February 1st, 2012 at 8:27AM
This pattern? This pattern is called “warming” — and it’s Global. via my mom, who is not on Tumblr.

This pattern? This pattern is called “warming” — and it’s Global.

via my mom, who is not on Tumblr.

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January 20th, 2012 at 11:28AM
nytm: Jessica just sent a note to our members. We did it. Not just the NYTM — so many people and groups had a part of it — but wow, 2,000 technologists in the streets of NYC and our voices were heard. So proud to be an NY tech and NYTM member. ~NW

nytm:

Jessica just sent a note to our members. We did it. Not just the NYTM — so many people and groups had a part of it — but wow, 2,000 technologists in the streets of NYC and our voices were heard. So proud to be an NY tech and NYTM member. ~NW

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January 20th, 2012 at 11:24AM

bijan:

via newspeedwayboogie:

Cover Friday. President Obama does Al Green.

Love.

So good. 

This is why I put on my Obama underwear everyday.

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January 19th, 2012 at 4:41PM

nytm:

Our protest covered by the Rachel Maddow show yesterday

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January 19th, 2012 at 10:15AM
nytm: This photo really shows the scale of #nytmSOS today

nytm:

This photo really shows the scale of #nytmSOS today

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January 13th, 2012 at 12:50PM
Emergency NY Tech Meetup next Wednesday during your lunch-break. We will gather outside the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, both of whom need to come out against PIPA and SOPA. Please join (heck, it will be fun to see you) and pass on.

Emergency NY Tech Meetup next Wednesday during your lunch-break. We will gather outside the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, both of whom need to come out against PIPA and SOPA.

Please join (heck, it will be fun to see you) and pass on.

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January 5th, 2012 at 12:36PM
staff: November 6, 2007. I got on stage at the New York Tech Meetup to show off the newly redesigned Tumblr Dashboard, while Marco took photos from the front row.  The NYTM has been a staple of this industry since its beginning in 2004. Through their monthly events, the NY Tech Meetup has given countless startups support from an incredibly welcoming and encouraging community. So, it means a tremendous amount for Tumblr to return to NYTM, 4 years after our very own demo, as an Annual Sustaining Sponsor. We’re honored to help support companies developing great technology and couldn’t be more proud to call the New York tech community our home. So insanely thrilled about this. Having Tumblr join Google and Microsoft as one of our three Annual Sustaining Sponsors is an incredible testament to Tumblr and its remarkable accomplishments. It’s also an incredible acknowledgement to the broader NY Tech community: It’s amazing what we can do when we get behind our own and collectively work for their success.

staff:

November 6, 2007. I got on stage at the New York Tech Meetup to show off the newly redesigned Tumblr Dashboard, while Marco took photos from the front row. 

The NYTM has been a staple of this industry since its beginning in 2004. Through their monthly events, the NY Tech Meetup has given countless startups support from an incredibly welcoming and encouraging community.

So, it means a tremendous amount for Tumblr to return to NYTM, 4 years after our very own demo, as an Annual Sustaining Sponsor. We’re honored to help support companies developing great technology and couldn’t be more proud to call the New York tech community our home.

So insanely thrilled about this. Having Tumblr join Google and Microsoft as one of our three Annual Sustaining Sponsors is an incredible testament to Tumblr and its remarkable accomplishments. It’s also an incredible acknowledgement to the broader NY Tech community: It’s amazing what we can do when we get behind our own and collectively work for their success.

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December 19th, 2011 at 12:44PM

boycottbigotry:

Pickets swarm Lowe’s for pulling ads off Muslim show

Boycott Lowes. Cowards.

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December 18th, 2011 at 11:17AM
Perhaps my favorite American Pastime. Taken at the Devils game on Friday.

Perhaps my favorite American Pastime. Taken at the Devils game on Friday.

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December 3rd, 2011 at 7:37PM

Let’s remember, Newt famously dumped wife #1 for wife #2 while wife #1 was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. As in literally went to the hospital to present her with divorce papers while she was recovering from surgery for uterine cancer.

He eventually dumped wife #2 for wife #3 shortly after wife #2 was diagnosed with MS back in 1999. And he was having the affair on wife #2 with wife #3 while he was turning the country upside down trying to drive Bill Clinton from office over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

 — Josh Marshall on Newt Gingrich, back in March of 2011, even before anyone believed Newt could really be a contentant in this race it was just shocking he could be considered for it.
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November 1st, 2011 at 3:17PM
Love that Tumblr is highlighting New York City in their ad.

Love that Tumblr is highlighting New York City in their ad.

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October 14th, 2011 at 7:58AM

Promote your open hours with Widgets, Buttons, and Links

ohours:

Thanks to feedback from dedicated Ohours members, we’ve created a few tools to help you share your open office hours more easily with your community. 

Visit your Ohours widgets page to grab the code for a widget, button, or link to include on your own website, blog, or event. Let us know if you run into any trouble or would like help customizing your widgets.

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October 13th, 2011 at 1:11PM
The Mayor at the NY Tech Meetup on Tuesday.

