Category: Headlines
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Why Is Dodd’s Banking Bill Messing With Venture Funding? Typical – a bill that’s supposed to be about banking reform throws in some new rules about startup funding that have nothing to do with banks. The two provisions, which seemed designed to keep anyone near the middle from having any chance of being an angel…
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WHAT YOU MISSED AT SXSW 2010: Bill Murray Bartending at Shangri-La (w/ his friends RZA and GZA) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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tumblr_kzw840A5VK1qz4gsv The Kinks, “Strangers” – (Thanks to Colin for the help with the music curation. Plenty more good stuff to come – stay tuned.)
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HEALTHCARE REFORM OUTRAGE: The Tanning Tax That’s right, if you like getting your skin cancer bronze on in tanning beds, you’re about to face a 10% tax in your pursuit of matching your leather handbag. Gawker reports on the bridge & tunnel crowd’s response.
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Michael Anderson – Canaima Lagoon, Venezuela [v:i:a]
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Good music videos that didn’t cost a fortune (despite names that might seem to indicate otherwise): ‘70 Million’ by Hold Your Horses [via] (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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I can definitely get behind a concept like Showtel. I’d even consider traveling to West Palm Beach to check it out. So you know I mean business. [via blasko:pratt]
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I think it’s possible to hate anybody if you just read their Twitter. Josh Abramson (via rickyv)
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Less Talk, More Rock: Must-read ruminations on gaming and storytelling for game designers and anybody attempting to use the tools of narrative, prepared by Superbrothers and presented by Brandon Boyer for Boing Boing.
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(Photo by Carter Smith/GQ) The media can’t get enough of The Sanchize. Mark Sanchez and the Jets will be featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” this summer. The show gives you an intimate look at the lives of NFL players and coaches as the prep for the upcoming season in training camp. HBO Sports president Ross…
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Massive Poop Bubbles Threaten Midwest Now you understand why March Madness is such a big deal in Big Ten country – they’re trying to distract themselves from the springtime ‘gas bubbles in manure pools’ reality of everyday life. (It’s not often you get to link a phrase like that to the Wall Street Journal. +10…
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Evolving back into cave dwelling would be a fitting next step on the evolutionary arc for our species, wouldn’t it? Curt and Deborah Sleeper of Festus, Missouri are showing us the way. [via]
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