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I think it's because the Sun Times paid the costs of running the site, but I'm not 100% sure.

They nuked the entire "Ask the Movie Answer Man" section, which was one of my favorite things on the site. Even the old archives are gone. A search turns up links, but they are all…

> criminals simply don't use weapons on civilians (apart from high value targets, perhaps) because the penalties for doing so are so harsh. Criminals literally throw their guns awa…

The main way in which these predictions were off the mark is that media distribution in Cronkite's 2001 is still a one-way street, from news organization to individual news consume…

> To assume that your customer must be intelligent is the biggest mistake you can ever make. It's not about customers being less intelligent than you; that's an arrogant stance to …

Nedloh?

Relevant: http://www.theonion.com/articles/google-responds-to-privacy-...

Lost in the bashing of this professor who had the temerity not to want to pay higher taxes, is the fact that he had to invest lots of money to be able to earn his big salary. He pr…

Kids tease other kids about ANYTHING. If it weren't about your name, it would be something else. Doesn't mean white society is conspiring to keep Chinese people down. And that UNC …

Maybe they would get more women founders if they called it X Combinator?

An article like this without a single reference to the impact and influence of unions is absurd, like trying to explain the workings of the solar system without invoking the concep…

Adams, as usual, doesn't let facts and his own hypocrisy get in the way of a catchy blog post. His choosing an airline ticket took a long time precisely because he WASN'T satisfied…

Actually, those guys send virtual invitations; you are going to print them out. So not the same thing. But similar in trying to undercut high-priced competitors.

It's already being done. I got an invitation to a friend's wedding via this service: http://www.paperlesspost.com/

Also bats with firebombs attached to them. Surely that's almost as good as sharks with laser beams on their heads.

Meanwhile, it sure seems like Computerworld has it in for Facebook. Here's the latest articles listed in its "Facebook Watch" sidebar: # Are we burning out on Facebook? # Web abuzz…

Any financial analyst knows you need to look at year-on-year ("YoY") growth rates for monthly data to eliminate the impact of seasonality. For example, retail sales for a store mig…

Since the population of Earth is rapidly increasing, this poor guy is unlikely to ever live through all possible lives and level up.

Nowhere near as good as Steve Jobs' address at Stanford a few years back, which remains the gold standard for these things. This one seemed mainly like Jeff congratulating himself …

> These people receive wealth. They do not necessarily generate it. Athletes and movie stars are certainly talented, but entertainment is a place to push excess wealth and not nece…

I'm a greedy, conservative capitalist and I still thought this essay was garbage. First, it totally failed to address the question of wealth received through means other than entre…

I'd like to add something I haven't seen posted yet: Your body may not last as long as you think it will, at least not in top condition. I'm 37 and I've had lower back pain due to …

"Any time I would've spent on that could be much more productively spent by just making more income." Which is actually a good reason to make taxes lower and less burdensome, so th…

I think the point here is that he "paid back toward society" by creating jobs and charities, not by forking over his money to the government for it to waste on inefficient pork-bar…