The Mayor at the NY Tech Meetup on Tuesday.

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October 12th, 2011 at 3:20PM

In case you missed it, Mayor Mike Bloomberg awesome keynote at the NY Tech Meetup last night.

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October 6th, 2011 at 4:54PM
superamit: Two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor, who I’d gone to see the day before because I’d been feeling worn out and was losing weight, and wasn’t sure why. He was brief: “Amit, you’ve got Acute Leukemia. You need to enter treatment right away.” I was terrified. I packed a backpack full of clothes, went to the hospital as he’d instructed, and had transfusions through the night to allow me to take a flight home at 7am the next day. I Googled acute leukemia as I lay in my hospital bed, learning that if it hadn’t been caught, I’d have died within weeks. — I have a couple more months of chemo to go, then the next step is a bone marrow transplant. As Jay and Tony describe below, minorities are severely underrepresented in the bone marrow pool, and I need help. A few ways to help: If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy. If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event my friends are putting on. If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above. Thank you. jayparkinsonmd: My friend Amit Gupta founded my favorite photography site Photojojo. A few weeks ago, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Amit is one of the nicest, most genuine, most creative people you could ever meet. Prior to founding the awesome Photojojo, he also co-founded Jelly in 2006 in NYC, a coworking community, that’s now spread to 60 cities across the world and helped spark the coworking revolution. It looks like Amit will need a bone marrow transplant quite soon. We can help him with that. tony b: Unlike blood transfusions, finding a genetic match for bone marrow that his body will accept is no easy task. The national bone marrow registry has 9.5 million records on file, yet the chances of someone from South Asian descent of finding a match are only 1 in 20,000. This is where we come in. We’re going to destroy those odds. How? By finding and registering as many people of South Asian descent as we possibly can. Tests are easy– a simple swab of the cheek. If you’re a match, the donation involves an outpatient procedure. It’s not fun, but it’s not dangerous either. And doing it could save a life. We are encouraging anyone of South Asian descent to take a test to see if you’re a match.  You can get a free test by mail, or, if you’re in New York, you can join us Friday, October 14th for a special party to rally support. We’ll have test kits on hand at the party, as well as music, booze, and maybe even a photo booth. It will, for the first time, combine a House 2.0-style party with a New Work City-style party, and if you’ve ever been to either, you know they are always something special. Please spread the word and please do everything you can to help Amit beat leukemia. He’s a superstar. Much thanks to Tony and pals for organizing this event, and EVERYONE who’s been tweeting and reblogging. Please help get the word out any way you can. My life quite literally depends on it.

superamit:

Two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor, who I’d gone to see the day before because I’d been feeling worn out and was losing weight, and wasn’t sure why.

He was brief: “Amit, you’ve got Acute Leukemia. You need to enter treatment right away.”

I was terrified. I packed a backpack full of clothes, went to the hospital as he’d instructed, and had transfusions through the night to allow me to take a flight home at 7am the next day. I Googled acute leukemia as I lay in my hospital bed, learning that if it hadn’t been caught, I’d have died within weeks.

—

I have a couple more months of chemo to go, then the next step is a bone marrow transplant. As Jay and Tony describe below, minorities are severely underrepresented in the bone marrow pool, and I need help.

A few ways to help:

  1. If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.
  2. If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event my friends are putting on.
  3. If you know any South Asians (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, or Sri Lanka), please point ‘em to the links above. Thank you.

jayparkinsonmd:

My friend Amit Gupta founded my favorite photography site Photojojo. A few weeks ago, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Amit is one of the nicest, most genuine, most creative people you could ever meet. Prior to founding the awesome Photojojo, he also co-founded Jelly in 2006 in NYC, a coworking community, that’s now spread to 60 cities across the world and helped spark the coworking revolution. It looks like Amit will need a bone marrow transplant quite soon. We can help him with that.

tony b:

Unlike blood transfusions, finding a genetic match for bone marrow that his body will accept is no easy task. The national bone marrow registry has 9.5 million records on file, yet the chances of someone from South Asian descent of finding a match are only 1 in 20,000.

This is where we come in. We’re going to destroy those odds.

How? By finding and registering as many people of South Asian descent as we possibly can.

Tests are easy– a simple swab of the cheek. If you’re a match, the donation involves an outpatient procedure. It’s not fun, but it’s not dangerous either. And doing it could save a life.

We are encouraging anyone of South Asian descent to take a test to see if you’re a match. 

You can get a free test by mail, or, if you’re in New York, you can join us Friday, October 14th for a special party to rally support.

We’ll have test kits on hand at the party, as well as music, booze, and maybe even a photo booth. It will, for the first time, combine a House 2.0-style party with a New Work City-style party, and if you’ve ever been to either, you know they are always something special.

Please spread the word and please do everything you can to help Amit beat leukemia. He’s a superstar.

Much thanks to Tony and pals for organizing this event, and EVERYONE who’s been tweeting and reblogging.

Please help get the word out any way you can. My life quite literally depends on it.

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