| | | | | | | | | 2014-05-01 01:41:25 | Sam Laird | | | This story is brought to you by the year 2014, in which everything's a meme and anything can be a marketing ploy. The Toronto Raptors are giving away lint rollers at their Wednesday evening NBA playoff game against the Brooklyn Nets, ending (we hope) an eight-day saga that began when Drake — yes, that Drake, which we'll get to in a minute — used one of the sticky cylinders to brush some dirt off his shoulder lint off his pants at a game last week. See also: Sights on the NBA, Kiwi Gardner Concludes Explosive Rookie Year Drake, the international rap star who hails from Toronto, was named the Raptors' "global ambassador" in September 2013. So he was at the Raptors-Nets game on April 22, when NBATV cameras caught him courtside, vigorously lint-rolling his right leg (starting from the top and rolling downward, for the record). Read more... More about Nba , Entertainment , and Sports | | | | | | 2014-05-01 01:35:11 | Digg Top Stories | | | A second video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what has been described as crack-cocaine by a self-professed drug dealer was secretly filmed in his sister's basement early Saturday morning. | | | | | | 2014-05-01 01:30:17 | Bloomberg | | | When Darren Huston , chief executive officer of the Priceline Group , has a decision to discuss with one of his managers, he often heads outdoors for a walking meeting, away from the hubbub of his open office in Amsterdam. "Walking clears my brain," he said. President Barack Obama understands. He often ends his working day, especially now that the weather is warmer, by walking around the White House grounds with his chief of staff, Denis McDonough . While conferring about the latest political and policy issues, he strides several laps on the asphalt loop around the South Lawn before joining his family for dinner. Read more... More about Barack Obama , Walking , Creativity , Efficiency , and Business | | | | | | 2014-05-01 01:27:25 | Digg Top Stories | | | Meet the only Wall St. executive prosecuted as a result of the financial crisis. Has justice been served? | | | | | | 2014-05-01 01:27:25 | Digg Top Stories | | | Jon Lajoie totally nails not only the music but the production values for every kind of commercial. | | | | | | 2014-05-01 01:27:25 | Digg Top Stories | | | Physicists from the FOM Foundation and the University of Amsterdam have discovered that the ancient Egyptians used a clever trick to make it easier to transport heavy pyramid stones by sledge. | | | | | | 2014-05-01 01:10:53 | Anita Li | | | Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is "ready to take a break" from the mayoral election campaign to "get help," according to a new report. Ford told The Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington that he realizes "It's time," and that he "[wants] to deal with his issues," the newspaper reported Wednesday night In an interview with local radio station Newstalk1010, Warmington said Ford is taking a 30-day leave from his job as mayor and from the election campaign Warmington: Ford taking 30 day leave from job as mayor and from campaign #TOPoli — NEWSTALK1010 (@newstalk1010) May 1, 2014 "He's got some real personal issues to deal with, obviously," Warmington said, according to The Toronto Star . "If I could speak for him, I think he's pretty embarrassed Read more... More about Us World and World | | | | | | 2014-05-01 00:59:26 | Karissa Bell | | | "We don't ever want anyone to be surprised with how they are sharing on Facebook," company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during his keynote at Facebook's F8 Developer Conference on Wednesday. Zuckerberg was referring to the social network's new login feat... | | | | | | 2014-05-01 00:47:57 | Ann-Marie Alcántara | | | The Montana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Stacey Dean Rambold must be re-sentenced by a new judge in the case of raping a 14-year-old. The former high school teacher was convicted of one count of sexual intercourse without consent in August — the judge at the time sentenced him to 30 days in jail. "[This new decision] rebuff[s] attempts to place blame on a child victim of this horrible crime," said Attorney General Tim Fox, according to the AP, who filed an appeal of the case. See also: White House Rolls Out Guidelines to Stop Sexual Assault With Star-Studded PSA The decision means that Rambold will have to be sentenced with at least two years in prison, the state minimum Read more... More about Us World , Us , Montana , Montana Supreme Court , and Stacey Dean Rambold | | | | | | 2014-05-01 00:45:58 | Andrea Romano | | | Imagine if your favorite arcade games could hang in an art gallery Artist Adam Lister combines the art world with the video game world by taking famous paintings and images from pop culture and painting them as 8-bit graphics. Lister begins with familiar pieces like Van Gogh's Starry Night or da Vinci's The Last Supper and transforms them into flat, angular shapes — all in stunning works of watercolor. See also: 8-Bit 'True Detective' Solves Yellow King Case in 90 Seconds "These pictures are like puzzles, carefully taken apart and then pieced back together to reveal the subject. By referencing classical works of art, and nostalgic scenes and objects, I find these works to be transformations of images that have a collective familiarity," Lister wrote to Mashable . Read more... 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