I live in Manhattan and work as the director of back-end development for Connected Ventures. We run 
I think that “beer” should sue the Ed Hardy people for defamation of character.
Hands on with the Motorola Droid (full coverage)
British artist Stephen Wiltshire is currently attempting to draw the Manhattan skyline from memory. since Monday October 26th. Wiltshire began filling in an 18 foot canvas at the Pratt institute, Brooklyn. The drawing is expected to be complete by Friday. You can follow his progress through the live webcam here.
Wiltshire diagnosed with autism at the age of three displays an unusually powerful photographic memory that he has applied to rendering city scapes. He can look at the subject of his drawing once and reproduce it accurately with photographic detail, down to the exact number of columns or windows on a building. He memorizes their shapes, locations and the architecture.This is absolutely incredible. Autism seems to be somewhat of a mystery as far as why so much detailed information is able to be retained. In the view of artistic endeavors, it blows the normal brain away. Here’s a video of Stephen taking a flight over rome and redrawing it from memory
i’m seriously thinking of moving to this phone
My predictions may actually be sound… People really hate AT&T.
I’m tired of dropped calls and no coverage. Dropping iPhone for Moto Droid and Verizon ASAP. #att #iphone #verizon
I called AT&T last night for the 50th time to bitch about why I had no service for 3 hrs yesterday. I will be follow in your foot steps by the end of the year. I’m waiting to see what new Android handsets make it out for holiday season. I recently wrote about why I think Android will beat the iPhone.
Wait, what?
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Pixar Intro Parody
Absolutely loved this!
Little late night goldeneye
BustedTees 10,000 Club
# of shirts sold
17831 - Stewart/Colbert
15682 - I’d Hit That
15634 - Never Forget
14356 - Second Amendment
12424 - Viva La Evolucion
12209 - Jesus Hates the Yankees
11169 - Dick in a Box
11113 - You Have Died of Dysentery
10445 - Vandelay Industries
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CollegeHumor is hiring a web developer...
Connected Ventures is seeking an ambitious, well-rounded PHP engineer. You will work closely with our team of developers on a number of large and high profile websites. The Connected Ventures properties include: CollegeHumor, Bustedtees TodaysBIGthing and SportsPickle. Collectively our sites reach over 12 million worldwide unique monthly users. Connected Ventures is part of InterActiveCorp (IAC), a leading internet company with more than 50 fast-growing web properties.
We’re searching for someone who has:
* Fluency in PHP 5 and the LAMP stack
* MySQL with performance tuning and scalability
* Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming
* Hands on experience with MVC Frameworks
* Caching / Scaling (Memcached, APC, etc.)
* Thorough understanding of HTML, Javascript, CSS and XML
* An understanding of the issues surrounding large-volume websites and scalability
* A preoccupation with staying on top of industry trends and technologies
Bonus Points:
* Experience with SPL a major plus
* e-commerce, credit card authorizations, and billing feature experience
* Linux or Solaris
* jQuery or Prototype
* Content Delivery Networks
* Version Control Systems (we use Subversion)
* Experience building scalable frameworks
Responsibilities:
* Implement major new features and feature improvements
* Track and squash bugs
* Optimize code and queries for better performance
* Database Architecting
* Work hard and play hard!
This is an on site, full time position at our office in Union Square, New York City. Please email your resume and code samples to techjobs@connectedventures.com. Please no recruiters or development shops.
