Urban NYC farmers have set their eyes on a new prize: transforming privately owned backyards into lush, fruitful farmlands.
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Conan Twitter Tracker: How Conan Met Sarah
Conan has over 500K followers on twitter and is only following one person. A completely random stranger named Sarah. She’s 19 and from Michigan.

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Today at Vimeo we launch Statistics! This has been one of the biggest and coolest projects I have ever worked on. I am very happy with what we all accomplished and I am sure that the Vimeo community will agree. Big thanks to Sox, Cory, Joe, Ryan, Blake, Andrew, Andrea, Jack, and Casey.
Check out http://www.vimeo.com/stats now for the video and demo!!!
This is the longest thing we’ve ever worked on. The stats system is a monster from front to back, it records something like ~200M data points a day (and designed to scale much much larger) and spits it out in what I think is the prettiest and most intuitive analytics interface out there. Massive congrats to everyone involved but a special shout out to Kevin and Cory, who have been refining this for literally a year.
Looks really awesome guys. Congrats!
I know everyone is tired of health care reform and tired of me talking about it. But if you want to know what’s going on I recommend watching this video and the next one I’m about to post (Shields and Brooks ♥).
I know I also say this all the time but - The News Hour on PBS is the only real news show on television (doesn’t include TDS or Colbert) worth watching.
On a Bus From Brooklyn, the Party Rolls
Begun last month by the Rusty Knot’s owners, Taavo Somer and Ken Friedman, this shuttle was at first nothing more than a way to fill their bar on Monday nights in winter. Williamsburg seemed the perfect place to start, especially since many friends and regulars already lived there.
But what started as a means to an end is now a destination in its own right. With its minimal supervision (you must be at least 21), the ride is a reminder of when New York night life seemed to have no rules.”
This is the kind of thing I’d like to say I would enjoy but I really wouldn’t. I do enjoy the Rusty Knot though.
I made the mistake of looking at apartment listings this evening (my mom is thinking about getting a place in the city). This happens to me a lot when looking at real estate: I start out really reasonable but then I quickly get totally out of control. Here’s my latest obsession: it’s a 7,000 SF Triplex in a 1914 landmark Clock Tower building in dumbo with a private roof deck. 25Mil. No biggy.
I don’t actually have 25Mil on hand right now so I’m going to give you all the link in hopes that someone I know will buy it so I can rent a room. Dream Home.
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Now this is how you do a site takeover (and also how you continue the stereotype that latin people can dance).
This is so ridiculous it’s ridiculous.
Treo, an eight-year-old black Labrador from the Military Working Dogs, was presented with Britain’s Dickin medal, awarded for bravery and commitment in wartime, the highest military honor an animal can expect at the Imperial War Museum in London on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. Treo was decorated for his work sniffing out explosives in Afghanistan. (via Big Picture)
I’m not usually a big animal picture person but this one just gets me. look at that face!

