TurboTax Maker Funnels Millions To Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns | TechCrunch
Don't forget that @turbotax is the only reason you need @turbotax. »
CRS-6 First Stage Landing - YouTube
I’m just over here trying’ to get people to connect with Facebook. @elonmusk: High res slow motion rocket landing »
People Use Our Code to Make Great TV Every Day at Scripto Enterprises LLC - Node.js - Stack Overflow Careers
Hey tech friends, I’m hiring a javascript programmer or two! Spread the word »
This Public Shaming Is Not Like The Other
Damn good @DearSplenda piece on Ronson's public shaming book »
CRS-6 First Stage Landing - YouTube
Here's the sea shattering kaboom: My favorite is the nitrogen cloud coming out the top, trying to keep … »
Chordslayer
oh…. DAMN I am very EXCITED about THIS »
#FREEAMERICA
So appreciative of what @johnlegend is doing to address criminal justice reform with #FREEAMERICA (<3 @dreamham... »
DSpace@MIT: The Paradox of Meritocracy in Organizations
MIT research on how organizations that see themselves as a meritocracy show greater subconscious bias. »
Pixar
Want to work at Pixar? Got Python & Javascript chops? Good at interacting w/film production folks? Great gig here! »
Hypercritical: OS X Reviewed
Siracusa will review no more »
openterrain/openterrain · GitHub
Wanted: Open Source terrain data. We're stitching a global data set & seeking contributions. http... »
SpaceX CRS-6 First Stage Landing - YouTube
PEOPLE. WATCH THIS. Crushing on @SpaceX so hard. »
Something’s coming -
In case you missed it yesterday, we’re preparing a design conference to go alongside WWDC! more details to come. »
Men's Hairstyles
@brooksalford enjoy! »
nyti.ms/1aQUEk0
I found out how teens (likely) hacked into my car last week, and how to stop them with the help of my freezer »
Adactio: Journal—Hope
@ev I would love to see @adactio's post linked to yours on #Medium. Webmentions support? cc @dpup »
Thington
So excited for my friends @tomcoates and @mattb. Introducing Thington: YES YE… »
The Messy Business Of Reinventing Happiness | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
Interesting look at the creation of Disney World's MagicBands and MyMagic+ programs - »
nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/personaltech/turbotax-or-irs-as-tax-preparer-intuit-has-a-favorite.html?_r=0
Good @fmanjoo column pointing out how hard Intuit has worked to make tax prep a series of trick questions »
spaceprob.es/shop
Hooray, we deployed a more proper storefront for buying awesome space probe stuff (posters, shirts, stickers, etc) »
Game Show | Game Night: Family Spats (Episode 7)
It's Game Night! Join our Game Show panelists as they play '70s Family Feud for fake cash! htt… »
Patrick Klepek Will Now Take Your Calls — What I’ve Learned From Failure
"Own your mistakes. Learn from them. Be empowered by them." - @patrickklepek, on being an imperfect feminist ally »
bOING bOING
REVIVING 1991 @BOINGBOING STARTS RIGHT NOW PEOPLE »
Gluten: The Facts and the Fad — The Nib — Medium
Just what the heck IS gluten, exactly? Never fear, @sciencecomic's explainer is »
Asked and Answered: Sage and Kerry’s Letter on Equal Pay — Medium
“Can you talk to congress and figure this out.” Cutest letter about equal pay, and I love the president’s response »
100 Days As A Black Man In Silicon Valley » VSB
“100 Days As A Black Man In Silicon Valley” by @ajarrodjenkins: via @tafsiri »
Thington Inc. Angel Funding Announcement — Welcome to Thington — Medium
Thington announces funding to build a new way to interact with a world of connected objects »
Cards Against Humanity Internships
If you know how to fix a printer jam, please be our intern »
The Loch Ness soup ladle
Behold, the world's greatest kitchen utensil: a soup ladle shaped like the Loch Ness monster »
BONANZA! #8: The Chief Executive Officer of Apologies - Relay FM
DOMAIN NAMES RT @_RelayFM: Posted: BONANZA! 8 with @imyke, & @mattalexand - »
Dodgers Accelerator
This is brilliant and every sports team should be doing something similar to stay relevant in the future »
Seanan's Tumblr
"That's asshole talk for 'black'" »
tim | Last Exit to Loyalty (On Holding On Past The)
"Last Exit to Loyalty (On Holding On Past The)": my contribution to #tableflip2015 -- »
Paper Machete, The Development and Manzanita Falls | Facebook
Hey, friends! Two weeks from tonight @rcarver and I will be playing rock music at @50_mason. No cover! Show info »
Climbing down the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram – The Mountain Goats
Not sure enough people appreciate the reference to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram on the new @mountain_goats album »
I like talking about games, more specifically I like dissecting games and…
My thoughts on judging for @CAH’s Tabletop Deathmatch. »
CRS-6 First Stage Landing - YouTube
Oh you know, another day, another attempt at trying to land a rocket on a ship »
Reinventing News for the Watch — Medium
Reinventing news for the Watch: The best Watch apps are connected to the world around you. »
Join Knock
Want to help build a better way to monitor bicycle transportation infrastructure? Join us as a founding engineer. »
Gary Chou — Orbital Product Sessions
Announcing Orbital Product Sessions »
Screen shot of Boing Boing circa 1993 - Boing Boing
Screen shot of Boing Boing circa 1993 »
Safari - Front-End Engineer
Hey front-endians, come work with us at @safari »
Watch SpaceX's Vine "Falcon 9 first stage landing burn and touchdown on Just Read the Instructions"
Checkout @SpaceX 's attempted landing of their first stage on a barge. Space flight is about to get awesome. https://… »
mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/personaltech/turbotax-or-irs-as-tax-preparer-intuit-has-a-favorite.html?ref=business&smid=tw-nyt...
