Monthly Archives: January 2016
Violet
Adele Oliveira | Longreads | January 2016 | 23 minutes (5,727 words)
I don’t believe in fate, or that life events, both everyday and profound, unfold the way that they’re supposed to. Yet the first six months of my first pregnancy were at once mundane and ordained. I got pregnant quickly. Morning sickness and a sore back arrived right on schedule. Growing up, my mom acquainted me with the details (like gaining 60 pounds) of her two healthy pregnancies and the unmedicated, uncomplicated births that resulted in me and my sister. I’d wanted to be a mother since I was a toddler pretending to breastfeed my dolls, and so I outlined the birth of a healthy child in an indelible mental framework, so unconscious and routine that it felt like destiny.
My pregnancy ended abruptly when our daughter Violet was born two years ago in late September, at 25 weeks…
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The Most Haunted Road in America
Taffy Brodesser-Akner | Atlas Obscura | October 2015 | 20 minutes (4,944 words)

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In a part of New Jersey where snakes slither slowly across a road, still coiled and yet somehow still moving; in a part of New Jersey where an insect that looks like a miniaturized bat sits on your windshield, menacing you while you make a sound that doesn’t sound quite like you from inside your car; in a part of New Jersey with a disproportionate amount of road kill in an already highly populated-by-road kill state; in a part of New Jersey where your phone cannot, will not pick up any kind of signal; here, in West Milford, in the county of Passaic, lies Clinton Road, a 10-mile stretch of haunted highway.
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Meet The Startups Vying For The Founder Of The Year Crunchie For 2015
The 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. On February 8, luminaries from some of the best and brightest startups around will descend upon San Francisco’s..
स्रोत: Meet The Startups Vying For The Founder Of The Year Crunchie For 2015
Small Businesses Need Quick Action On Safe Harbor
With a January 31 deadline looming and the Judicial Redress Act languishing in the Senate, it is imperative for Congress to act quickly to take an important..
Tesla Says CEO Elon Musk Just Bought More of The Company
Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks shares of his motor company are headed upward. That’s the apparent message reporters received this afternoon from Tesla’s PR..
स्रोत: Tesla Says CEO Elon Musk Just Bought More of The Company
Gillmor Gang LIVE 01.29.16
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recoding session today at 1pmPT/4pmET. Our LIVE chat on Chat..
स्रोत: Gillmor Gang LIVE 01.29.16
Snapchat Challenges Twitter And Facebook For Sports Talk
Possession wins trophies or, in this case, ad dollars. That’s why Snapchat stepped up its game late last year by quietly partnering with Stats.com. Now..
स्रोत: Snapchat Challenges Twitter And Facebook For Sports Talk
टीम इंडिया का स्कोर १०० के पार , क्या आज जीत पायेगी पहली T २० का मैच
Google Open Sources Its Seesaw Load Balancer
Google announced today that it is open-sourcing Seesaw — a Linux-based load balancing system. The code for the project, which is written in Google’s Go..