I saw Zuckerberg sitting alone on a picnic blanket and joined him. I had meetings later in the day, and happened to be wearing a suit (most people in Silicon Valley wear jeans and T-shirts). Zuckerberg told me to be careful not to get grass stains on my trousers and made some more room on the blanket for me. Then, without prompting, he said: “At least in the movie they got that part right. The first time I met venture capitalists, I really was wearing pyjamas.”

Great story. And the Brits spell pajamas weird.

"I’m going to die with my boots on."

— The late Leslie Nielsen

(Source: royalflushmagazine.com)

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54. During the filming of Groundhog Day, Bill Murray was asked to hire an assistant to act as a buffer between him and the studio. He deliberately hired a deaf mute who could only communicate in Native American sign language.

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"When Scott [Pilgrim] has to fight off Ramona’s seven evil exes, he goes into a kind of hyper-realized, video-game-riff, fantasy world that’s a lot of fast fun — particularly given Michael Cera’s very un-superhero-like body."

— Los Angeles Times movie critic Betsy Sharkey on “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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‘Jailbreaking’ iPhones and unlocking carrier restrictions legal, government says
Also ok: Hacking video games for security reasons, e-book audio software for blind people, and circumventing DVD locks for educational purposes.
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‘Jailbreaking’ iPhones and unlocking carrier restrictions legal, government says

Also ok: Hacking video games for security reasons, e-book audio software for blind people, and circumventing DVD locks for educational purposes.

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"I was down in Austin at South by Southwest, and you go at it hard down there — fun but, man, you need to sleep for days afterwards."

— Bill Murray in GQ

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"The trick is to pretend you’ve planned the whole thing out in advance. Don’t tell anyone, but when ‘Star Wars’ first came out, I didn’t know where it was going either."

George Lucas to the executive producers of “Lost”

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