Stories by dsr12

How the World Gets Sick and Dies

Disney CEO went to Steve Jobs to find out if Disney films "sucked"

A hidden property empire grown with Mussolini’s millions

Hidden Meanings in Unilever Logo Finally Explained

How to email people when you screw up

Tree of Life (~3,000 species, based on rRNA sequences) [pdf]

The Only Good Reason to Launch a Company

Sworn Virgins: Men by Choice in the Balkans

Lease 2013, be the year of "shut up and work"

Google Declares War on the Password

Processing 100 Million Pixels a Day

If Apple's 4.8-Inch iPhone Is Called the iPhone Math, I'll Eat Paste

The World's Largest Natural Sound Library Is Now Fully Online

Harvard's next case study: The logistics and economics behind Kumbh Mela

Three prurient Reddit mods have been booted over corruption charges

As We May Think By Vannevar Bush [1945]

Reading Twitter's Tea Leaves: IPO Prep May Start This Year, Offering In 2014

There are just so many reasons to hate the Zipcar/Avis deal

Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Superproductive Programmer [2011]

A small C program to print the biggest prime number