Gawker
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Tweed?
L.A. Weed Dealer Finally Finds a Use for Twitter
California won't let the gays marry but it does let people micro-blog (medical) drug deals. Meet former Northwestern J-school student Dann Halem, who is building an online business selling weed on Twitter. How is this possible you ask? More »
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Comment by metoometoo: Gawker is never more ignorant or tone deaf than when attempting to discuss medicinal marijuana in California. You guys just... 19 Responses | Other threads
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mysteries
Pot Behind PC World Editor's Slaying, Accomplice Confirms
Courtroom testimony appears to have solved the riddle of why tech journalist Rex Farrance was killed in a seemingly bizarre 2007 slaying: The thieves knew about all the pot stashed in his San Francisco Bay Area home. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Miss Anita Manbadly: And this is why legalizing pot will work and is necessary. People won't have to (or be allowed to)... 5 Responses | Other threads
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drugs
Which Venture Capitalist Is A Closet Pothead?
Justin Hartfield, the proprietor of online pot-dispensary locator WeedMaps, says a prominent VC has offered to buy the site himself — but doesn't want his employer's name aired in public. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by seekingwhat: 420% of people in the United States are potheads. The rest are closet potheads. The other rest need to chill. 1 Responses | Other threads
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silicon valley tool
Facebook Backer Wishes Women Couldn't Vote
Peter Thiel, foremost among Silicon Valley's loopy libertarians and the first outside investor in Facebook, has written an essay declaring that the country went to hell as soon as women won the right to vote.
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By Owen ThomasComment by bittergreen: Maybe he's arguing correlation, rather than causation. Really, did anyone take that as an argument against women's right to vote. Would someone... 15 Responses | Other threads
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drugs
For layoff pain, you really can't beat nitrous oxide
A tipster swears he saw a Six Apart employee "at a bar in the Lower Haight today inhaling massive amounts of Nitrous Oxide in the corner and passing it around, no joke. I wonder if he was laid off." Do you know what that stuff costs? It's far more likely that Mr. Whip-It still has a job, and can't show up drunk today.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Uncle-Sam's Littlle Helper: I could have told you tjhat 5 years ago. At my High (sic!) School people did that NO2 stunt and... more » | Other threads
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salvia
Salvia Users Fight For Right To Legal YouTube Wackiness
Country politicos are still trying to ban salvia! How uncool. And it's all YouTube's fault. We warned you in May that New York was moving to outlaw salvia—the legal drug that really works, if you like falling down—based largely on the impression that hick State Senators got from America's dumbest teenagers posting their tripping experience videos online. Salvia is about fifty times more potent than weed (and "twice as prevalent as LSD," dang!), so it wouldn't be surprising if it was banned, though it would still be stupid. What's the danger? Driving on salvia? You'd be lucky to be able to find your keys. Now, in one of those laughable righteous battles between party stoners and philosophical stoners, the real salvia spiritual journeymen are speaking out against those god damn YouTube posers: More » -
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British dotcom millionaire in rape-and-drugs row
David Atherton, a British entrepreneur who sold e-commerce site Dabs.com to BT for $55.7 million in 2006, is going to need some of that money for his legal defense. A 49-year-old woman has accused him of abducting and trying to rape her in his $2.8 million home. Police also charged Atherton with "threats to kill, false imprisonment and possession of a Class A drug," which could be ecstasy, LSD, heroin, cocaine, crack, mushrooms, or amphetamines. Not, as far as we can tell, OC-40.