Your annual reminder that it's Intuit, the maker of Turbotax, keeping us from free & fast automatic tax filing. http... »
Comic strip critiques Batman’s odd logic - Boing Boing
Comic strip critiques Batman’s odd logic »
WipEout (PSX) – Model Viewer
WipEout models from the Playstation 1 in your browser Reverse engineering wipeout (psx) »
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and Is Shame Necessary? review – think before you tweet | Books | The Guardian
Strange Guardian review of Ronson book says I became sexually excited by reporting harassment htt… »
WHY I WON’T BE A PRESENTER AT THE HUGO AWARDS THIS YEAR | The Connie Willis . Net Blog
Connie Willis, Grand Master, on why she won't be presenting at the Hugos this year: Well worth reading. »
Nomadic Issues
Reading Mark Weiser's slides on Nomadic Issues in Ubquitious Computing from 1996: #calmtech »
Tabletop Deathmatch s02e17: The Finale - YouTube
I was really touched by @Burning_Luke's speech at the end of Tabletop Deathmatch [SPOILERS] »
Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history - Boing Boing
Blocked Italian toilet leads to thousands of years of buried history »
Facebook brings back the away message in a new mobile experiment | The Verge
We're launching sidebar status as a test in Taiwan and Australia. Big props to @mhrescak and team. »
Nick Kokonas and Tock, The Future of Restaurant Ticketing - Bloomberg Business
Great piece on Tock. "(OpenTable declined to comment for this story.)" »
Florida gentleman arrested for selling "Legit Counterfeit $$" on Craigslist - Boing Boing
Florida gentleman arrested for selling "Legit Counterfeit $$" on Craigslist »
Cover Reveal for Charlie Jane Anders’ All the Birds in the Sky | Tor.com
First look at the incredibly beautiful cover of my novel All the Birds in the Sky tks @IreneGallo … »
Goldman Asked More Than 1,000 Consumers About the Apple Watch, and it's Good News for Apple - Bloomberg Business
Goldman Sachs survey of potential Apple Watch buyers: Not a pretty picture for the rest of the industry. »
AP News : For-profit school firm, Education Management, restructures
Corporations & 1% can always get their debts canceled. 4profit Education Management Corp just got $1.3B wiped out htt... »
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/nj-legislator-who-sponsored-anti-swatting-bill-gets-swatted
ICYMI: NJ legislator suggests harsher punishment for "swatting" attackers... and gets swatted. @arstechn… »
Arkansas cops send malware to whistleblowers' lawyers - Boing Boing
Arkansas cops send malware to whistleblowers' lawyers »
Biddulph And Coates Launch Thington, A New Super-Angel-Backed IoT Startup | TechCrunch
Biddulph And Coates Launch Thington, A New Super-Angel-Backed IoT Startup by @mikebutcher »
Biddulph And Coates Launch Thington, A New Super-Angel-Backed IoT Startup | TechCrunch
We had a bit of a chat yesterday with Mike Butcher about what we're working on with Thington »
Success Kid's dad needs help to raise money for a kidney transplant
Ever used this picture in a talk? Time to pay back, the kid's dad needs a kidney transplant, http://t.c… »
Cops have killed way more Americans in America than terrorists have - Boing Boing
Police have killed way more Americans in America than terrorists have. 5600 since 2000. http://t.co… »
To fight income inequality, tell your friends how much you make – Quartz
Not perfect solution, but I stand by it: To fight income inequality, tell your friends how much you make via @felsull »
This 'numerical sledding game' is like Skifree, but with math - Boing Boing
Normally maths are disallowed from my life, but Laura wrote about this unusual ski game »
Biddulph And Coates Launch Thington, A New Super-Angel-Backed IoT Startup | TechCrunch
Congrats @tomcoates & @mattb on launching @thingtonhq, which @techcrunch calls "A New Super-Angel-Backed IoT Startup" h... »
Re: [EME] HTTPS performance experiments for large scale content distribution from Mark Watson on 2015-04-15 ([email protected] from April 2015)
Awesome that Netflix is going HTTPS. Nothing motivates security like a competitor owning the last mile. »
Interactive map: US police have killed at least 5,600 people since 2000 - Vox
Walter Scott isn't alone — US police have killed at least 5,600 people in the past 15 years. http://t.c… »
16-year-old Amandla Stenberg Schools Everyone On Cultural Appropriation In This Powerful Video
RUE!!! *presses three fingers to mouth* RT @blackvoices @AmandlaStenberg schools everyone on cultural appropriation »
This Magic Moment - The Sopranos
@jboonstra RT @khoi: “Sopranos” creator David Chase comments on the famous ending to its last episode. »
Sources: Yahoo In Talks To Buy Foursquare | TechCrunch
