Further activity attributed to Mr Ulbricht took place on Stack Overflow – a question-and-answer website for programmers – where a user named Frosty asked questions about intricate coding that later became part of the source code of Silk Road.

BBC News: Silk Road: How FBI closed in on suspect Ross Ulbricht

Even the finest programmers could use a little help from their friends on Stack Overflow now and then. The site, which invites users to ask and answer one another’s questions about specific coding problems, has become a global hub for software engineers, catering to pros and amateurs alike. Silk Road mastermind “Dread Pirate Roberts,” it seems, was no exception.

Future Tense: Silk Road’s Dread Pirate, Ross Ulbricht, asked Stack Overflow question under real name.

And of course: Did the Stack Exchange staff members assist in the apprehension of Ross Ulbricht?

Having a public opinion on absolutely everything you love is no way to live

Kottke – On the regular

The End of Night author Paul Bogard: « [E]ight of every ten kids born in the United States today will never experience a sky dark enough to see the Milky Way« .

Kottke : The night light (SEP 11 2013)

Leonard died 20 August 2013 at age 87 – bookofjoe: August 24, 2013

SooursWiki : Jeux

ginette mathiot la cuisine pour tous – Google Search

At a soup kitchen in Harlem, Toyota’s engineers cut down the wait time for dinner to 18 minutes from as long as 90. At a food pantry on Staten Island, they reduced the time people spent filling their bags to 6 minutes from 11. And at a warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where volunteers were packing boxes of supplies for victims of Hurricane Sandy, a dose of kaizen cut the time it took to pack one box to 11 seconds from 3 minutes. [x]

-Ensemble, nous allons relire votre pièce. Puis, après, nous y ajouterons par-ci, par-là, quelques gags désopilants.

Cherchée longtemps. Mais you can’t hide from the internet.

The Food-Truck Business Stinks – NYTimes.com

In Ecuador, for example, it takes about 56 days and 13 separate procedures to get all the legal paperwork done to start a new business. In the United States, it’s an average of six days and six procedures. But if you want to open a mobile-food business in New York, it’s essentially like starting a business in Ecuador — and that’s if you can somehow arrange a permit