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Comment by Shadowlayer: Who in his right mind would rape a 49-year-old woman? Seriously, at that age sex requirements are pretty low... more » | Other threads
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drugs
TechCrunch discovers Provigil
I have to admit, before I signed on to Valleywag, I had a few issues with the "OC-80 scare of '07." Sure, maybe jaded VCs or entrepreneurs who'd already cashed out where taking strong painkillers, but up-and-comers? They're going to be on antidepressants like Wellbutrin and Effexor — Prozac and Zoloft are old news — and stimulants. So it was some amusement that I read Provigil has become popular. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by Carlos: I loved provigil, but the stuff made my bowels uproarious. more » | Other threads
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crime
Sex, drugs, and violence: The 10 surprises in Henry Nicholas's indictment
Nothing former Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas did is particularly remarkable to anyone who's enjoyed Brett Morgen's The Kid Stays in the Picture biopic about the life and times of Robert Evans. What's remarkable is that it was a technology CEO in Orange County and not someone in the abnormally amoral entertainment industry. As cynical and jaded as we may be about the foibles of the ultrarich of the Valley, even we were surprised by some of the stunts detailed in the allegations, if only for their naïveté. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by DanLar75: MY HERO! When you smoke enough to give your pilotes a contact high and YOU ARE NOT IN THE COCKPIT... more » | Other threads
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henrynicholas's
The Turnberry condo
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Eleven Ways The Internet Can Kill You
While I was pulling an all-nighter this weekend watching YouTube, my stomach started to growl even though I'd had like a whole thing of goldfish crackers and a bottle of Kahlua, and as I popped a diet pill and scratched a couple scabs off my forearm, I had a vision of the eleven ways the Internet could kill you. (Please don't sue: Of course not all the sites and practices listed below are directly responsible for any deaths. But if you're already at risk, you might just get yourself killed when you use them.)
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By Nick DouglasComment by raincoaster: See, if you sub in gin for Kahlua you never have these problems. Trust. more » | Other threads
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the 250
How StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp rolls
A tipster — tipsy? — shares this information about StumbleUpon founder and The 250 member in good standing Garrett Camp: "If you meet Camp, get his business card. Get several, if you can." Whatever for? "The cards are prized in certain SoMa circles, but not for the information printed on the front: They're ideal for rolling roaches. True, any unlaminated card can suffice, but apparently the cardboard in Camp's cards is the 'perfect consistency' for joints." If you find yourself in immediate need, Camp's office is directly above the 111 Minna art gallery in San Francisco. Smoke 'em if you've got 'em. (Photo via Technology Review)
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By Owen ThomasComment by Hez: Joints rolled with your ex-employer's business card as the filter are the way to go. Especially when you can still... more » | Other threads
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deathwatch
Inside Capazoo's drug-fueled implosion
The Montreal-based social network that's teetering on the edge of extinction was a family affair, both in the nepotism sense and allegedly in the mafia sense. That's according to a former employee who sent in an epic tale of sex, drugs and shady business dealings under CEO Luc Verville, pictured here in happier times. His brother Michel, a cofounder, was kicked out of the company — but not before generating some serious ill will among employees:- The flip side of the founder's coke addiction was a black market Viagra dealer in the office who supplied him, which enabled him to brag publicly and often about having sex with his 20-year old girlfriend several times in one day.
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By Jackson WestComment by colonelpanic: @Rachel Marsden: You're a very sick girl, Rachel. Based on observation of your behaviour simply on Valleywag, I suspect... more » | Other threads
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deathwatch
Coke-addict startup founder snows Capazoo under
Capazoo, a Canadian social network which promised to pay users for signing up friends, is is going under. The company has fired its 60-person development staff, which took two years to launch the site, and ended up attracting a little over 10,000 users. The best part of the site, by far, is its deadpan Web infomercial, where users like Corey Vidal, pictured here, talk about how they didn't make any money off MySpace or YouTube. TechCrunch reports that founders Michel and Luc Verville allegedly took $2 million out of the $25 million in venture capital the company raised. It doesn't mention what they spent it on. Here's the report from a company insider:The one brother has a notorious coke addiction that was obvious to all investors he approached (it was a constant discussion among VCs, employees and anyone close the company) and the two brothers ended up fighting over the company, with one being ousted and them suing each other in court.
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drugs
Did OC-80-addicted VCs fund this guy's startup?
"Maybe things are different down south than in the city," writes commenter mercurius2, "but I've never run across oxycontin or talk of its use in the high tech world up here. Bong hits in the court yard, roof, hall closet, boss's office, elevator, under the front desk, cubicles after hours, boss's bedroom, that I might believe."
