This web game couldn’t be simpler: it times how quickly you can knock out the ABCs on your keyboard. That’s it! (Mitchell tells me that this game is a favorite of Marques Brownlee’s.) Anyway, in two attempts I got 4.337 seconds. Try and beat that!
Updated: Monica tops The Verge’s leaderboard at 3.150 seconds.
[typethealphabet.app]
For $75,000—and one agonizing operation and recovery later—you can add about three inches to your height via leg lengthening.
Among the many details in this remarkably written GQ story, one surgeon notes that this procedure is getting more popular among men who work in tech: “I got, like, 20 software engineers doing this procedure right now who are here in Vegas ... I’ve got patients from Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft. I’ve had multiple patients from Microsoft.”
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving ownership of his company away to “a specially designed set of trusts and nonprofit organizations,” ensuring its roughly $100 million a year in profits go to fighting climate change.
[The New York Times]
Refreshed t-shirts, and even stickers. Get them while you can.
[DFTBA]
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery — and the most profitable way to make a mobile game
