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AlistairCharlton writes:
Graffiti artist David Choe, 35, grew up rough on the streets of Los Angeles, had some run-ins with the law and spent some time in jail, but on 18 May he will make at least $200m (£126m).
Seven years ago Choe was approached by Sean Parker, then president of one-year-old Facebook, to paint some graffiti art in the company's offices.
In return for his work Choe was offered either cash or shares in the new company and, despite thinking that Facebook was "ridiculous and pointless", Choe chose the shares.
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alphadogg writes:
Last week, a number of news outlets ran a story on a blog called Fixing Windows 8, a Tumblr site run by user interface designer and former Microsoft employee Michael Bibik. One week later, and the HTML page for fixingwindows8.com is blank except for one character, a period. If you view the source, it's also just one character, a period. Bibik did not respond to an email request for comment. His Twitter account has also disappeared. The fact that Bibik was an ex-Microsoftie was the main hook for writers who caught wind of the blog while it was active, since this was someone from the mothership issuing loud criticism of the upcoming operating system. Microsoft would not comment either way on the blog or what may have happened to it.
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sciencehabit writes:
In horror movies, fog often provides creepy atmospherics, hiding threats from hideous creatures, bandits, ax murderers, and the like. Now, a new study suggests that fog can harbor real-life horrors. Researchers have found that coastal mists may carry toxic mercury that can harm ecosystems and human health.
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dcblogs writes:
In the first 40 days of President Barack Obama’s administration, the White House email system was down 23% of time, according to the White House CIO Brook Colangelo, the person who also delivered the “first presidential Blackberry.” The White House IT systems inherited by the new administration were in bad shape. Over 82% of the White House's technology had reached its end of life. Desktops, for instance, still had floppy disk drives, including the one Colangelo delivered to Rahm Emanuel, Obama's then chief of staff and now Mayor of Chicago. There were no redundant email servers.
