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To-Do tonight: Jangl up some filet mignon and free booze

Nick Douglas · 10/18/06 04:14PM
  • Best. Party. Ever: At Jangl's bash tonight at San Francisco club Mighty, not only is there a menu including filet mignon and salmon mousse (longer menu after the jump), a hosted bar, and a live jazz performance by members of the company, but thanks to Jangl's service — an ID you can hand to strangers instead of your phone number — you can flirt without consequence!

Three Valley moguls dabble in humanity's future

ndouglas · 03/01/06 03:06PM

Former Paypal CEO Peter Thiel recently joined the board of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a transhumanist org seeking to "help ensure a safe Singularity" by ushering in an age of self-aware computers. But he's not the only Valley exec investing in weird dreams of a super-intelligent race. Here are the top three:

Imagined cities

Gawker · 08/31/02 07:42AM

There's something sad about a world in which the most fantastic buildings exist only in the imagination of movie set...