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BIRTHDEAD V.2 Frame Blended
Without a doubt, the 179 SEC page filing is a must-read for ecommerce investors and entrepreneurs everywhere. The reason: on one extreme it highlights how well they have executed on an incredibly tough business in just four short years, going from a zero to $600 million in annual sales (my estimates for 2013). On the other extreme, they have limited profits and have lost $56 million to get to this point in their life-cycle. In between, there is a ton of interesting and pertinent information.
My reaction to Zulily’s IPO filing and Flash Sales explained | #LongLA
At a minimum, this blog post is must-read.
(via gregcohn)
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Double Cassidy + @bradbarrish
Now I’ll have some photos of my daughter with me in them.
Well now you're fucked.
I hate you. At least I’m using Tor all the time.
Brilliant telekinesis prank scares the hell out of people in a coffee shop (it also happens to be great marketing for the Carrie remake). Via Gizmodo.
This is amazing!
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
When I was a kid back in the ’70s and ’80s I was really into hi-fi systems. I couldn’t afford much gear, but I could borrow copies of The Absolute Sound and read them cover-to-cover. In those days the general wisdom was to buy an amplifier with way more power than you could possibly ever use, because it would sound great at low and normal volumes.
That wisdom stuck in my head, and I think it applies to software
FastMail’s servers are in the US: what this means for you | FastMail Weblog
FastMail’s servers are in the US: what this means for you | FastMail Weblog
Makes me feel pretty good about using them, though that might be the point of this post. I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt here and, hey, no advertising or selling my info. That’s nice too. I’ve had an account for a while and recently have been migrating from Gmail.
Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity
Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users’ online anonymity
The very feature that makes Tor a powerful anonymity service, and the fact that all Tor users look alike on the internet, makes it easy to differentiate Tor users from other web users. On the other hand, the anonymity provided by Tor makes it impossible for the NSA to know who the user is, or whether or not the user is in the US.
NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
Tor is still a worthwhile tool that everyone should be using every day.