August 2010
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““You have so many amazing and beautiful things here. I don’t know...”
– Vidocq, an alchemist, to Allegra, a normal, in Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim.
This resembles many of the answers I received to my various questions from designers about how to best use Photoshop. When I would watch these folks work, I could see they’d done a lot of experimentation in...
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“First, I tried holding my cell phone camera, but that didn’t work and left...”
– Wil Wheaton, on the assembly of this meta-prank.
Limits can liberate.
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Sports Betting Hedge Fund (NPR) →
Update 6/13/12: They’re busto; see end.
The marriage of financial arbitrage and sportsbook operation has never been closer. From an exchange between Marketplace’s Steve Chiotakis and Tony Woodhams, managing director at Centaur Group (itself a subsidiary of Gibraltar-based Quay Financials Ltd.) and founder of the sports-wagering fund:
CHIOTAKIS: How does this work?
WOODHAMS: This...
