...at excess room in America’s cars — a prospect that could free up an extraordinary amount of cash for Americans, take hundreds of thousands of vehicles off the road, and provide an income for drivers. That idea became a ride-sharing business called Zimride, with the “Zim” standing for “Zimbabwe.”
Can Lyft Pull an Avis? -- NYMag
9 years
While Jeb Bush was governor of Florida, the state approved a law forcing single mothers seeking to place their children for adoption to publish their sexual histories in a newspaper in an attempt to contact the children's fathers — even if the mothers were rape victims or minors.
A Florida law required some single moms to publish ads naming their sexual partners - Vox
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...oshua Halley, who served as Chief Osceola from 2004-07 and graduated from the university in 2009, was allegedly stabbed last Tuesday by coworker Orlando Thompson at a restaurant where the two worked. The incident occurred after an apparent altercation over the amount of spice to put into some gumbo at Buddy's Seafood Market.
Former FSU mascot stabbed to death over gumbo recipe | NCAA Football | Sporting News
9 years
Three weeks later—starting at about 7 a.m. Pacific time on Monday, Nov. 24—a crushing cyberattack was launched on Sony Pictures. Employees logging on to its network were met with the sound of gunfire, scrolling threats, and the menacing image of a fiery skeleton looming over the tiny zombified heads of the studio’s top two executives.
Sony Pictures: Inside the Hack of the Century, Part 1 - Fortune
9 years
Amazing – was this image ever public before this?
Nas regularly donates old clothes to charities or makes gifts of items to family and friends, he explains. Asked if he’s held onto anything through the years, he replies, “not one thing.”
A History of Hip-Hop and Fashion, as Told by Nas
9 years
Wonder if Nas has given away Kelis' green wedding dress – the only item she left behind at his house, and the inspiration for one of the most brilliant album covers of all time
... to light what human beings keep hidden within them, not by the compelling power of hypnosis, but by observing what they say and what they show, I thought the task was a harder one than it really is. He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. And thus the task of making conscious the most hidden recesses of the mind is one which it is quite possible to accomplish” (Freud, SE VII, 78).
Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (II) | LACANONLINE.COM
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