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The ice storm that shut down Atlanta this week was a "fiasco" that was "manmade from start to finish," according to Atlanta Magazine 's Rebecca Burns, writing for Politico . But w e have to note that, in part, the men who made the fiasco were white ones. One of the recurring reasons given for people…

Tampa's a defensive city by nature. Where the rest of the country sees Miami as a city with a very specific cultural identity and Orlando as a city with a specific corporate one, Tampa is just ... wel

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Anytime anybody in the universe says something negative about Microsoft, Brad Thorne* loses it. He fires up Twitter: “You’re fucking pathetic!... You have your head so far up your ass!... I can’t wait

If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it's absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pi

“Can I help you with something?” said a pleasant English-accented voice. It was 4:46 p.m. on a Saturday and I’d been staring -- face contorted with confusion -- at the buzzer directory of 12 East 14th

Stay on Top of Enterprise Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community When my wife and I went backpacking around Europe 10 years ago, we made a vow to each

Climate Central’s Surging Seas project highlights land lost to a rising ocean, not land that remains, a change of visual emphasis. Stamen Design Like many designers, Eric Rodenbeck has had a long rela

A federal court dealt a deadly blow to net neutrality on Tuesday by striking down the FCC's open Internet rules and practically inviting broadband providers to offer preferential treatment to companie

Matt Rourke/AP Images A 12th-grader wrote a college admissions essay about wanting to pursue a career in oceanography. Let’s call her Isabella. A few months ago, we edited it in my classroom during lu

I n 1999, Shiloh Christian and Junction City played in the third round of the Arkansas high school football Class AA playoffs. Shiloh quickly fell behind 24-0, then 38-14, but rallied to win 70-64 on

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A merica is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of t

Next week, LG will unveil new televisions running webOS , the ill-fated operating system it acquired in last February . Although LG is expected to retain some form of webOS’ interface , exactly what t

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Once again we see Floridian speed in a pro-style scheme matched against a bruising, power-option team, much like the classic Nebraska and Miami contests in the ‘80s and ‘90s. This is a matchup with a

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This article suggests *GASP* that the current SEC was modeled after 90's #FSU @TomahawkNation RT "@usatodaynews: http://t.co/wj1xSKmD1K"

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Yes, these two iconoclasts have disrupted multiple industries, but TED curator Chris Anderson goes much deeper and argues that what Musk and Jobs really have in common is a rare form of design thinking powered by unfettered conviction. When future historians report human progress during the 21st…

Stay on Top of Enterprise Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community If anything, in 2013 it became even more fashionable for some of our fellow scribes a

When I was a child in the 1950s, my friends and I had two educations. We had school (which was not the big deal it is today), and we also had what I call a hunter-gatherer education. We played in mixe

If you’re building a product, you have to be great at saying no. Not “maybe” or “later”. The only word is no. Building a great product isn’t about creating tons of tactically useful features which are tangentially related. It’s about delivering a cohesive product with well defined parameters. As…

This Life The Stories That Bind Us Families may want to create a mission statement similar to the ones many companies use to identify their core values. Credit... Sarah Williamson I hit the breaking p

This @jdickerson essay about how it's OK to chronicle your life is really moving. Need to get notebook! http://slate.me/1i0d6I5

There’s a really pernicious myth out there that the U.S. secretly has a super-generous welfare state. Just this summer, in fact, the Cato Institute was claiming that “welfare” provides some D.C. residents with the equivalent of a $50,820-a-year salary. That study got thoroughly decimated by other…

One gift that I won’t be giving to loved ones this holiday season is music, sadly. In the age of streaming services like Spotify and Pandora, music has become so readily available that it’s lost its t

The Google car knows every turn. It never gets drowsy or distracted, or wonders who has the right-of-way. Illustration by Harry Campbell Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and

The cell phone industry in 2005 was the perfect example of a hairy Google-size problem. The software industry for mobile phones was one of the most dysfunctional in all technology. There wasn’t enough

I have a house and, like most houses, it’s an unfinished work. There are cracks in the paint. There are piles of old clothes and shoes exploding out of the laundry room, which doubles as a storage roo

The Next Web: Google’s 2013: The evolution of Android, Chromebooks, Google+, YouTube, Google Glass and more. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwhoWn2wM

The virtual mug of Esteban Winsmore: Second Life's most entertaining menace. A decade after its launch, the online virtual world of Second Life (SL) has devolved into a realm where digital avatars eng

Say hi to Lucy. Lucy is part of Generation Y, the generation born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. She's also part of a yuppie culture that makes up a large portion of Gen Y. I have a term fo