A new video about the history and present state of London’s famed amateur boxing club, The Fitzroy Lodge, shows the value of teaching discipline and control (and how to knock somebody out).
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Mountain cabin in Futaleufu, Chile.
Built with only a hammer and hand saw, 100% off-grid with solar and hydropower.
Submitted by Jon Clark.
Junot Diaz and Dinaw Mengestu Win MacArthur Grants
Congratulations to the New Yorker contributors Junot Díaz and Dinaw Mengestu on being awarded MacArthur “genius” grants this week. Díaz has published thirteen stories in the magazine, and Mengestu was included in 20 Under 40, The New Yorker’s 2010 selection of young fiction writers. Here are links to stories we’ve run by these two distinguished writers, along with Q. & A.s they’ve done with their editors about their work.
Junot Díaz:
“How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)”
“The Sun, the Moon, the Stars”
“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”
Q. & A. about “The Pura Principle”
“The Cheater’s Guide to Love” Q .& A. about “The Cheater’s Guide to Love”
Dinaw Mengetsu:
Photographs courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi have built an updated version of one of our favorite homes in the American South, Stephen Atkinson’s modernist dogtrot Zachary’s House, destroyed in 2005.
Above is the new house sited in Ramseur, North Carolina; below is the original built in 1999 in Zachary, Louisiana.
Photographs by Tony Cenicola and CJ Builds.
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In 2005, Rebecca Tomsyck left her psychiatrist practice in Charlotte, North Carolina, and joined the Army. She was 53.
“In Iraq we were mortared an awful lot, but I wasn’t afraid because I came to realize that I had zero control over what happened. Once I recognized that, there was an element of peace that accompanied that. I got to that place pretty quickly in Iraq, and I recreated it pretty quickly in Afghanistan.”
Still so cool
Nest 2.0 is a cutting-edge thermostat that learns homeowners’ schedules and can be adjusted via a mobile phone.
Paul Graham on Growth
Another Gem from Paul Graham on Growth and Start-ups.. really fantastic
Paul Graham on Equity
Fantastic Piece and perspective on VC equity and employee equity.
Nick Offerman performs bacon slam poetry
Your dad partied harder than you ever will and he’s got the gapped-grin to prove it. In the whiskey-blurred memories of parties past, one liquor-filled legend raged harder than even god thought possible - your dad. He was a cyclone of drunken destruction that engulfed innocent bystanders into his vortex of debauchery. Going out with him was like stepping into a strip club that was inside a cocaine-dance party that was on a speeding train that crashed into a brewery where Mike Tyson was practicing assault.
So hipsters, when you’re drunk screaming yolo before doing something you’ll regret when you’re sitting in the hospital, remember this…
Your dad pre-gamed harder than you party.
Don’t forget to pick up a copy of the book Dads are the Original Hipsters yo!
http://www.amazon.com/Dads-Original-Hipsters-Brad-Getty/dp/1452108854
The Galaxy III became a huge success because of Samsung’s strong portfolio in Brazil, India, Indonesia and China. What’s fascinating about Apple is its refusal to get aggressive in emerging markets. They basically ceded the crown to Samsung.
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excellent piece in the NYT on Apple vs Samsung and iOS vs Android
IPhone Fever? Don’t Count Samsung Out - NYTimes.com
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More slides….
Paul Singh on #Moneyball4Startups
Great set of Slides from Dave McClure on VC Evolution
On a presentation kick right now
Amazing guide to NYTech by Steve Schlafman of Lerer Ventures
