
When Alex Rainert joined Foursquare in March 2010, its user base was 500,000--and people were mostly just checking in places and earning badges. Now that number is nearly 40 times larger, on account…
Creating the Windows 8 user experience Steven Sinofsky This blog often focuses on the bits and features and less on the “philosophy” or “context” of the product. Given the level of brand new…
Ridgemore Day School Secular Preschool and Kindergarten (Ages 2.5-5) Non-Traditional, New Age, Sensory, Mixed Movement There are three rules at Ridgemore Day. As you know from the pre-introduction…
Dear America, When you’re born in a Siberian town that is said to be built on the bones of Gulag prisoners it’s fair to assume you have nowhere to move but up. Well, America, I’m not impressed. After…
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http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/the-new-aesthetic-revisited-the-debate-continues (((Doubtless, there’s somebody out there in fondleslab iPad land, who is wondering, ‘What…
When I was a kid, I had a morning routine with my family. Over breakfast, we’d divvy up the newspaper. I’d go straight for the Business section, and from there to the back pages with…
From comics creation to user experience, public media to news innovation, Symbolia’s editorial advisory group spans a fantastic spectrum. Jessica Clark, Howard Finberg, Joan Hilty, and Kevin…
Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images For all the madcap escapades that characterize her role as the hyperopinionated Britta Perry in NBC’s Community, Gillian Jacobs’s career started in…
I am quite giddy over the announcement of Ideapaint Clear: With CLEAR, you can turn any surface into an Ideapaint wall. The new transparent top coat delivers dry erase functionality to smooth…
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Today's news about the Media General/Berkshire Hathaway deal reveals just how dire things have become for our newspaper princes. Unable to turn their newspapers around, Media General has traded its…
May 15 2012 The only editorial mantra that ever made any sense to me comes from the Voice of San Diego new reporter guidelines: “Our bent: Reform. Things can always be better.”…
Martha Payne had some sad-ass lunches at her school in Scotland — unsatisfying food that sometimes had more hair than vegetables. So the 9-year-old decided to start a blog with photos and…
An earnest Mr. Smith at Internet Week. VICE cofounder Shane Smith took the main stage at Internet Week today and demonstrated that although he was about to deliver a political rant, he is still edgy.…
If you’ve spent any time building responsive websites with fluid grids, you will have encountered the shock of seeing your beautiful portrait layout distort when viewed in landscape mode (or…
Sep 26 2010 There are lots of reasons people might want to follow the news, but to me, journalism s core mission is to facilitate agency. I don t think current news products are very good at this.…
Posted by Dr. Macenstein on Sunday, March 22, 2009 · 28 Comments I was in need of the ⌘ symbol for a top secret project today, and not knowing the proper Unicode combo by heart, I…
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
Startups usually succeed because of a single major product or business innovation. Google is unusual in that they succeeded because of two major innovations: their core search product, and their…
Clients can be tough real tough. Working side by side with some clients can be an agonizing experience an experience so painful that you often wonder what exactly you have gotten yourself into. On…
Noah Kagan built two multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He also looks great in orange. (Photo: Laughing Squid ) I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red…
What’s the next big thing after Facebook? For those of us who don’t have a meaty piece of the ongoing action, that’s a fun question. So I decided to resurrect my answer to that…
February 2012 Great news: I've joined Readability as Manager of Community Support and remain Online Editor of The Believer magazine. I teach artists to work better with technology. From computer…
Indie band Here We Go Magic is driving across America on tour. Earlier this week, they spotted legendary director John Waters hitchhiking by the side of the road with a hat that said "Scum of the…
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Like overgrazing of public lands or over-fishing of the seas, the digital space will continue to be exploited -- and that's why it needs to be regulated. laffy4k/Flickr In 1968, the…
Today we’re introducing the research pane—a new feature that brings the web’s wealth of information to you as you’re writing documents. The research pane taps into Google…
May 16, 2012 | 2:26 PM Prepare to meet Nick Hanauer. He's a venture capitalist from Seattle who was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. Today he's a very rich man. And, somewhat jarringly,…
Do you ever feel completely overwhelmed when you're faced with a complex problem? Well, I hope to change that in less than three minutes. So, I hope to convince you that complex doesn't always equal…
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Ben Barry and Everett Katigbak, the brains behind Facebook's Analog Research Laboratory. The pair creates internal messaging for the company in a basement printing press. Facebook’s got it all…
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Kevin Hartz CEO of Eventbrite and an angel investor is waiting out this investment cycle. Photo: Jon Snyder/WIRED Kevin Hartz is sitting this one out. Sure, Hartz is busy with his day-job as CEO of…
We’re building a human-powered helicopter (HPH) to capture the Sikorsky Prize: a monumental challenge that represents a historical aviation first.In order to achieve these goals, we created…
In Japan, sake is the Drink of the Gods, known for inspiring spiritual healing. The ancient brewed rice wine, around for 2,000 years, is ninki ninki (popular) at Chicago’s hottest Japanese…
I want to start this post out by saying I love Coudflare. I think the democratization of IT is the future and Couldflare is positioned to be a huge part of the movement. That said, I’ve been…
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I’ve been reading Literary Machines slowly, whenever I find a blank spot of time. On Saturday I sat outside with coffee and Sneezeburg and re-read Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think, which…
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New Scientist’s Jim Giles calls attention to this freaky fact: that in the future--the rather near future--our interfaces with our gadgets may be our own bodies. “Left your phone at…
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Robert Johnson — Business InsiderWhen reaching out to Alberta oil sands companies before a trip to Canada last month I thought all of them mined oil the same way — they don't. The open mining most…
Let me introduce you to the best language you’ve never heard of: Objectivist-C. Although academic computer scientists have generally dismissed Objectivist-C, it has a zealous following…
I finally became a paying member of Subterranea Britannica this week, a website and historical organization whose interests (and influence) cast a long shadow over this blog's early years. Joining is…
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The buzz of Brooklyn’s BoCoCa neighborhood is a cacophonous mix of old-meets-new. Throw-back butchers, all-the-rage restaurants, inviting art spaces, all- too- proud Brooklyn bars, art…
Okay, let me get one thing out of the way right off the bat: There is absolutely no way for me to write this post without feeling like a jerk. I ve slotted it into the greed category, and that s…
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Photo © Gerhard Kassner After listening to Morag Myerscough’s talk, Daniel van der Velden’s could not have been more opposite. “Memes, Jokes, and Jesters – Political…
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