How quickly did Facebook take off? Digiday has a copy of Facebook’s first media kit, put together by Eduardo Saverin in April 2004. The company, still known as “thefacebook.com”, and limited to students of a handful of schools, had first launched at Harvard three months earlier, on February 4, 2004. Two additional schools were added…
Coley Oneal Mitchell had a plan. A bad plan. We’re not quite sure what it was, but the 32 year old lab technician was “found drunk, partially nude in locker room while 2 monkeys loose in lab”, so the plan must have been pretty darn bad. Mitchell was arrested and charged with public drunkenness. The…
A classic tale. Man posts $5000 bond as bail for second man. Second man doesn’t pay back quickly enough. First man beats second man with claw hammer. First man goes to jail on $350,000 bond. Inexplicably, somewhere in the middle, three shots are fired by a third man. The first man, Lanell “Mook” Weeks has…
Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican believes that calls for Rep. Todd Akin to withdraw from the Missouri Senate race are “petty, personal attacks substituting for strong policy.” Akin, he says, is “a strong Christian man, with a wonderful family”. No doubt, these qualifications make Akin a “legitimate candidate”. Akin, of course, recently came under…
Uber, an incredibly fast growing car service/taxi alternative, has hit a pothole in Cambridge, MA. The service allows users to request a car from a smartphone app, track the driver’s progress to their location, pay the driver from their smartphone, and have the receipt emailed to them. Drivers sign up with the service, are vetted,…
When a loved one passes, you want to remember them as they were. Often, it’s helpful to hold on to a physical memento which is associated with their life and what was important to them. Was your relative a partisan hack? Did he watch MSNBC exclusively? Are you Chris Matthews? Then you might be…
We don’t know if Seth Horvitz enjoys action movies, but his recent attempt to purchase a new television online left him with more action than he bargained for. Horvitz opened the package he received, and was shocked to discover not his flat panel television, but an assault rifle. Horvitz called police who took the weapon,…
Sung Hwang, a 46 year old New Haven attorney and President-elect of the New Haven County Bar Association. By all accounts, he is an upstanding citizen. He is also a licensed gun owner. When Mr. Hwang went to a local movie theater, he took his gun along, wearing it visibly, as he is legally allowed…
We must be doing something wrong. Whenever we see a new follower show up on our twitter account(@givinguptheship) with a suggestive photograph and an explicit web address, we block it and report as spam. Apparently, celebrities will pay $18 for 1000 of these! Jason Feifer of Fast Company reports in a fascinating article in which…
We know you try to protect your child from all harm. We know you would never knowingly expose them to danger of any kind. But what you may not know could hurt them. A common household item was recently deemed so dangerous by Britain’s National Health Service in Manchester that they have prohibited adult employees…