via hulu.com
Well played, SNL. Well played.
via grumomedia.com
Here's the latest of the great GrumoMedia's product demo videos - this one for Y Combinator company, the Fridge.
You'll remember Miguel Hernandez (maker of said video) from the fabulous "What is Hipmunk?" and "What is breadpig?" tutorial videos.
Fantastic stuff. If you'd like a product demo video of your own, email Miguel and let him know Alexis sent you! He'll take good care of you.
via thedailyshow.com
It's true, life is tough as a U.S. Senator.
So cool! Thanks to the Wired crew for a splendid evening and ridiculously well-run event.
PS, It's not too late to get a copy of xkcd: volume 0 in time for X-mas!
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are inviting universities around the world to create an engineering campus on city-owned land.
Despite being home to more college students than any other city in the country, New York lacks a top-rated engineering school. Without one, the city has fallen far behind San Francisco, Boston and other metropolitan areas in the competition to attract new technology companies and the jobs they create.
On Thursday morning, Robert K. Steel, the deputy mayor for economic development, announced that the city would seek a “top caliber academic institution” as a partner in building a school for applied science and engineering. The city is willing to consider locating it on one or more of its properties, including the old hospital campuses at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and on Roosevelt Island.
Fantastic news. The more creators of value we can educate in the city, the better. We'll see how long this takes to come to fruition, though...
An annual event in England where challengers chase a wheel of cheese down a hill was officially cancelled on health-and-safety grounds.
Brilliant. I've enjoyed their weekly email digests for years now.
via yalelawtech.org
Bravo. I hope they got a good grade for this production.
This also means Yale has accounted for two of my blog entries in the last week. Step up your game, Harvard...
I did [Y Combinator] in [redacted] as [redacted], we've since turned into [redacted] and become profitable. Thanks again for writing that visa letter for my co-founder [redacted], we would have gone out of business without it.
This is a startup, funded by Y Combinator, that barely survived the elaborate process to keep a co-founder in the country. I've known founders of Canadian origin who've had to leave the States before re-entering quite a few months later because of immigration problems. It's been a while since the Founder Visa was making the rounds on startup blogs, so let me resurrect it here.
There's already a talent battle going on, so let's add some more supply to the labor market and hand out some more visas to immigrants. If they're starting companies, or even graduating from our graduate schools, let's give them every incentive we can to stay. Not only is the food better back home, but the opportunities there are starting to rival what we can offer here in the USA.
I don't want to keep churning out these letters, but I most certainly will.
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