To whoever made this… thank you.
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Viaweb we started very explicitly to make money. I was sick of living from one freelance project to the next, and decided to just work as hard as I could till I’d made enough to solve the problem once and for all. Viaweb was sometimes fun, but it wasn’t designed for fun, and mostly it wasn’t. I’d be surprised if any startup is. All startups are mostly schleps.
I don’t read fiction. I find it a waste of time. There are so many amazing things that are real; I don’t need to spend any time on a made-up story.
This makes me sad. I appreciate Fried’s frankness, his passion and his ideas, but I will never understand someone who can simply swear off fiction so easily. Does he not watch films? Plays? Read poetry? Has he sworn off television and radio shows? Or is his anti-fiction stance limited only to books?
Can he not appreciate both true and fictional stories? Does he feel great novelists or playwrights or screenwriters have all wasted their lives?
Sometimes “getting real” can go too far.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment that “getting real” can go a little too far, but Jason does clarify a bit in this Hacker News thread. Essentially he says that he does watch TV shows and movies, but that he’s a slow reader, and if he’s going to invest dozens and dozens of hours into reading, he’d rather read non-fiction. I still have no idea how you can find reading fiction a universal waste of time, though - too far, indeed.
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Wisconsin woman Mary Strey calls 911 to report herself as a drunk driver.
A touching testimony delivered by Philip Spooner in support of marriage equality in Maine.
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Cover Friday:
Lily Allen (The Kooks) - Naïve
I’m not saying it was your fault,
Although you could have done more.
Oh you’re so naive yet so…
How could this be done
By such a smiling sweetheart?
A woman found an injured owl on the side of the road, managed to get him in a box, and take him to an animal rescue group. The pictures are incredible.
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