Before Tumblr, Founder Made Mom Proud. He Quit School. - New York Times

But instead of trying to pry him away from his machine or coaxing him outside to get some fresh air, his mother, Barbara Ackerman, had another solution: she suggested that he drop out of high school to be home-schooled.

A Better, Brighter Flickr - Flickr Blog

At Flickr, we believe you should share all your images in full resolution, so life’s moments can be relived in their original quality. No limited pixels, no cramped formats, no memories that fall flat. We’re giving your photos room to breathe, and you the space to upload a dizzying number of photos and videos, for free. Just how big is a terabyte? Well, you could take a photo every hour for forty years without filling one.

A Guide for Game Hunting in England’s Premier League - New York Times

It will be noisier than you are used to. Emotions will be higher than they are at home. The food will be awful. People will be drunk. The weather will be bad. Many of the supporters, even the ones cheering the loudest, will not appear to be having fun as we know it, and will be expressing their feelings in novel combinations of swear words. The discomfort, the din, the rudeness, the cleverness, the chanting, the verbal abuse, the unalloyed ecstasy, the abject despair, the love, the hatred — all these are part of the ritual, essential to even to the most meaningless, late-season, non-standings-affecting match.

Google Glass Apps: Everything You Can Do Right Now - The Verge

From now on, the MyGlass site will be your home base for Glass configuration — the device itself offers little in the way of preferences, it’s more of a viewer for the content and interactions you enable from MyGlass. It's also easy to overload your Glass with contacts and apps, and since deleting cards from your timeline is a pain, you want to make sure all your incoming content is quality.

TextExpander Touch 2.0 Brings Fill-In Snippets, Formatted Text To iOS - MacStories

Fill-in snippets and a new editor make TextExpander touch 2.0 a fantastic new version of TextExpander that I highly recommend. I look forward to seeing how third-party developers will integrate with the new SDK – TextExpander is now an impressive time-saving utility, but its strength lies in the developer community.

Life On The Road - Learn Guitar With David Brent (Ricky Gervais)

Emotional Swing for English Soccer Club - New York Times

Others felt far less rosy. Of course they were ecstatic about winning the F.A. Cup, they said — how could they not be? After all, Wigan is the ultimate small-market team, put together for less than $30 million, or about $270 million less than the Manchester City team it beat at Wembley.

Credit Suisse Says Wearable Tech "The Next Big Thing" - Forbes

Wearable tech isn’t new but Credit Suisse (as cited by Barron’s here) is calling it “the next big thing” and forecasting the market to ramp from about $3B – $5B today to $50B over the next 3-5 years.

iOS default despair: Where Ars staff turns for better app experiences - Ars Technica

How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right - The Shape of Everything

I really want to use iCloud. But I just don't trust it and I don't want to waste my time implementing and debugging things when there's other syncing solutions out there that just work.

Orb Denied: Oxbow Wins Preakness in Upset - NBC Los Angeles

Two Kings of Racing Spoil Orb’s Bid for Crown - New York Times

Coffee Rites, and the Stories They Tell - New York Times

Caffeine has “insinuated itself into the workplace, and I don’t see anything particularly wrong with that,” Mr. Braun said. It used to be that it felt like a vice. But “the mass of research has failed to demonstrate that caffeine is bad for your health; it’s just not there,” he said.

Editorial: Apple's Billions are Building an Empire for the Future - Apple Insider

Another big thing Apple is spending its money on in 2013 is retail expansion and enhancements. The company intends to open around 30 new stores and replace 20 existing locations with larger ones, allocating about a billion dollars for this purpose.

HOW BING CROSBY AND THE NAZIS HELPED TO CREATE SILICON VALLEY - The New Yorker

Fast-forward into the mid-nineteen-forties. The Second World War had just ended. Americans were picking over the technological remains of German industry. One of the things they discovered was magnetic tape; the Nazis had been using tape recording to broadcast propaganda across time zones. It was a remarkable invention. Previous sound-recording technologies had used wax cylinders or discs, or delicate wires. But magnetic tape was remarkably fungible: it could be recorded over, cut and spliced together. Plus it sounded better.

Former Google UK exec alleges company misrepresented sales to avoid paying taxes - The Verge

Mafia, Horse Racing and Big Money Deals

Mafia Boss Peppe Pesce Gives Himself Up - BBC News

This week the boss of one of southern Italy's most powerful mafia dynasties sensationally handed himself in to police after three years on the run - and now faces 16 years in jail. The BBC was inside the police station when it happened.

2013 Preakness Stakes Positional Analysis - The Washington Post

Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr - All Things D

Sources said that as part of the deal, founder and CEO David Karp would continue to operate the business, with Mayer promising him a level of autonomy, despite the need to integrate closely with Yahoo too. He will be locked in, sources said, via a four-year deal that will reward him for performance of the business.

Top Shelf 011: OK Google, Let's Hang Out. (Video) - The Verge

Faced With Overload, a Need to Find Focus - New York Times

For more than a decade, the most significant ritual in my work life has been to take on the most important task of the day as my first activity, for 90 minutes, without interruption, followed by a renewal break. I do so because mornings are when I have the highest energy and the fewest distractions.

At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom - New York Times

They looked like real people as they nibbled on M&M’s and nuts at the snack bars. Except they weren’t; these “humans” were able to take pictures with their eyes and then post them to the Internet.

Justin Tucker Chasing Perfection In 2013 - Baltimore Ravens

Things are coming to an end, while others are just getting started

David Beckham exits as gracefully as one of his arcing crosses - The Guardian

Dell’s Earnings Fall 79% as Sales of PCs Fade - New York Times

22 workplace tips we learned from The Office - Yahoo

First Look: Evernote for Google Glass - Evernote

We believe that wearables are the next frontier in consumer technology and we’re hard at work building the Evernote for our wearable technology future. Today, you’re getting a glimpse of simple and useful ways that Evernote can be used with Google Glass. This is only the beginning.

Twitter for Google Glass - Twitter

Apple Announces 50 Billion App Downloads, $10,000 Gift Card Winner - MacStories.net

Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album - New York Times

In part, the promotional campaign for the album also looked back to an era before Twitter and free downloads. Daft Punk and its team orchestrated a suspense-building trail of hints about a new project with billboard ads and teaser minicommercials on TV. Deliberately frustrating fans who have become used to instant gratification, Daft Punk stoked anticipation and created an aura of mystery around “Random Access Memories.”

AT&T Offering Free iPhone 5 Handset With iPhone 4S Trade-In? - AppAdvice.com

Abra-Ca-Bacon, AllakaBAM! Angry Birds Seasons' Magical Update Has Arrived - AppAdvice.com

A day dominated by Google I/O with unsung heros, young and old, sprinkled in.

"TextExpander is adding fill-in support on iOS, using @xcallbackurl under the hood. Yes, @draftsapp will support it." - @agiletortoise on Twitter

Experience Google's 3.5-hour #io13 keynote in about 3.5 minutes. Give or take. - The Verge

All Things Google I/O 2013 - The Verge

"Here’s the iTunes link for the new Google Hangouts app on iOS." - @cultofmac on Twitter

Google Maps integrates Google Earth and Street View in completely redesigned interface - The Verge

At 20, Manny Machado has stardom, wife in near future - USA Today