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If Yahoo buys Tumblr...
In 2007, I was drinking coffee in Marco’s livingroom/dining room/office. He told me he and David had launched...
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Street Faces by Aurélien Fontanet
When you laugh, the world laughs with you. Often times literally with creepy faces that appear...
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Mark Ghuneim and David Peris dug up this delicious chestnut from January, 1999: “Internet search...
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Patrick Stewart’s incredibly personal and powerful story...
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For readers with a rustic aesthetic: reclaimed wood Tribeca Shelf by GreenFurnitureDesign.
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Yahoo paid billions for a somewhat-Tumblr-like site back in the '90s
- $3.6B was the amount Yahoo bought Geocities for back in 1999. Remember...
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In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest...
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The final piece of the spire at One World Trade Center is lifted into place in New York, May 10, 2013. The...
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Chrome Night Citizen messenger bag. Build quality seems like a step above Timbuk2 — it’s just a really handsome bag.
Table for one. Middle eastern lunch plate. Good to be back in the bay, getting back in the grind. (at La Méditerranée Fillmore)
The Cost of Uber’s Free Rides
The car-service start-up company Uber is “well aware that not everyone ‘can drop twenty-five dollars to get home from a random night out,’” and they’re soon hoping to offer more mid-level transportation, like they provided at SXSW this year, across the country. Here, Matt Buchanan looks at the business behind their plan: http://nyr.kr/XO9s9H
Interesting to see how companies and apps like Uber, Sidecar and Lyft will change the hired car landscape in the next few years. Will taxi companies step up their game or will they get left behind?
This is my favorite cat gif.
teehee.
genova delicatessen
We had ten minutes to spare before my monthly prenatal checkup so we stopped at Genova Deli to pick up some sandwiches. The line was strangely long (at 4 o’clock in the afternoon!) so we just grabbed some premade Honey Turkey sandwiches from the cafe. They were really good! A solid sandwich. I couldn’t pinpoint why it was so good until it dawned on me that I haven’t had mayo on a sandwich in years. Good stuff.
The findings, compiled by the Equity and Excellence Commission — an independent group consisting of more than two dozen leaders in the education field — further estimate that racial disparities in education cost the country about $50 trillion in unfulfilled earning potential. If African-American and Hispanic students performed at the same level as white students for the next 80 years, in other words, they would contribute that staggering amount, more than three times the current GDP, to the economy.
“Microsoft is said to be the second-largest employer of anthropologists in the world, behind only the U.S. government.”
Anthropology Inc. - Graeme Wood - The Atlantic (via thisistheverge)
What the what?
(via courtenaybird)
removing contact paper
Helpful household tip: If you are trying to remove old contact paper from shelves, drawers or cabinets, hold a hair dryer on high heat for 10-20 seconds over a spot and slowly peel the paper away. Works like a charm!
kitchen win
I made cinnamon rolls from scratch for the first time today.
The TB of free cloud storage is awesome! Hope that’s the way these ultralight SSD laptops all go. The 4G option also makes the husband’s prediction that laptops will make a comeback more likely.
