Toronto News: Lottery winner Craig Henshaw paid a big price for his millions – thestar.com. Had to quit his job as a teacher and lost a bunch of his friends.

The frequent fliers who flew too much – latimes.com. American Airlines used to sell an unlimited lifetime business class ticket for $350K+. These people used the shit out of it.

Mozs $18 Million Venture Financing: Our Story, Metrics and Future | SEOmoz. very interesting write-up about SEOMoz’s new VC financing and how it all came together. Lots of interesting stats in the deck about revenue and customers.

At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero – NYTimes.com. 92 year old jewish vetran from Long Island made and shipped 300,000 bootleg DVDs to active duty soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.”

- President Barack Obama

African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes. [mamahope.org] – YouTube

SpaceX – Why the US Can Beat China: The Facts About SpaceX Costs. Elon Musk is just awesome.

Charlie Rose – Peter Beinart. interesting interview about the state of affairs with Israel and Palestine and the “Crisis of Zionism”.

Toronto News: Toronto transit: ‘Downtown’ relief line could be the subway suburbanites crave – thestar.com. I’d fully support that line. And if it made it’s way out to Liberty Village to help out the over-capacity King Streetcar that would be amazing.

Sun – An Online Portfolio Theme. We’ve decided to launch microsites for each of our new themes on 4ormat. Here’s the first.

Virtual Store | Well.ca. Well added a virtual shopping store near Union station. If you don’t already use Well.ca, you should be, they are awesome.

Bootstrapped Startup Saves Over $100K By Dropping IE | TechCrunch. We wrote an article about our experience trying to get a product off the ground and why we decided to not support Internet Explorer.

The people behind Canada’s most promising tech start-ups – The Globe and Mail. Usually, high-tech coverage in the Canadian press is pretty terrible. I thought these profiles were actually pretty great.

Things I learned the hard way at Amazon.com. I gave a lightning talk last year at Business of Software which had to be 15 slides long, 30 seconds per slide. This is a video of the presentation. I hope all former and current Amazonians enjoy this.

Draw Something Changes the Game Quickly for Omgpop – NYTimes.com. They were on track to go broke in May before Draw Something came out.

Lionel Messi never dives. awesome video. it’s insane how blatant some of the takedowns are and that he still gets away.

How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick | Underwire | Wired.com. This guy literally went from a commenter on reddit to a screenwriter on a multi-million dollar hollywood film in a week. Absolutely crazy.

The Perfect Runner. interesting looking documentary that is on CBC tonight.

Scrabble Typography Edition | Uncrate. typography + board game? get your nerd on.

Turkish Airlines CIP Lounge by Autoban » CONTEMPORIST. now that’s an airport lounge.