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Predictions of Bike-Share Carnage Are a Mirage and a Distraction | Streetsblog New York City

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:04:20 -0400

Predictions of Bike-Share Carnage Are a Mirage and a Distraction | Streetsblog New York City:

A deeper defect of Gelinas’s approach is that it segments dangers to bicyclists from general road dangers facing everyone. Her column reinforces this artificial divide by withholding until paragraph 20 the revelation that “nearly all of the early Velib deaths involved a truck, with these large heavy vehicles making a blind right turn.” Does Gelinas not know that over the past decade this same maneuver by the same class of vehicle has probably killed a hundred New York City pedestrians, like Jessica Dworkin, the Greenwich Village artist whom a turning 18-wheeler crushed to death at Houston Street and Sixth Avenue last August?

make the blobfish face

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:38:46 -0400

make the blobfish face

Gawker posted a tweet with “ICYMI” for a news story that the NYTimes broke at 4am. Back...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:37:59 -0400

Gawker posted a tweet with “ICYMI” for a news story that the NYTimes broke at 4am. Back the fuck off, Gawker. I just had my coffee and I didn’t miss a goddamn thing.

"Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in profits through a Dutch..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:17:47 -0400

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Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in profits through a Dutch bookkeeper’s suburban home office en route to subsidiaries in Mauritius and Switzerland. Like Apple, Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo has deposited profits in an Irish subsidiary that claims not to be a tax resident in Ireland, but instead in the Cayman Islands, filings show.
Forest Labs, Cisco

Forest Laboratories, based in New York, has used a virtually identical strategy to that of Google, claiming most of its profits are offshore, even as its sales are almost entirely in the U.S. It has also used an Irish unit that claims to be headquartered in Bermuda, and therefore not on the hook for Irish income taxes.

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), based in San Jose, California, has avoided paying billions of dollars in income taxes by attributing about half its worldwide profits in recent years to a tiny unit at the foot of the Swiss Alps.

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- A timely reminder that it’s not just Apple: they all do it.
Google Joins Apple Avoiding Taxes With Stateless Income - Bloomberg
(via felixsalmon)

And the company’s Seamless delivery people will each...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:19:01 -0400

And the company’s Seamless delivery people will each receive $56,000; the beer vendors will get $29,000; and ReFrog gets a $8,000 gift card to Old Navy

stryker:

INT. TOPHERCHRIS’S APARTMENT

TOPHERCHRIS, lying face up in bed, laptop on chest, and LACEY, unpackaging a solid gold bong.

CUT TO: Topher’s laptop screen. A CURSOR hovers over the “Place Your Order” button on papajohns.com.

Topher smiles. The cursor moves to “Extra toppings” and checks every available topping.

CUT TO: Lacey placing the bong on a mantelpiece. A closeup shot of the bong. An inscription reads, “Papa’s in the house.”

annicka: creating this image has given me the strength to carry...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:52:28 -0400

annicka:

creating this image has given me the strength to carry on

"Meanwhile, the Daily News helpfully noted that the victim “was wearing a helmet but not carrying..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:37:42 -0400

“Meanwhile, the Daily News helpfully noted that the victim “was wearing a helmet but not carrying identification.””

- (via n8han)

Oklahoma relief organizations whose names are not "Red Cross"

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:16:48 -0400

(preliminary list, and Google for more contact info)

Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief http://www.okdisasterhelp.com/

United Way of Central Oklahoma http://www.unitedwayokc.org/

Other national organizations (may not be on-scene): Operation USA, Feeding America, Salvation Army, AmeriCares

This is the unholy trinity of tech scene articles.

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:16:09 -0400

This is the unholy trinity of tech scene articles.

People despondent to find out David Karp is suddenly rich today, not knowing that he’s been...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:50 -0400

People despondent to find out David Karp is suddenly rich today, not knowing that he’s been rich the entire time because he comes from a rich family

The best part about this story (really, why read any further) is to see that David Karp and Marco...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:05:22 -0400

The best part about this story (really, why read any further) is to see that David Karp and Marco Arment got fired from doing a simple from-scratch CMS buildout that ended up being built on Movable Type in the end.

Unbelievably, people gave them even more money down the road.

elspethjane: Wondering how long it’d take for me to learn this...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:43 -0400

elspethjane:

Wondering how long it’d take for me to learn this dance. 30 mins? 2 days? (by Salaheddine Zehyani)

the intersection of brand voice and cultural relevance

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:00 -0400

jasencomstock:

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God, I love this Retro Report series

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:23:14 -0400

God, I love this Retro Report series:

This Retro Report video lays out how limited scientific studies in the 1980s led to predictions that a generation of children would be damaged for life. Those predictions turned out to be wrong.

It’s like the opposite of how we manage the news cycle. Let’s follow up on bold claims… 20-30 years later!

Maybe all of our news today should be dedicated to reviewing published research and public-realm decisions from the 1980’s and 1990’s. Not in trying obsessively to figure out how we can blame Democrats for Benghazi

Why is New York Magazine doing a cover story on private space travel? Are there prep schools up...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:55:50 -0400

Why is New York Magazine doing a cover story on private space travel? Are there prep schools up there?

If you really think about it, Tumblr is like the unknown bastard...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:06:08 -0400

If you really think about it, Tumblr is like the unknown bastard offspring of Yahoo! - We’ve just missed it this whole time.

Can’t wait until the dashboard background turns Yahoo! purple

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:15:48 -0400

Can’t wait until the dashboard background turns Yahoo! purple

Upset that Michael Shannon didn’t get to this first.

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:11:45 -0400

Upset that Michael Shannon didn’t get to this first.

Hey, did anyone catch that really awkward marriage last night? No, not the one on Game of Thrones

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:41:53 -0400

Hey, did anyone catch that really awkward marriage last night?

No, not the one on Game of Thrones

bugkiss: david karp sold tumblr to yahoo for a large sum of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:39:35 -0400

bugkiss:

david karp sold tumblr to yahoo for a large sum of money so he could then spend that money on getting every copy of this picture deleted from the internet forever