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	June 1st, 2012 駅前 Posted about 21 hours ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 吉祥寺。 Grubwithus (YC W11) raises $5M Series A from GRP Partners, Suster to join board Posted about 20 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous 1 Grubwithus has raised $5 million in Series A funding from GRP Partners and Lebanese entrepreneur Michel Daher, known for Daher Foods. The Y Combinator funded company previously raised about $1.6 million in seed stage funding from actor Ashton Kutcher, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Start Fund, SV Angel and individual entrepreneurs Yuri Milner, Matt Cutts, Paul Buchheit and Alexis Ohanian. As part of the Series A funding, GRP Partner Mark Suster will join the board. Read the full article on PEHub PlanGrid (YC W12) raises $1.1M to be the way all construction projects manage their plans Posted about 20 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous 1 One more Y Combinator startup from the March 2012 class has bagged a seed round of funding. PlanGrid, which has created a groundbreaking app for the construction industry, has raised $1.1 million from a notable list of backers. They include Suleman Ali, founder and CEO of TinyCo; Sam Altman, founder of Loopt; Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmail; Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team, Ray Levitt, Director of Stanford University’s Construction Engineering department; building-sector-focused Navitas Capital; as well as 500 Startups and Y Combinator itself. Read the full article on Techcrunch GoCardless (YC S11) launches PayLinks, a bit.ly for payments Posted about 20 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous 2 GoCardless, the Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2010 by Oxford graduates Hiroki Takeuchi, Tom Blomfield and Matt Robinson, is today launching a new product called PayLinks which aims to be something like a Bit.ly for payments. With its dead simple interface, anyone can create a shortened, tweet-friendly link in around 60 seconds, the company claims, allowing you to start collecting money online immediately. These payments can either be one-off requests (throw in on the keg!), regular/subscription-based (subscribe to my blog!), or pre-authorized. The latter, which makes sense for B2B scenarios, lets a company collect a pre-authorized amount over a pre-determined period of time. Read the full article at Techcrunch Stunning basilica photo reveals massive sunspot Posted about 19 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 Astrophotographer Stefano de Rosa truly captured the shot of a lifetime when he snapped this photo of the sun rising behind Turin’s Basilica of Superga, not simply because of the beautiful manmade structures in the foreground, but the massive solar storm in the back. Measuring 60,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) across, the massive sunspot was first detected on May 5, 2012. Mission scientists dubbed it a “monster sunspot” because of its large size. Although M-class flares are the second strongest, no interference on Earth is expected except for some brilliant Northern Lights shows and rare photographic experiences. Full story at Space.com. Things are heatin’ up. Doodling with DNA [video] Posted about 16 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! Forget the double helix, folks; the latest in DNA design is what you’re looking at above. Harvard researchers have “unzipped” the double helix of DNA to form all kinds of shapes, but not ones you could easily spot since each one only measures sixty-four by 103 nanometers. As Shane McGlaun at Technabob noted, this isn’t all fun and games in that scientists believe that manipulating DNA in different ways could provide the building blocks of a number of important inventions such as medicines (or super sneaky secret codes). Here’s a video explaining how they go about manipulating the DNA. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at ABC via Technabob. Fun with science. Mini Matterhorn by Coolbiere. A. Posted about 7 hours ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics 1 via 500px.com Partial Milky May Over Mt. Everest by Coolbiere. A. Posted about 7 hours ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics 1 via 500px.com   End of the Runway Posted about 7 hours ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics via 500px.com From the Photographer, David F. Brown: "This F-16C Viper, ran off the end of the runway at Air Venture 2011, better known as Oshkosh. The pilot was not injured. Before he could egress his stricken fighter, some kid behind me shouted out, "got it, it's already on YouTube!"" Photo Finish by David F. Brown Posted about 7 hours ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics via 500px.com Milky Way by Andrey Shumilin Posted about 7 hours ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics via 1x.com Aurora Boreale Over Norway Posted about 6 hours ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics 1 via juzaphoto.com   Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.