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drugs
In 2006, 16 million Americans over the age of 12 illegally obtained and used prescription pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants or sedatives. That's up from 14 million in 2004. 1 in 20 high school seniorsare addicted touse one such drug, OxyContin. This kind of drug abuse led to 600,000 emergency room visits in 2005. In 2002, there were already more deaths caused by opioid painkillers than heroin or cocaine. But don't worry, experts assure us that none of this is going on in Silicon Valley. [WSJ] -
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Does Yahoo have a drug problem?
A tipster chimes in to tell us that Silicon Valley's OC-80 addiction took firm hold in one of its fastest-declining companies, Yahoo.Right now I'm working a contract for a company and the last person i interviewed with — a former Yahoo employee — asked who I knew at Yahoo. I told him and he's like ohhhh yeah all the great times, i remember we'd do OC and other stuff in the bathrooms.
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celebritards
Silicon Valley's favorite drug helped kill Heath Ledger
Medical examiners have released results of Heath Ledger's toxicology report earlier today. The young star died of an accidental overdose — an "acute intoxication" — from the combined effects of hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, doxylamine and oxycodone. The latter is the active substance in Silicon Valley's drug of choice, OxyContin. -
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Pitching a VC? Bring the OC-80 or you're fired
Back in December, we introduced you to OC-80, Silicon Valley's recreational drug of choice. It's the 80-mg. dose of OxyContin, the addictive painkiller which ensnared celebritards Rush Limbaugh and Lindsay Lohan. Silicon Valley's venture capitalists are just as susceptible to OC-80's euphoric draw. Which is their own private problem. Usually. But sometimes, as in the story told here, a founder's ability to supply an addicted VC with his fix can mean the difference between getting funded and laying off staff. More »
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Comment by Nicholas Carlson: @mercurius2: It's not about the money. It's about who's willing to put their own name on a prescription. more » | Other threads
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geeks gone wild
Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen is "sobbing with excitement" over the news that a newly discovered drug, orexin A, eliminates the effects of sleep deprivation. "SIGN ME UP!" [blog.pmarca.com]
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dweezil: I hope this thing is ready to go by the time I hit graduate school. more » | Other threads
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drugs
Snort a little of this and you'll be wide awake
UCLA prof Jerome Siegel discovered that the lack of a brain hormone called orexin A causes narcolepsy, Wired reports. So what'd he do? Have a bunch of sleep-deprived monkeys snort the stuff and see how they perform on tests, of course. More »
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drugs
OC-80, the Valley's drug of choice
Heard of OC-80? It's the Valley's next big drug, the strongest dose available of OxyContin — the same pain pills that got Rush Limbaugh hooked. A Valleywag informant who's a recovering OC-80 user himself says addicts are easy to spot: They're the ones who keep rushing to the front desk, asking if the FedEx deliveries have arrived yet. That's because the pills which get here are most frequently overnighted from L.A., where doctors are more willing to skirt the law and write prescriptions. It's expensive, and therefore deemed classy: People pay $70 a pill retail, $40 in bulk. Not that you're going to look especially swank while you scrape off the green coating, crush it, and snort it. Here's our tipster's tale of the real OC. More » -
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Mitch Kapor, chairman of Linden Labs, on the potential of virtual worlds: "It reminded me of a drug experience in the days when we didn't know a dangerous recreational drugs could be." [CNET] -
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Youtube's lost innocence
Every time a new communications platform comes along — the video sharing site, virtual worlds, the internet itself — the tech true believers persuade themselves that the world's been made anew. But, like stubborn legacy code, evil endures: the family of one cocaine trafficker, who was cooperating with the government, received a video death threat over Youtube. The Google video site has been served with a search warrant for records. It's not like this is the first time a new medium has been poisoned: Al-Qaeda, which uses free email services such as Hotmail to disseminate instructions to operatives, has proven more adept in using the web than the US government. -
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What are they putting in the water over at Linden Lab?
