VC Parody Video Packs A Lifetime Of Awful Into Just Five Minutes
This painful and awkward video was published before the holidays, but in all the hustle and bustle you might not have seen it. Nevertheless, you really do need to see this, because it is quite...
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If You're Working For A Startup, You're Probably Going To Get Screwed
Henry Ward, the CEO of eShares, recently published a pretty interesting essay on Medium about what a terrible job most startups do when it comes to keeping track of options and equity grants, and how...
View ArticleAnother Reason To Not Buy The Apple Watch
They're going to put ads on them. Read more...
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Huge Apple Fan Says Something Critical About Apple
Marco Arment is well-known and well-regarded in Apple fanblogger circles. He's both a developer (he was CTO at Tumblr, and then created Instapaper) and a pundit whose articles often contain footnotes,...
View ArticleHas Jeff Bezos Lost His Mind?
That in a nutshell is the gist of a new 8-million-word article in Fast Company that starts out blaming Bezos for the failure of the Fire Phone and then says the Fire Phone is just one of several...
View ArticleAre Yahoo News Editors Getting Passive Aggressive?
An old pal just found something startling on his Yahoo homepage and sent in the following screengrab of the Yahoo homepage, featuring an incredibly negative article about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer...
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Pando Wants To Make Silicon Valley Less Awful, Which Is Just ... Wow
At first I though this must be a week for hoaxes. First was Troy Hitch, the guy who claims he's going to wear Oculus goggles non-stop for a year, which has to be a prank, especially since he's the guy...
View ArticleBill Gates Drinks Poop Water
"Have I got an investment for you," Bill Gates whispers, his eyes feverish with excitement. Or is it the poop water? Only time will tell. Read more...
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A Great Reason to Not Buy Bitcoin: $5 Million Stolen Without a Trace
Bitstamp, a European web service that allows users to buy and sell bitcoin in exchange for "real" currencies like dollars or yen, was just taken for $5 million. Nobody knows by exactly whom, or...
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Study: Men Who Post Tons of Selfies Have Psychopathic Tendencies
Vindication is yours! If you've been demanding that your friends put down the selfie stick and stop posting every goddamn photo of themselves online because it's probably a sign of severe mental...
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Angel Investor Ben Parr Making Money In Men's Rooms At CES
There are few people whose careers have taken a worse nosedive than mine, but Ben Parr might be one of them. At the very least I can say that Ben and I have been on similar downward trajectories, and...
View ArticleHere's How You Do The New Steve Ballmer Dance
There's a brand new dance craze that all the tech kids need to start doing. Stand in front of a mirror at midnight, wave your arms like this, and say the words, "Developers, developers, developers,...
View ArticleWhen Numbers Don't Tell The Whole Story
Evan Williams wrote a really good piece on Medium this week about the value of Twitter versus the value of Instagram, and in a wider sense, the difficulty or even impossibility of measuring the value...
View ArticleHappy New Year -- Let's Talk About Human Extinction
Stephen Hawking sees the danger of artificial intelligence. So does Elon Musk. Oxford professor Nick Bostrom, head of the Future of Humanity Institute, has written a whole book about it. Even the...
View ArticleRobert Crumb: You Don't Have Journalists In America Anymore
Robert Crumb talking to the New York Observer about the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and how Americans don't appreciate satire — and then this nugget:Read more...
View ArticleGet Ready For Cyberwar
More attacks like Sony are inevitable, and the Sony hack "was just a ham sandwich compared with what's coming," writes Kevin Maney of Newsweek:Read more...
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How Not to Smuggle 94 iPhones Through Chinese Customs
When customs officers at Futian Port in China saw a males passenger with "weird walking posture, joint stiffness, muscle tension..." they got suspicious. Turns out, he was attempting to smuggle 94...
View ArticlePrediction: This Will Not End Well
Oil and water. Journalists are a different breed, and don't play well with normals. I'm sure the Genius guys have convinced Sasha Frere-Jones that they're not like all those other corporate jerks —...
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Who Is Going To Davos? Valleywag Needs A Spy
In just nine days the world's most self-important people will descend on a tiny ski village in the Alps to rub shoulders with Nobel laureates and big-shot CEOs. They will talk about very important...
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Apple Used MLK In Ads, But Does Not Observe His Holiday
Martin Luther King Jr. Day happens a week from today, on Monday Jan. 19. But it's not a holiday for the loyal employees of Apple. They have to go to work. Read more...
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