Ari Herzog

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141,900 Blue Boxes

Ari Herzog

Third, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 requires the USPS to pre-fund future pension obligations for 75 years. UPS SurePost and FedEx SmartPost would stop, forcing those companies to deliver mail to customer destinations; but since when does UPS or FedEx deliver to the Grand Canyon or remote Alaska?

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

I was the creative director for a company doing online video and games. One night in 2006, over Tiger beer and carrot cake at a hawker center , my designer friend Little Ong told me about Multiply. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006. I opened an account as soon as I got home.

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Why I Want to Delete My Facebook Account

Ari Herzog

I am tired reading that Suzanne likes this band or that company. I remember synchronizing my email account’s contacts with Facebook’s universe of users and finding a handful of common users — usually, students from another college or a tech-savvy acquaintance who joined once Facebook allowed the world to join in 2006.

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