Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Who's Driving This Thing?

"From the moment when they made us bring up the corpses, and we understood that we wouldn't get out of there alive, we reflected on what we could do," Motke Zeidel remembered. And so Zeidel and his fellows plotted their escape.
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Morning · Tue, Feb 28
A WAY OUT
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
The Holocaust's Great Escape
smithsonianmag.com
"From the moment when they made us bring up the corpses, and we understood that we wouldn't get out of there alive, we reflected on what we could do," Motke Zeidel remembered. And so Zeidel and his fellows plotted their escape.
EASING THE PATH
The People Who Help You Die
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India comes near the bottom of the global league in access to end-of-life care, but one doctor is looking to change that by helping the terminally ill die with dignity and comfort at home.
LONDON BUYERS' CLUB
How A Homeless Man Prevented Thousands Of HIV Infections
buzzfeed.com
In the space of 12 months, the number of gay men in London being diagnosed with HIV dropped by 40%. Across England it was down by a third. And in large part, Greg Owen was to thank.
WITH SHAPR | SPONSORED
This App Just Made Networking Not Suck (And No, It's Not Tinder)
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What Tinder did for dating, this company is doing for networking. Shapr connects you with all the inspiring people you live near but would never meet. The result? More inspired, meaningful and connected collaboration.
WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?
THE YOUNG PRESIDENT
Does Stephen Miller Speak For Trump? Or Vice Versa?
bloomberg.com
The 31-year-old is a driving force behind the White House's policies.
ALMOST SMART CARS
Play Around With Some Simple Self-Taught, Self-Driving Cars In Your Web Browser
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Maybe you think it's inevitable that we'll have self-driving cars soon — that they'll be safer, and capable of sharing the road with humans. Actually designing that AI can be tough, as this little 2D demonstration shows.
JONY IVE VS THE GOOGLE BORG
The Difference Between Apple And Google, Illustrated By Their Patent Structures
fastcodesign.com
Apple is driven largely by a centralized development structure, stemming from its fabled design studio, whereas Google has a more distributed, open-source approach to new products.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THEY JUST LIKE BARKING
'All Bark And No Bite,' Illustrated To Perfection By Dogs
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Don't open that gate — those dogs will tear each other apart! Oh, no, they're fine actually. Couldn't be bothered.
IN THE NEWS
Hundreds Allege Sexual Harassment At Kay And Jared Jewelry Company
Female Engineer Sues Tesla, Describing A Culture Of 'Pervasive Harassment'
Apple Reportedly Considering Swapping iPhone 8's Lightning Connector For USB-C
Shell Oil Made A Film About The Dangers Of Climate Change In 1991 — And Then Hid It
If Wednesday is hump day, then Tuesday must be an upward climb. Just think about that in a positive way, like a launchpad.

Monday, February 27, 2017

And It's Another Day Of Sun?

Warren Beatty got confused and everything went off the rails. But now "Moonlight" has its rightful Oscar.
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Morning · Mon, Feb 27
THE OSCARS: WAIT, WHAT?
'THIS IS NOT A JOKE'
Watch The Craziness At The Oscars As 'La La Land' Was Mistakenly Awarded Best Picture
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Warren Beatty got confused and everything went off the rails. But now "Moonlight" has its rightful Oscar.
BETTER THAN FICTION
The Oscars' Unprecedented Mix-Up, Explained
vox.com
An envelope screw-up made Oscar history — and vindicated Marisa Tomei. (Seriously.)
GARY RULES
Before All That Chaos, Gary From Chicago Stole The Show
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Not everyone loved Jimmy Kimmel's bit at the Oscars where he brought a surprised busload of tourists onto the stage, ​but everyone agreed that one of those tourists — aka Gary From Chicago — was awesome.
NO, THE OTHER WHITE HOST NAMED JIMMY
Watch Jimmy Kimmel's Full Opening Monologue From The Oscars
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A Full List Of The Winners
usatoday.com
FROM THE DIGG STORE
Want A Job? Learn To Code
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Apparently, coding is the next blue-collar job frontier. Here's everything you need to learn the basics, without the massive amounts of student debt.
OLD DESIGN DIES HARD
TOP SHELF
How Ikea's Billy Bookcase Took Over The World
bbc.com
Originally sketched on the back of a napkin, there are now roughly 60 million of the bookcases in the world, nearly one for every 100 people.
MINOR KEY
BlackBerry's New Keyboard Phone Is Doomed To Be A Noble Failure
theverge.com
BlackBerry is trying something interesting, but it almost certainly won't pan out.
NOT SO FINAL, IS IT?
The Future Of 'Final Fantasy 15'
polygon.com
How FF15 director Hajime Tabata is making his game a living platform for embracing the next steps of game design and technology.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
THIS IS ALL WRONG
Back In '95, Pixar Wanted Billy Crystal To Play Buzz Lightyear So Badly They Created This Demo
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They took a couple of his lines from "When Harry Met Sally" to make this monstrosity. We are so very glad Crystal turned them down.
IN THE NEWS
'Aliens' And 'Twister' Star Bill Paxton Dead At 61
White House Press Secretary Conducts Random 'Phone Check' Of Staff, And Other Trump News From Today
75-100 Headstones Toppled At Jewish Cemetery In Philadelphia
Kim Jong Un 'Ordered' Half Brother's Killing, According To South Korea
The Oscars may have gotten screwed up last night, but hey, it's another day of sun!

Sunday, February 26, 2017

The Return Of Easy Rider

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