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Quake shakes Judge Judy taping

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Extreme Foreclosure: Homeless Edition

“Worst. Episode. Ever.” Elvish: Anfaika....

Nerdspotting: Apple cofounder wonders if “The Price Is...

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“At its launch, Profiles was immediately one of may favorite...”
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The Three Survivors

McCain vs Obama: Your Future Tax Bill

“Defendant Nicholas spiked the drinks of others with MDMA...”
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The Fortunate 50

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Cocaine found on 99.9% of UK banknotes

Horseracing's Winner, Really a Loser

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“Etched in each of the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s urinals,...”
— Fly Marks The Spot, UChiBLOGo

San Francisco Proposal for the George W Bush...

“IT CAN BE AN IRONIC TWIST OF FATE FOR PEOPLE TO ESCAPE THE...”
— Western Washington Weather...

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Am I the only one who would have never guessed Flickr was...

The Coolest Business Plan Ever

What can Big Brown do for you?

Behind The Scenes of Google Scalability

“You saw how hard Chris fought for air,” the boss allegedly...”
— Peter W Knox: From The Week...

“Customers who booked flights on the Aer Lingus website on...”
— The Luck of the Irish

“It really wasn’t like an elected, ordained...”
— Marissa Mayer: Totally Kidding...

eBay Snoring, Skype Roaring

Delta-NW and the Craziness of Company...

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This can't be called "hacking", when it's...

“As I’ve said repeatedly, stock market terms do not...”
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Illegitimate

Google App Engine can't handle demand for...

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— Reed Hastings, Founder/CEO of...

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“Twenty-one years ago, a suburban Seattle elementary...

“After six years of anonymity, the architects of...”
— The NBA’s Top Gossips

“DO NOT USE THIS FUNCTION!! Someone added this, and they...”
— android.content.ContentResolver...

“But there is one Mercedes that doesn’t need to search...”
— How Apple Got Everything Right...

Dollars tough to sell on streets of...

Eliot Spitzer's Ashley Alexandra Dupre Cashes...

Magic Eye Through Text

“There’s this one casino, one of their high rollers...”
— Casino Insider Tells (Almost)...

“I see Trump buildings everywhere which just makes me cry....”
— Howard Lindzon

“In Columbus,MS & wondering how somebody who’s in...”
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An elusive billionaire gives away his good...

Where to cut the cords...

Here, terrorists, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. If you want to cause a lot of...

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Live Sovereign Wealth Fund Performance

Berkshire Hathaway 2007 Annual Report (PDF)

“We decided to show ads only on certain pages, only to the...”
— Matt Mullenweg, about ads on...

“To be clear, I think it’s great that Google is trying to...”
— GrandCentral Homeless Stunt...

“I have simple pleasures. I play bridge online for 12 hours a...”
— Warren Buffett, on playing...

I'm in ur accounts, and I don't know why

Twitter: Timeline Update Oddity

“The following afternoon, Mayer was interviewed first by Amit...”
— Googirl

“Apple spent $550,000 on Jobs’ airplane expenses...”
— Steve Jobs: Frequent Flier...

Free! Why $0.00 Is The Future of Business

The Trouble With Quants

rush

Founders take aim at a bigger target

2.2 Billion Text Messages for Valentine's...

How Americans Spend Their Money

Sniff browser history for "improved" user...

Facebook 'friends' desert French rogue...

“While Crate and Barrel prides itself in keeping its own...”
—  Crate and Barrel email

“A short quiz: If you plan to eat hamburgers throughout your...”
— Warren Buffett, Letter to...

“People actually call [quants] “black box trading,” because...”
— n+1: Interview with a Hedge...

Learning to kill...

CanSpec.scala: An Example of BDD in Scala...

Great profile on Tumblr founder David Karp in...

Trader Made Billions on Subprime

“How can someone who’s so socially awkward make a...”
— Amy on Zuck’s 60 Minutes...

Melinda Gates goes public

Bill Gates: the exit interview

MapReduce Stats

As much as I’m sick of the MapReduce hype, these are impressive stats: 100,000 MapReduce jobs...

Lone trader caused 100 dollar price for oil

“So I asked employee C11329 to be transfered to her manager....”
— Could Tech Support Undo Palm?

“One particular year [at Comdex in Las Vegas], I was on my...”
— Mark Cuban

“lots of people talking about aapl. i almost...

del.icio.us is reporting 404 errors this morning. Oops.

Inc.com: 30 Under 30

“Unable to afford a high-speed Internet connection, Musk ran...”
— Entrepreneur of the Year: Elon...

“They were the nerdy ones. A little off. Quiet. They spent...”
— top ten sexy geeks 2007, by...

In less than two years’ time, after the opening of...

Evaluating ideas and then successfully...

Two great articles from two great sources have popped up over the last couple days. Will it fly?...

Squidoo is profitable

“Don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design...”
— Linus Torvalds...

“DeHorrible is a Rails proxy that RESTifies SimpleDB. Or if...”
— DeHorrible: RESTifying...

“GETSful (adj.) Derogatory 1. Any web services...”
— Bitsful | GETSful

“Next Bezos went to Shaw, who said he was sorry to lose such...”
— Time 1999 Person of the Year:...

“Goldman’s trading home run was blasted from an obscure...”
— How Goldman Won Big On...

Autonomous Foosball table

Message From the Web

“The German company DaimlerChrysler offloaded 80.1% of...”
— Top 10 Worst Biz Deals of...

HAppS vs RoR vs ErlyWeb vs… (of course flawed, but...

Google search busts insurance fraudster who...

Google: New Software "Tastes Great"

How Web Development Works

The PayPal mafia

College Football Polls Aren't What You Think

“Seeing the word “enterprise” in the file paths...”
— Taking  Good Thing Too Far

What everyone is thinking...

Person A: wow, mark zuckerberg
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Person B: what a cocky bitch

“I had the head of Cutter on and he said: ‘Look, we have $60...”
— Maria Bartiromo

Facebook: More Popular Than Porn

“(?:(?:\r\n)?[ \t])*(?:(?:(?:[^()@,;:\”.\[\]...”
— Mail::RFC822::Address

Larry and Sergey won’t respect you in the morning.

“I hesitated sending this email for quite some time and had...”
— Iggy Fanlo, in a letter to his...

Obscene Losses (YouPorn/Vivid Profile)

Bear CEO's Handling Of Crisis Raises Issues

“I have a friend who worked for Bally many years ago now,...”
— comp.lang.forth

Hey! Maybe the Facebook targeting engine is finally...

A380's Inaugural Flight

“I have never been in anything like this in the air before in my life,” said Australian...

“Right now, it’s a pile of concrete and steel, but once...”
— Sheelah Kolhatka on Mukesh...