Yahoo in talks to buy Foursquare. I used it since day one, but the app split still baffles me. »
Surge vs GitHub Pages
Launching Static Web Applications? Learn about @surge_sh vs GitHub Pages »
Growth and the Suburban Chassis | Granola Shotgun
Just a fantastic piece on why Silicon Valley is so miserable from a livability perspective. http:/… »
Counter-Terrorism Officials Helped Track Black Lives Matter Protesters | News | East Bay Express
#CHP created fake Twitter profiles, used anti-terror apparatus to spy on #BlackLivesMatter http… »
Animated GIF version of Avengers: Age of Ultron poster, by AVBH - Boing Boing
“Animated GIF version of Avengers: Age of Ultron poster, by AVBH” ➟ »
California drought: water supplier votes for 15% cut that could affect millions | US news | The Guardian
California drought: water supplier votes for 15% cut that could affect millions cc @sonaar @watercanary »
Screw leaning in. It's time to slam the door in Silicon Valley's face | Jess Zimmerman | Comment is free | The Guardian
Screw leaning in. It's time to slam the door in Silicon Valley's face | Jess Zimmerman #tablef… »
arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/lawyer-representing-whistle-blowers-finds-malware-on-drive-supplied-by-cops
Lawyer representing whistle blowers finds malware on drive supplied by cops »
Don’t make bicyclists more visible. Make drivers stop hitting them. - The Washington Post
read this: as you do, remember that in _actual_ cycling-forward countries, riders wear normal clothes and no helmet. »
Here's What Happened In Indiana As Soon As The Media Stopped Paying Attention | ThinkProgress
Indiana quietly rejects LGBT protections as soon as the media stops paying attention »
John Roderick Raised $40,000 in His First Week Campaigning for City Council - Slog - The Stranger
John Roderick Raised $40,000 in His First Week Campaigning for City Council »
Fight 215: Stop the Patriot Act's Mass Surveillance
Now is the chance to stop surveillance under the Patriot Act! »
Stories that shape: What are the best novels about the politics of technology? | Science | The Guardian
ICYMI: I'm hunting for great novels, short stories, poetry, which explore STEM's systems, politics & power structures »
Sustainability | Read the Docs
Our team just woke up at 5am to help fix database issues. We're not paid to do this, help us change this »
Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown - iFixit
We tore down the new Retina Macbook 2015, you should USB-see what's inside. »
Gamasutra - Bloodborne: You are the experience points
Guys, @108's essay on Bloodborne is basically everything. If you want to know why I love that game, this is it »
Privacy Lab and CryptoParty - a meetup for privacy minded people in San Francisco- Eventbrite
Bay Area librarians! Don't miss this @mozilla Privacy Lab/Cryptoparty on teaching tech to nontech people. Relevant! https:/… »
Portland airport uses goats, llama to clear invasive plants
.@FlyPDX uses goats/llama to clear invasive plants near #PDX airfield. @KGWNews has the story: h… »
Only on Kickstarter: THE LEADER'S GUIDE by ERIC RIES by Eric Ries — Kickstarter
Only 3 hours left! Last chance to get The Leader's Guide by @ericries »
Random Number Live Stream
Don't forget, you can tune in to a live stream of uniformly distributed random integers between 1 and 100 »
The Living Room | Love + Radio | Listen with headphones on
@kfan enjoying L+R but this ep in particular made me cry A LOT. so actually if your’e driving maybe don’t listen »
We dream about drones, said 13-year-old Yemeni before his death in a CIA strike | World news | The Guardian
Nice piece by the Guardian humanizing some of the extrajudicial killing the CIA drone program gets up to in Yemen »
Sweet Run 2015 - Razoo
My goal today is to raise $1000 for @CupcakeGirlsOrg ideally by getting 100 friends (or your friends) to donate $10 »
The protocol-relative URL - Paul Irish
The protocol relative URL is now an anti-pattern. If the asset is available on HTTPS, always request it with that. http://… »
Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014) - YouTube
If you do creative work, you should really see this speech by @tinysubversions: «buy more lottery t… »
Relay FM
“@_RelayFM: On Air: BONANZA! with @imyke, & @mattalexand - Surprise! »
World Domination Summit
Portland area: We’re recruiting a special volunteer crew for #WDS2015. Rewards include fame + pizza! — »
A Gentlemen’s Guide To Rape Culture — Medium
Attention all dudes: Want to understand what feminists mean when we say "rape culture?" This guy wrote you a guide! https… »
Humble Indie Bundle 11 (pay what you want and help charity)
I don't tweet about EA stuff much, but heads up: We're doing a Humble Bundle this week that supports @GirlsWhoCode! »