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Hasnain says:

"His views are less ambiguous when it comes to mandatory prison sentences. He spoke passionately about his friends who are serving time. “Jails are full of people for selling a plant that grows out of the ground—that 50 percent of people view as a medicine—that no one has managed to prove causes any harm whatsoever. Just seems crazy to me.”

“If you had a son, would you be okay with him doing this?” I asked.

“Probably not. If you get jammed up, you can become a convicted felon and that damns you to do it for the rest of your life, because you won’t get anything but a $7.50 an hour job—if that. You give somebody a felony record for life, what did you accomplish? You’ve just created a lower-class idiot that has to commit more crimes to survive.”"

Posted on 2014-04-23T17:02:22+0000

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Do Men Suck at Friendship?

The key to a long, healthy life is not exercise or diet. It's strong social connections – in other words, friends. The problem: Research shows that men suck at friendship.

Click to view the original at mensjournal.com

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Meet Mellow, the smart sous-vide machine.

Mellow is a sous-vide machine that takes orders through your smartphone and keeps food cold until it’s the exact time to start cooking. Tell it what to do, teach it what you like, and it'll do its best to make your life simpler.

Click to view the original at cookmellow.com

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Space Monkey | Beyond the Cloud

Store all of your music, movies, photos, and documents in the cloud and never have to worry about losing anything ever again. The future of data storage is here.

Click to view the original at spacemonkey.com

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My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player - Andrew Kelley

Over the past few years, I have been slowly but surely building my own music player. It's been a wild ride. The codebase has radically changed several times, but is always converging on a better music listening experience.

Click to view the original at andrewkelley.me

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Project Naptha

Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image.

Click to view the original at projectnaptha.com

Hasnain says:

I rarely install browser addons or extensions - after seeing this, however, I'm wondering what took the world so long to get this. This is amazing.

Posted on 2014-04-23T04:44:30+0000