Over the past few weeks, America’s colleges have sent another class of graduates off into the world. These graduates possess something of inestimable value. Nearly every sensible middle-aged person would give away all their money to be able to go back to age 22 and begin adulthood anew. But,…
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The father is getting drunk, and so are his children. It is the end of the day, and they are celebrating. The children are bringing their work to their father for his approval. When he approves, they drink. They are very talented…
In 2007, when others his age were studying for midterms and living on dorm food, David Karp was busy launching Tumblr, an easy-to-use blogging platform that now hosts 17.5 million blogs and receives about 1.5 billion page views per week. The company has also attracted some $40 million in venture…
Tom Gauld “The Hangover Part II” arrives much like a hangover — bludgeoning, harsh and relentless — yet it’s a notable, even groundbreaking film. It represents the logical evolution of a roughly five-year trend: someone has finally dared to make a mainstream American comedy in which nothing funny…
Life has three certainties: death, taxes and massively successful films getting a sequel. Therefore, it was no surprise that director Todd Phillips was asked to make The Hangover Part II. After all, 2009’s The Hangover not only reset the bar for gross-out comedy, but it was also a film that cost a…
I have a problem. I get anxious anytime I see a notification badge on my iPhone. Be it Mail, Reeder or something else, those little red circles really get under my skin. I check my email constantly, am always refreshing Twitter and love marking RSS feeds as read just to kill the little bastards. I —…
The Y Combinator offices sit at the dead center of Silicon Valley, in Mountain View, on a street called Pioneer Way. Outside, the traffic hums along CA-z85 headed either south to Cupertino or north toward Google headquarters. Inside, the decor of the main room combines modern office (big whiteboard,…
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Twitter announced yesterday that third-party apps will have their access to direct messages (DMs) revoked at the end of the month, and the apps that need DM access — any full-featured Twitter clients, except Twitter’s own — need to start requesting a new type of OAuth token if they still want to use…
[Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt unless otherwise labeled] Anyone who moves around in burgercentric circles knows of the battle that's been brewing for the last few years between the three major heavyweights of the high-quality fast-food burger* world. Of the three, In-N-Out Burger , founded in…
When The Office premiered in March 2005 the national unemployment rate was 5.4%. GDP had grown for 14 consecutive quarters. The Dow was at 10,200 and climbing steadily (Staples had a price of about $22 a share). And yet, though the economy was relatively strong, job satisfaction had dropped to about…
Thrilling finishes have propelled the once-dominant Indians to baseball's best record. Mark Duncan/Associated Press CLEVELAND — Two flags hang from each lamppost on Ontario Street here, outside the home of the best team in baseball. On one side is a head shot of a smiling Cleveland Indians player.…
Any television show put on against American Idol has a hard row to hoe. Put it on mid-season, things get tougher. So maybe that was enough to doom Paul Reiser’s return to TV, no matter how good his show might have been. Reiser complains that NBC didn’t give the show a chance, giving him a bad time…
Here it is. I'm dead, and this is my last post to my blog. In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote—the first part of the process of turning this from an active website to an archive.…
Raised in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan, writer/director/author Paul Feig channeled his awkward adolescent experiences into the NBC show Freaks And Geeks , which aired just 12 episodes in 1999-2000 before being cancelled. The show has since become a cult favorite, and launched the…
Business Class: Freemium for News? Essay 04 May 2011 I had a perspective-changing talk on the subject of pay walls with the chief executive of a big publishing company (no, I can’t tell you who). He asked me what I think about pay walls. I told him what I always say: The main currency of news sites…
Home Blogs Eponymous Rox's blog Error message The page you requested does not exist. For your convenience, a search was performed using the query double. Arrest for Python Double Murder (pic) Mar 31, 2015 - by Eponymous Rox - 0 Comments Investigation into the python double murder of two young…
Michael Combs, second from left, and Dianne Vavra, with their children, Tom and Eve Combs, in their living room in Huntington, N.Y. Yana Paskova for The New York Times IT was a vision of family togetherness out of a Norman Rockwell painting, if Rockwell had worked in the era of WiFi. After a taco…
It’s amazing we are at a point where I will see half a dozen long form reviews of a two dollar application flood my RSS feed. Are we so desperate to save 1-5 dollars that we devote an hour to reading different perspectives on simple cheap apps? The web and the iOS app store have fueled the fire when…
Manny Ramirez, an 18-year-old from the Dominican Republic known for his fast swing and prodigious power, starred at George Washington High School in Upper Manhattan in 1991. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Hero. Cheat. Prodigy. Ingrate. Free spirit. Knucklehead. Hall of Famer. Pariah. Enigma. Manny…
Writing is changing. In the past few years, the mainstream practice has changed significantly. I've been a champion for the way the Internet is changing writing for quite some time, and I'll continue to be, but when I think of the Internet's impact on culture and how that influences young writers, I…
Rapper Snoop Dogg found a novel way to launch his new album this spring: with a star-studded release party in Hollywood that doubled as a showcase for a new fruit-flavored malt beverage called Blast. Conceived by the makers of Colt 45, Blast is the first serious competitor to Four Loko, the…
I recently had the worst comedic experience of my life. My college’s satirical newspaper, The Brown Noser , had been invited to the first “National Intercollegiate Humor Conference” at Princeton University. I was excited to write with my friends and meet funny people from other schools. The…
Growing up there was really only one bullet point on computers that I cared about: clock speed. I knew that the faster the CPU, the faster the computer. This drove my buying decisions (rather, my guidance of my parents buying decisions) for many years — this also lead the buying decisions of many…
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Snide Remarks #623 "Leaving in a Huff" by Eric D. Snider Published on April 11, 2011 Audio MP3 Download audio One thing you may not know about me is that I am a writer. More specifically, I'm a freelance writer. This means I can have several clients at once, work from home in my underwear, and set…
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? "Mr. Williams says that all successful businesspeople make enemies along the way." – The New York Times , October 30, 2010 How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different from how Twitter was actually founded. Mainly, the official version…
I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers and engineers who will propel civilization forward. But why do we make B students sit through these same classes?…
Today’s guest contributor is former Wall Street Journal and Fortune writer, Erik Calonius . Erik collaborated with Dan Ariely on Predictably Irrational and he has a new book out from Penguin Portfolio, Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us. +++ A few…
Brought to you by Seeso. Sign up for for only $3.99 a month . These days Norm Macdonald is all over the place — he has a Comedy Central special , a Twitter feud with Steve Martin , a profile in the New York Times , and a new show that premieres tonight. So what better time to revisit one of his most…
I recently stumbled across screenshots of old websites of mine and was hurled into a state of reminiscent shock. I knew they were bad, but wow they were outstandingly horrible (redeemed only by their microformats support! I kid, I kid). Several years and a few Georgia Tech design and HCI courses…
Back in 2001, Coudal Partners was on the ropes fiscally. And according to Jim Coudal, it’s the best thing that could have happened. "After 9/11, we lost a lot of business. And we were in trouble. It wasn’t any problem of ours. One company got bought and other people cut back on their spending," he…
Editor's note: Elizabeth Merrill's story on Brian Wilson marks the debut of "Curtain Call," a new weekly ESPN.com baseball feature that will spotlight a player, team or trend in the game. LONDONDERRY, N.H. -- The yearbook is 11 years old and stored behind a counter at the public library. Years…
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