June 2011
...: Village Voice Staff Stages Walk-Out →
realvillagevoice:
At exactly 4pm this afternoon, a creaking of chairs could be heard across the 3rd floor of 36 Cooper Square, and then an eerie silence as over 50 union employees and sympathizers walked off the job at the Village Voice, as a sign of dissatisfaction over the lack of movement by management at…
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“We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are...”
– Stefan Savage, the computer science professor from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering who led the student-run project: House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera via @newsycombinator.
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Post Ride to Montauk Email
The Westhampton Rest Stop
Last year we ran short of food there, so boy were we ready this year! We stocked up and then added even more, just to make sure.
And then late Friday night one of our drivers decided to drive the truck holding the Westhampton rest stop supplies on to the Meadowbrook Parkway. You know, parkway. Trucks are not allowed on parkways in NY. (Yes, there are a VERY few...
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Mac OS X 10.6.8 Now Available →
parislemon:
Aka, the last one before OS X Lion.
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Watch“You are about eight times more likely to die walking drunk than driving drunk…. Friends don’t let friends walk drunk.” -Stephen Dubner
He doesn’t mention how much more likely you are to kill someone else driving though.
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“Bikes are New York fringe? Email your friends. Ask how many of them own bikes....”
– NYC and Bikes: Rubber Meets Road - WSJ.com (via felixsalmon)
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It's that time of the year
zwsop:
Hey everybody! This Thursday I’ll start my quest to bring home a bracelet in the 2011 World Series of Poker. I hope you’ll follow along and cheer me on, I’ll need all the support I can get!
Check it.
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“Yet the phone number remains stubbornly fixed with a single carrier and single...”
– iMessage, Skype, Google Voice, and the death of the phone number
Best thing I’ve read in months. Read that headline again: the death of the phone number.
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“Like most airline passengers, you probably have serious doubts about those...”
– Is It Really Safe to Use a Cellphone on a Plane?
Dislike.
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DAMN! and Battle For Brooklyn @ Brooklyn Film Fest...
kickstarter:
The 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival kicked off last week and closes this Sunday, June 12th. (And as we bet a bunch of you BK-ers already know…) This Saturday, June 11th at 5:30p, Aaron Fisher-Cohen’s DAMN!, a documentary about Rent Is 2 Damn High gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMIllen, will be playing at IndieScreen, followed by Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky’s Battle For...
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“Next time you think to yourself, “Don’t forget to…,” just pull out your...”
– Apple - See new features included in iOS 5.
A hook to add reminders with location that can be triggered in this way would lead to some incredible things but this is really big as is.
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“There are billions of photographs on Facebook’s servers. As your Facebook...”
– Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users – facial recognition is enabled
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“Groupon has a great tagline in “the fastest growing company in history,” but...”
– Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal
Also, definitely read the Yipit team’s fantastic analysis of Groupon’s S-1.
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“Hey, guys. It’s Joe. I’m glad we were able to get our IPO pricing...”
– Dan Primack “trying to imagine the message Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy left for his bankers at Morgan Stanley.”
Pandora Media: Hey, look at us
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Watchcollegehumor:
Last night Jon Stewart went on a hilarious New York rant on Trump’s disrespectful decision to take Sarah Palin to an inauthentic Times Square pizza chain.
Epic.
