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I didn't get past the second picture of Gordon Gecko.

Balderdash. Watch the speech. This article is pure nonsense.

Don't forget Kickstarter and Everyblock. Chicago will be fine.

"Synaesthetic and psychedelic mean approximately the same thing." -Gene Youngblood in Expanded Cinema (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_cinema). Good book.

People are killing themselves because they can't get on Twitter? Or is it because of post-traumatic stress disorder and a lack of support or understanding once they get home?

@GI_Joe Don't do it, man!

Probably the best thing posted to Hacker News so far. RIP Bill.

Lipstick on pigs. The most interesting one is the last one in the slideshow, Blackwater changed their name to Xe. It doesn't change the fact that they are mercenary soldiers.

No, they aren't identical because as you say "one had some time go by". Most things are used, and with use, an object is changed. Secondly, "exactly the same methods" is questionable, depending on how old an object is. You can't just make things by exactly the same methods in many cases. And finally, there are entire civilizations that have been wiped out, so even an exact replica of something created by a member of such a society could not be recreated today. Good article though.

They come in three sizes, A, B and C. Since you're 6'4" you need size C. You can tell the size of the chair you're sitting in by feeling under the top part. If you're in the wrong size chair, you're probably not going to like it. FYI.

As much as it annoys me that hulu is pulling the plug, this analysis is excellent.

"The networks are nothing more than a middleman between the people who make content and the ones who consume it, and they know it. And like all middlemen, they lie awake at night hoping the people on the ends don’t find a way to cut them out. The relatively slow bandwidth in most of the first world and the lack, until recently, of internet-connected hardware attached to televisions has relegated online video to little more than kittens on treadmills, but the writing is on the wall."

This guy is definitely overstating his own importance, at least with regards to his "Google footprint" and I have to wonder how many club owners he actually knows. http://www.google.com/search?q=jona+bechtolt, Analog Industries is a few results down.

Everyblock was funded by a Knight Foundation grant, and I believe still are.

Matt from Metafilter did this years ago.