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I didn't get past the second picture of Gordon Gecko.


ahh, just scroll down trough this shit and watch Gordon Gekko clip from the movie!


Balderdash. Watch the speech. This article is pure nonsense.


Don't forget Kickstarter and Everyblock. Chicago will be fine.


EveryBlock already sold to MSNBC. Based on Adrian's note about trying to keep the site alive (http://blog.everyblock.com/2009/aug/17/acquisition/), I have to assume it was a buy/hire.


EveryBlock is proudly staying in Chicago.


Kickstarter is Brooklyn-based, not Chicago based.


"Synaesthetic and psychedelic mean approximately the same thing." -Gene Youngblood in Expanded Cinema (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_cinema). Good book.


This may be true, when "synethetic" and "psychedelic" are used as specialist jargon for describing films or various effects in film. But it's not true in the general, colloquial sense of these terms, which refer to either a type of sensation or to a type of drug.

Psychedelic literally means "mind-manifesting", while the etymology for synethesia comes from "sense" and "together".

The word "psychedelic" was specifically coined as a way to describe the drugs that were previously called "hallucinogens" and "psychotomimetics", and it was an attempt to remove the inaccurate and negative connotations that those other words had.

Synethesia, on the other hand, refers to a specific type of sensation, and not to a drug.

Also, psychedelic drugs have many, many other effects apart from synethesia (which isn't present in every trip or for everyone taking psychedelic drugs, anyway).

So in the usual sense of these terms (not in the sense a film critic might use them), these two words have quite different meanings.


People are killing themselves because they can't get on Twitter? Or is it because of post-traumatic stress disorder and a lack of support or understanding once they get home?

@GI_Joe Don't do it, man!


Probably the best thing posted to Hacker News so far. RIP Bill.


Lipstick on pigs. The most interesting one is the last one in the slideshow, Blackwater changed their name to Xe. It doesn't change the fact that they are mercenary soldiers.


No, they aren't identical because as you say "one had some time go by". Most things are used, and with use, an object is changed. Secondly, "exactly the same methods" is questionable, depending on how old an object is. You can't just make things by exactly the same methods in many cases. And finally, there are entire civilizations that have been wiped out, so even an exact replica of something created by a member of such a society could not be recreated today. Good article though.


They come in three sizes, A, B and C. Since you're 6'4" you need size C. You can tell the size of the chair you're sitting in by feeling under the top part. If you're in the wrong size chair, you're probably not going to like it. FYI.


Yep. If it doesn't fit you, it doesn't matter how much it costs. I'm only 6'2" and the Aeron C is a hair short for my legs, so I can well imagine that many 6'4" wouldn't like it.


As much as it annoys me that hulu is pulling the plug, this analysis is excellent.

"The networks are nothing more than a middleman between the people who make content and the ones who consume it, and they know it. And like all middlemen, they lie awake at night hoping the people on the ends don’t find a way to cut them out. The relatively slow bandwidth in most of the first world and the lack, until recently, of internet-connected hardware attached to televisions has relegated online video to little more than kittens on treadmills, but the writing is on the wall."


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