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Man visiting D.C. says Uber driver took him on wild ridewashingtonpost.com
CEO says he was "kidnapped" by an Uber driver and taken on a "high-speed" chase. -
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Prostitute gave Google exec a fatal heroin dose, police saysfgate.com
Police called it murder. A married Google executive and a high-priced call girl allegedly had an encounter in November on a Santa Cruz yacht that left the executive dead from a heroin overdose. But as the case came to light Wednesday and made national ... -
Building a Community for High Schoolers Who Codefacebookstories.com
What started as a small Facebook Group to meet people at a hackathon event turned into a community of nearly 1,800 people passionate about programming. -
Bill Murray’s Never-Released 1984 Sci-Fi Comedy Is Now Onlineslate.com
Hardcore Bill Murray fans may have read about his 1984 film Nothing Lasts Forever, an off-kilter sci-fi film directed by Saturday Night Live writing alum Tom Schiller (“La Dolce Gilda”). It was never released, but Dangerous Minds points out that it’s s... -
The Era of Notabilitynefariousplots.com
This plot depicts the birth years of people with Wikipedia articles and thus gives a sense of the distribution of notable people throughout history. Even when adjusted for birthrate (yielding the percentage of newborns each year who will go on to be n... -
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RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12MPHengadget.com
Let's nip your enthusiasm right in the bud: No, these motorized skates you see above aren't actually powered by rockets. Now hold on, don't close the -
Judge Shoots Down ‘Bitcoin Isn’t Money’ Argument in Silk Road Trial | Threat Level | WIREDwired.com
The government and legal community may still be arguing over whether bitcoin can be defined as "money." But the judge presiding over the landmark Silk Road drug case has declared that it's at least close enough to get you locked up for money laundering. -
The New Business Casual Is Still Uptightop-talk.blogs.nytimes.com
When your office values beer and chitchat over suits and ties, what counts as “professional” behavior? And is its definition even more restrictive than before? -
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github/dmcagithub.com
dmca - Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Additional information about... -
Introducing Dropbox Syncblog.pixelapse.com
Today, we’re excited to announce that Pixelapse now supports Dropbox sync! We’ve heard time and again that many of you rely on Dropbox heavily, making Dropbox integration one of our most requested features. We’re thrilled to be able to share this with ... -
Alleged escort charged in Google exec's fatal heroin overdoselatimes.com
The woman accused of being a high-priced escort who administered a lethal dose of heroin to a former tech executive on his yacht in Santa Cruz will not be charged with murder in the case, but still faces manslaughter, prostitution and drug counts, pros... -
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Design’s too important to be left to designers - Virgin.comvirgin.com
In times of change we need new alternatives, new ideas. Tim Brown takes inspiration from the great designer and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but challenges us to rethink design and how we do it, post the industrial age. -
Sliding Friction on Wet and Dry Sandjournals.aps.org
Adding a small amount of water to sand can significantly reduce the sliding friction. -
What Qualities Make a Good Startup Engineer?theeffectiveengineer.com
Not every good engineer makes a good startup engineer. Some of the most promising candidates that I’ve interviewed in the past six years across three startups (Ooyala, Quora, and now Quip) would …