Erick Schonfeld, leading from a paywalled New Yorker item, quotes top investor Peter Thiel on the iPhone: "I don't consider this to be a technological breakthrough." It's unfair to decontextualize the statement—he's talking about the big picture of technology, society and the future—but I love the idea that it took Peter Thiel until 2011 to realize something Mike Lazaridis and Steve Ballmer knew in 2007.
Peter Thiel on the iPhone
Is this dog with a little saddle and a Woody cowboy doll bucking like a bull out of joy or irritation?
Check out "Coco the Bucking Bully," moving and shaking to the tune of Banda La Jaripera Vol 1, "El Toro Mambo." This post from Jose Villanueva and american_tri_colors, also posted… READ THE REST
How to cook a steak by pouring lava on it
This is a lava steak. It is unclear from which volcano the lava originated, but the cow flesh responds to the heat accordingly — it gets seared, burned, and unevenly… READ THE REST
Check out these videos of Feline Science and Medusa, "the Angela Davis of Rap"
If you lived in Los Angeles in the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s, you might have had the fantastic good fortune and taste to see Medusa "the Gangsta… READ THE REST
This knife sharpener is guaranteed to arrive by Valentine's Day and is on sale
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This fancy $30 toothbrush makes for a good Valentine's Day
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Treat that special someone in your life with this Microsoft Surface tablet, now only $159.99
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