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In 2012, Dave Morin was a tech industry celebrity. His start-up firm, Path, was nearing the top of the iTunes App Store charts. Britney Spears and other A-listers stopped by his company’s San Francisco office. But once Ms. Spears left the building, the hard work of building a company began.

The problem isn’t that the justices are old fogeys. The problem is that the justices were groomed in a field that emphasizes reasoning by analogy. And analogies were critical in these cases.

For the millions of people, U.S. citizens and non-citizens alike, who cross into the United States each year, there are very few limitations for Customs and Border Protection when it comes to the agency’s ability to search those travelers’ electronic devices.

mapsontheweb:

Animated History of the Boston Subway-MBTA. Individual sheets and timeline at the source.

Shameless self promotion.

shittier:

niggaimdeadass:

Cleanse me Lord and rid me of this white skin

Kids are fucking horrific i don’t want any of them 

themarvelageofcomics:

This 1942 newsrack includes copies of MARVEL MYSTERY COMICS and HUMAN TORCH, among others.

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liftedandgiftedd:

i’m laughing wayyy harder than i should be omg

Created by UK inventor Alex Shirley-Smith, Tentsile is an ingenious portable suspended treehouse that installs much like a hammock while offering the convenience of a multi-person tent. Simply locate any three anchor points and install the tent above ground where you’re immediately clear of threats from rain and a plethora of ground-based creepy crawly things.

The Tentsile system was first conceived by Shirley-Smith in 2010 and after an early concept went absurdly viral around the web in 2012 the company hired another designer, Kirk Kirchev. The team worked through a series of 14 prototypes before finally releasing their first production model, the Tentsile Stingray, at the end of last year. You can learn more about this backpackable treehouse over on their website. (via My Modern Met, This Isn’t Happiness)

Courtney shared this story from Super Opinionated.

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lord-kitschener:

#same

This week, Airbnb told hosts in Portland and Multnomah County to stop collecting taxes themselves. Instead, the website will start adding the city and county’s 11.5 percent hotel tax to all reservations booked on the site and paying the tax quarterly.

According to the company’s website, Portland is the first city in the country to strike such a tax collection deal. The company says it’s working on agreements with San Francisco and New York.

As part of the deal the Portland City Council is working on a code revision that would make short-term home rentals legal, if residents obtain a $180 permit and install fire alarms.

The deal will only apply to single family homes, not apartments, and people who wish to rent more than two rooms to travelers would have to apply for a $4,130 Bed and Breakfast permit.

She also asked for advice on the /r/Portland Reddit community, then decided to submit an invoice for use of her photo to IFC. She since has heard from an employee that the company is looking into the issue.

Redditors are now offering Conrad advice on how much money she should ask for. The community agrees she should  start at $1,000 and negotiate from there.

Someone’s eating a Luigi stare right now ⊟

Agnes Mikucka made this intimidating Luigi cake for her sister, who is probably thinking really hard right now about what she did. She knows.

BUY Mario Kart 8, Mario Kart 7, upcoming games

If anyone remembers, a while ago I got sent an ask as to why Elrond didn’t have the Eagles fly the ring to Mordor. And my friend wilypixel deemed my answer hilarious enough to merit a comic. 

You’re welcome.

willigula:

Under Allied Flags, a series of covers for Hearst’s Magazine showing women wearing uniforms of the allied nations, 1917

(via carlylehold via beautifulcentury)

time to go shopppinnnngggg

Maurice du Saxe - Charles-François Dumouriez - Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette - François Marceau


Lazare Hoche - Jean-Baptiste Kléber - Louis Charles Antoine Desaix - Jean Lannes


Joachim Murat - André Masséna- Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult - Michel Ney

lecomtesanstete:

Gallery of great French officers (pt. 2), Imagerie Pellerin, 1860.

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time to go shopping part 2?

Women are too hard to animate, or so they (Ubisoft) say. 

So anyone up for the challenge?

This jam has only one rule: Female lead character.

Any game with female lead qualifies, even a game you made before, 

just make sure you have the rights to publish it.

Deadline July 3rd.

Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber and Ayn Rand superfan, thinks regulation is for suckers, and his company has been slow to expand background checks and tighten the screening process as it ravenously expands. Surprise: people are beating Uber's weak rules.

ASPEN, Colorado—In the first minute of House of Cards, protagonist Frank Underwood kills a dog. But the scene may not have happened at all if the show’s creators had allowed their better judgment to intervene.

“Early on, there were a few people, actually on the creative team, they said, ‘You can’t kill a dog. You’ll lose half your viewership in the first 30 seconds,’” recalled Beau Willimon, the lead writer of House of Cards, in a discussion at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Willimon said he took the concerns to David Fincher, the show’s director: “So I go to Fincher and I go, ‘I’m really into this opening. I think it really works for the opening of the show. But people are telling me we’ll lose half our viewers in the first 30 seconds.’

“And he goes, ‘I don’t give a shit.’

“I go, ‘I don’t, either. Fuck it, let’s do it.’”

The scene came to define House of Cards as a provocative work in the style of other dramas with male anti-heroes like HBO’s The Sopranos and AMC’s Breaking Bad. It helped establish Netflix, which carries the show, as a home for high-quality TV.

“If you weren’t going to be able to survive this dog strangling,” Willimon noted, “then this show probably isn’t for you.”

Many viewers did, in fact, stop watching House of Cards after watching Frank kill his neighbor’s dog, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said recently. “A lot of people just—click, turned off. When we watch the stats, it’s like this,” he said, pointing to the floor.

Hastings said he told Fincher what the data showed. Fincher responded, “Don’t ever tell me that again.”

The scene’s triumph over data and better judgment is a good example of what defines recently successful shows on networks like Netflix and its competitors, which Hastings says are HBO, Showtime, FX, and AMC. They are usually driven by auteurs like Willimon and Fincher who are given more-or-less free creative rein. It’s a high-risk, high-reward strategy that is well known to film but new to TV.

In Aspen, Willimon was interviewed by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who is himself backing an adult animated series that will soon appear on Netflix. Eisner said the show, BoJack Horseman, originally included one character saying, “That’s as bad as ten 9/11′s in a row.” He wanted it cut, but the show’s creators tried to go around his back to Netflix, which defended the line, according to Eisner.

He insisted, though, and the line is now, “That’s as bad as 10 adult circumcisions in a row.”

“I grew up in an era of research, endless research,” Eisner said. “And all you thought about was likability.”

Willimon had earlier said that wasn’t a concern to him. “One thing I’ve said about likability, and Netflix got mad at me for saying it: Someone asked me about the likability of my characters, and I said, verbatim: ‘Fuck likability. I don’t give two shits whether someone likes my characters.’ I do care if they’re attracted to them.”

Or as Frank Underwood says as he puts down the dog, “Moments like this require someone who will act, do the unpleasant thing, the necessary thing.”

Read more from the Willimon-Eisner interview at Glass.

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“It’s like Mr. Darcy; he’s cold, unapproachable, not interested in the opposite sex, which makes people interested in him,” he said. “I think it’s the oldest recipe in the book.”

- Mark Gatiss, on Sherlock’s appeal ( x )

I’m like… are we reading the same shit?

….Mark Gatiss, go home. You are drunk. DRUNK.

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