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The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs and many other celebrities

May 18, 2012   Matthew Panzarino
The story of the ‘secret’ room at Pixar, frequented by Steve Jobs and many other celebrities

Truthfully, I thought everyone knew about the ‘Lucky 7 Lounge’. It’s a secret room at Pixar that’s really not so secret now. But I took a quick poll of some friends and coworkers and drew a blank, so here goes.…

Here are the things that Facebook made more money than today

May 18, 2012   Drew Olanoff

Facebook, investors, and journalists aren’t the only ones having a hoot-and-half during today’s mega-IPO event. It seems like developers who like to hack together cool little sites to commemorate the event are also having the best day ever.
Check out…

It’s complicated: Indian woman files for divorce over ‘single’ Facebook status

May 18, 2012   Robin Wauters

Love. It’s not always all you need.
In a sure-tell sign that Facebook’s IPO will be a massive failure, an Indian women has reportedly filed for divorce after her husband failed to update the relationship status on his social networking…

Facebook’s pre-IPO hackathon kicks off with a standing ovation, hoodies and lots and lots of people

May 18, 2012   Jon Russell

Facebook revealed that it is seeing in its impending IPO with one final hackathon as a private company, and things are already under way at Menlo Park.
The listing is set to be the biggest Internet IPO ever – which will…

If you had a MakerBot, you could print your own Atari 2600 cartridges

May 18, 2012   Drew Olanoff
If you had a MakerBot, you could print your own Atari 2600 cartridges

Even though I don’t own one, I’m a huge fan of the MakerBot product and concept. The idea behind the machines that you can buy from MakerBot is that you can print out 3D objects that you can use in…

The Game of Thrones theme played on floppy drives is better than the original

May 17, 2012   Matthew Panzarino
The Game of Thrones theme played on floppy drives is better than the original

Not to take anything away from Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi, but there’s just something about this rendition of the show’s theme on floppy drives that really tickles my fancy. The video was created by perennial floppy disk wrangler…

Here’s a great (and hilarious) way to fight spammers and scammers

May 17, 2012   Boris
Here’s a great (and hilarious) way to fight spammers and scammers

Last night I spent a few hours (seriously) reading the hilarious stories at DontEvenReply.com. The website’s author emails people who post classified ads. As he puts it: “My goal is to mess with them, confuse them, and/or piss them off”.…

This neat site lets you challenge the pundits and predict Facebook’s IPO closing price

May 17, 2012   Jon Russell

Facebook’s upcoming IPO is dominating tech investors’ discussions and thoughts, but you can get involved in the evident too, even if you’re not one of those ready to put cash on the table for a slice of the global social…

Watch Larry Page and Sergey Brin accept a Webby Award in 2000, wearing silver capes

May 16, 2012   Harrison Weber
Watch Larry Page and Sergey Brin accept a Webby Award in 2000, wearing silver capes

Ah, how times have changed. 2000 was quite the year: we didn’t die from Y2K, gas only cost $1.26/gallon and we all used to wear silver capes…WAIT! WHAT?
Yes, the folks behind The Webby Awards have uncovered lost footage of Larry Page and…

Say hello to Zuckerberg: The Musical

May 16, 2012   Alex Wilhelm
Say hello to Zuckerberg: The Musical

This will be by far the best thing that you have seen today, if you’ve been keeping clear of archived Metallica concerts. Ladies and bruces, we have the Zuckerberg Musical for you.
Employing a great number of scenes, each based…

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