• How to get a job at a kick-ass startup (for programmers) - Blog - thoughts from the red planet
• BBC News - Man jailed over computer password refusal
  expect this story to come up more and more frequently
• First ever marriage proposal via facebook?
  lamebook.com, excellent window into americans lives
• Mind - Why All Indiscretions Appear Youthful - NYTimes.com
  How people rationalize wrongdoing, maintain positive self image. "Future selves may score the best reviews of all" - emphasize unwritten future potential
• Experimentation, orgasms, and the rise of anal sex - William Saletan reviews the latest national sex survey
• Common "code smells" (bad programming practices) and ways to improve them
  Don't leave variables in global scope, indent consistently, avoid magic numbers in code, functions should do at most 1 task, etc.
• Forty Percent of Groupon Merchants Say Never Again
  Groupon customers are poor tippers, rush of people causes poor service, 30% don't make a profit off of the Groupon. Spas/salons do better than restaurants
• With Alcohol Policy, Tradition Succumbs to Ebb and Flow « Forum | The Official Student Publication of Claremont McKenna College
  From a Sarah Lawrence alum: I don't recall the particular pumpkin-carving event, but Mary's tenure at Sarah Lawrence coincided with all of the following happenings: - The cancellation of Sleaze Ball, an event that celebrated sexual diversity, on the grounds that "too many kids were ending up in ER" (I think the highest count was eight on the evening in question, but my understanding is that more stringent alcohol policies were already in place by then). - The alcohol policy became VERY STRINGENT over the what, four-five years she was at the school. It's by no means a dry campus now, but trying to get a sufficient amount of alcohol at school events tends to be an uphill battle. - A shift in security-student relations. Security became less friends with us, and more disciplinarians. Make of this what you will. The only reason anybody at Sarah Lawrence was sad to see her go was that nobody who met her successor thought that there had been any kind of improvement.
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• How to Sell a Domain Name
  Don't commit to a price, don't look weak, as the owner you hold all the cards. Doesn't sound at all like selling a house
• Glenn Beck: Dana Milbank’s Tears of a Clown Excerpt - The Daily Beast
  At the end of 2009, Gallup asked Americans which living man anywhere in the world they admire most. More volunteered Beck than offered the pope, Bill Gates, Billy Graham, Bill Clinton, or George H.W. Bush. The only man to be mentioned more often than Beck was South Africa’s Nelson Mandela.
• Open Source Software in Python
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• How Fake Money Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR
  economists invented fake currency that had constant value, after a few months they simply converted to the fake one. amazing
• The bizarre, sad tale of Togo's fake national soccer team. - By Brian Phillips - Slate Magazine
  amazing story of soccer in africa, politics that get involved. fifa tends to promote image of thriving african soccer, downplay the crazy stuff. fascinating

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