"The digital era allows no asylum from extremism, let alone from the toxic combination of high-minded zealotry and the curdled disappointments of young men."—David Remnick in The New Yorker on the Boston bombing suspects.
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Apr 21, 2013
The Brothers Tsarnaev
Conan O'Brien gripes about gifted Boston tee and gets the perfect one in return
Conan tells it better. But, in short: A tee-shirt company in Boston sent Conan a local tee that didn’t resonate with his experience of growing up in the Massachusetts capital. So, he complains about it and asks for a more “realistic” one, an outrageous depiction of his actual childhood. Well, the tee-shirt company delivered. They […]
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Boston-area police warn locals to wear pants outside
A Boston-area police department issued a request to locals to remember to wear pants when picking up their mail, but the posting appears to have someone in particular in mind. “You know who you are,” Taneytown police wrote on Facebook. “This is your last warning.”
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I filmed my socially distant bike ride through the ghost town of downtown Boston
While there were certainly more people out than I expected to see … there weren’t that many. Which somehow made it even weirder than the Boston Marathon Bombing Lockdown, when at least the shared sense of fear was more palpable.
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Here’s your Father’s Day Gift Guide...so you better choose wisely
Father’s Day is June 21st, otherwise known as the roughest shopping day of the year. Don’t get us wrong, Dad deserves an awesome gift for all the great things he gave you. But let’s be honest — buying for your father is often a chore. Your gift has to take into account what he already […]
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Get over 65 hours of Big Data and Machine Learning training for less than $40
Even in horrible economic times, a few simple rules hold unshakably true. And one of those rules is that if you possess an in-demand skill, you’ll always find work — and often, at a top market salary, to boot. If you understand Big Data and how to find order from the chaos of massive stockpiles […]
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Sugru is the duct tape of the 21st century you can mold it to fix...well, almost anything
We live in a disposable era. If you can’t fix a broken item with a wrap of duct tape, there’s a very strong likelihood that its next destination is the trashcan. However, that probably leads to a trigger-finger death sentence for many household items that could be saved with just a bit more ingenuity. Before […]
