Who Made That Pop-Up Ad?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/magazine/who-made-that-pop-up-ad.html?hpw&rref=technology
When Brendan Eich set out to liven up the Internet in the spring of 1995, online ads were always banners: branded rectangles tucked into a home page. But over a 10-day stretch that May, Eich, a Netscape programmer and an amateur gymnast, worked up a ...
A Parodist Who Calls Himself Hanksy
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/nyregion/a-parodist-who-calls-himself-hanksy.html
RJ Rushmore, who runs the street art blog Vandalog, said he was among many who initially dismissed Hanksy as an opportunist. ?I thought it was not art, not brilliant, just taking the stupidest ideas and presenting them in ways that were very friendly ...
Who Owns This Image?
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/02/who-owns-this-image.html
The College Art Association report described one museum worker who was frustrated by a policy that forced her to buy permission from a licensing organization to reproduce a work of art that was in the museum's own collection and that it believed was in ...
Ariz. man who ensured others' dignity in death is repaid
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/14/man-who-paid-for-officers-funerals-honored/5480061/
The officer was just one of at least a dozen fallen Phoenix police officers who would be laid to rest under Scott's respectful watch at no cost to the families, police Cmdr. Tracy Montgomery said. All Scott asked for in return was anonymity. Montgomery ...
20 years for mom who allowed son, 4, to be beaten and hid injuries with make-up
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-mother-who-allowed-son-4-to-be-beaten-and-hid-injuries-with-makeup-gets-20-years-20140213,0,2860507.story
She was sentenced Thursday by by Judge Michael McHale. Prosecutors alleged at her trial that Pherigo allowed her son to be beaten by Jose Morales, 26, who lived with Pherigo and her son and two other children in the 4400 block of South Fairfield Avenue.
Meet Judge Arenda Wright Allen, who struck down Virginia's ban on same-sex ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/meet-judge-arenda-wright-allen-who-struck-down-virginias-ban-on-same-sex-marriage/2014/02/14/544d5bfa-9597-11e3-9616-d367fa6ea99b_story.html
The federal judge who struck down Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage Thursday is an appointee of President Obama and in 2011 became the first black woman appointed as a federal District Court judge in Virginia. Arenda Wright Allen, born in 1960, is a ...
Crowds Gather for Tanaka and Jeter, Who Is in a Joking Mood
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/sports/baseball/crowds-gather-for-tanaka-and-jeter-who-is-in-a-joking-mood.html
Coming from one of the world's most notable bachelors ? especially one who announced the previous day that he wanted to start a family ? these two words would be enough to mobilize a thousand gossip columnists and cause jostling to position satellite ...
Fregosi, MLB All-Star Who Became Manager, Dies at 71
http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Fregosi-MLB-All-Star-Who-Became-Manager-Dies-at-5235957.php
14 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Fregosi, a six-time All-Star who went on to become a pennant-winning manager during a 53-year Major League Baseball career, has died. He was 71. Fregosi died early this morning in Miami, according to the Atlanta Braves, for whom ...
