“In 2005, Mr. Choe was invited to paint murals on the walls of Facebook’s first offices in Palo Alto, Calif., by Sean Parker, then Facebook’s president. As pay, Mr. Parker offered Mr. Choe a choice between cash in the “thousands of dollars,” according to several people who know Mr. Choe, or stock then worth about the same. Mr. Choe, who has said that at the time that he thought the idea of Facebook was “ridiculous and pointless,” nevertheless chose the stock.”
Probably worth a couple of hundred million dollars now!
(via For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches - NYTimes.com)
Source: The New York Times
Giant Peg! via Exposition d’Art contemporain dans le parc de Chaudfontaine (Belgique) (by mmarsupilami)
Source: Flickr / mmarsupilami
All dressed up and no-where to go!
Cool installation in Cape Town via Speed camera styled by CoeOne | Between 10 and 5
Source: 10and5.com
Making slums look more cheerful
These guys do great work!
Click on the photo to see large version, also click here www.favelapainting.com to see the whole gallery
Source: favelapainting.com
Deal in Microsoft-EU browser war
“Microsoft reaches agreement with European Union anti-trust regulators to allow European users a choice of browsers.” So says this BBC article.
OK, guys, enough already! Honestly, does it really matter who wins any more? Browser wars, shmowser wars. It’s not like you can’t download any browser you want. Usually for free too - except Opera! Ironic how they are one of the challengers in this case.
On the Windows platform there must be a dozen browsers to choose from. On Mac maybe 3, on Linux maybe 3 or 4. Yeah I know Microsoft was a bit of a bully 10 years ago about all this, but now browser democracy has meant people pick the one they want. It’s over folks, nothing to see here, move along mow.
By the way, did you hear about some EU policy-maker who insisted Microsoft ship Windows 7 without Internet Explorer at all? Picture the scene: Fritz buys Windows 7, rushes home to install it. He can’t wait to hop on the net to download his preferred browser of choice, so he fires up the browser… er… wait, there isn’t one. Tricky, huh?!
Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures
My jaw is still hanging open. I can’t stop staring at this sculptures. Please click through and look at ALL of them. I wish I could see them “face-to-face”.
Click through here for the whole series: Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures
Source: webdesignerdepot.com
Wonder if these cup-cakes are “palatable” ?