Philip Rosedale compared Second Life to a drug-induced high, but he's not the first to make that comparison. From Adam Pasick's interview with Linden Lab chairman Mitch Kapor:I do think Second Life can be a mind altering experience — Second Life, SL, LSD ... maybe not an accident! When you're in Second Life and you're having a mixed reality event — the first one that did it for me was the Suzanne Vega concert, and I saw the movie that was made. I'm watching a movie that was shot on a computer of a concert with a virtual avatars, but the real music, with other people in and around and watching it. I'm going, what's real, what's virtual, and I realized those distinctions were artificial. It's all just as real, it's all just as virtual. And I felt like the walls dropped away, and the universe which has been a small room got a million times larger.
And then I saw the face of God, only He was a chick, and we made love, okay? And I didn't even need to purchase a genital attachment.
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By Chris MohneyComment by jaggedlittlehelper: Bah. Second Life is better than any of the alternatives, and most of the people who don't like it... more » | Other threads
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san francisco
Principles before Personalities
PAUL BOUTIN - Anonymous tip from a friend in town for RSA:Didn't see the news until just now about Newsom going into "rehab".
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By Paul BoutinComment by Wagner James Au: Goddamn, when will a disgraced public failure *not* blame alcohol abuse on a problem that has no direct relationship to... more » | Other threads
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san francisco
Gavin Newsom enters "rehab"
We might have hoped for a day free of news from Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's sexomatic mayor. However, it turns out that Mayor Newsom's "renewed vigor" involves entering a rehabilitation program to deal with his drinking problem. However, the Delancey Street Foundation program doesn't require residency, so Newsom won't be stepping aside as mayor. Despite Delancey's claims that it's "no lightweight or B.S." program, Newsom may not be getting "counseling" so much as "helping." In future, he promises to not to "screw the brains out" of his employees' wives so much as "get buzzed and cop the occasional feel." More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by chris m: Absolutely, if I have to say anything about it. I particularly love that first one. It's like he's about to... more » | Other threads
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drugs
Meth coffee
It may be a bad idea to code on heroin, but caffeine gets a four star review from one programmer. If that's the case, Meth Coffee may be just what the coder ordered. The San Francisco-based company promises its coffee will brighten "house chores and cut boredom like a goddamn razor." It's quite a promise considering it's just a plain bag of coffee with a little guarana thrown in there, but the name alone should sell the stimulant to sleepy programmers. -
silicon valley users guide
SVUG #2: Do tech people do drugs?
The better question is, "What kind of drugs?" Compared to New York, L.A, or D.C. the Valley is low on coke-addled dealmakers, drunk bosses, and celebrity rehab cases. But there's a decent chance some of the hardware and software you're using right now was conceived, and maybe implemented, by a big brain with a buzz on. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Jackson West: Late to the party, but would like to add that there are plenty of coke-addled, Valium-popping boozehounds. Go check... more » | Other threads
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marc canter
Marc Canter smokes up in Amsterdam
Before we show these photos of the founder of what became Macromedia (the creators of Flash, which powers games like these) — before we show photos of the alleged pot fiend smoking a joint, we'd like to note that photographer Dave Winer, who just uploaded them to Flickr, labels them as "A sequence of photos taken in a coffee shop in Amsterdam in February 2000." Even if all the signs in the background are in English. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by GeneralChaos: With or without the ganja, Canter is a nut job. Do not, I repeat DO NOT include him in... more » | Other threads
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marc canter
Marc Canter's sex, drugs, and rock-and-drool
Ah, the many myths of conference-hound Marc Canter. Overheard this week: More » -
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Which is funnier, the headline or the photo?
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dean kamen
Unintended consequences of geek fame
The Washington Post and "don't call me the Segway inventor" Dean Kamen want geeks to be famous. Rather than letting creative geniuses get all the glory for their piddly "Oscars" and their "works of timeless art," the Post and Kamen want kids to worship real role models like the Google guys and YouTube founders. More »
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