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Orvillecopter: half cat, half machine
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Kickstarter - Safecast X Kickstarter Geiger Counter
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White Americans’ heads are getting bigger
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Dad's Gifts, Part 1
What fan would want dirt from every ballpark?
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I felt that had Mr. Zuckerberg worn a jacket instead of a hoodie (showing [investors] that he respected them enough to “dress up”), he would have made a statement to them that he cares about their needs, and will act in their best interest. He chose not to make that statement, and the current share price demonstrates that investors have chosen not to support Facebook shares.
Wedbush securities analyst Michael Pachter • Blaming Facebook’s IPO flop on Mark Zuckerberg’s choice of jacket. Well, okay, he didn’t really blame it all on Zuck’s clothes: “The flop is 100% a function of a supply/demand imbalance,” Pachter wrote. “The company and its underwriters misjudged demand, and simply issued too many shares. There is no question that had this deal been 1/3 the size, the market would have absorbed it and the deal price would have held.” source (via • follow)Posted on May 23, 2012 via ShortFormBlog with 21 notes
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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Posted on April 8, 2012 via YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF with 811 notes
Source: youmightfindyourself
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Knight News Challenge: OpenChicago.org
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Create points of connection between Chicago programmers, open gov enthusiasts, and city officials by building on existing habits.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
No, though it was born out of a…
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The 20 or so police cars in front of State St. Macy’s makes me think someone other than Santa is visiting.
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So when’s the parade to celebrate the end of the war in Iraq?
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“Not just to advance programming but to enhance public’s feeling of ownership in #publicradio.” @knightfdn invests @npr http://t.co/22g0PnSN
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