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Today’s links:

• NASA-backed SpiderFab robot aims to build 3D-printed spaceship parts in orbit www.theverge.com #

• The Free JavaScript campaign www.fsf.org #

• How to Survive Without Water mentalfloss.com #

• Is pot now essentially legal in America? theweek.com #

• Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013 www.theatlantic.com #

• HotWheels builds highest wall track ever in Barcelona www.autoweek.com #

• F*ck in the Linux kernel pastie.org #

Today’s links:

• NSA surveillance leaks: Snowden went over Obama's head www.slate.com #

• Codeship's Testing Tuesday #20: Continuous Deployment for node.js applications blog.codeship.io #

• 9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask www.washingtonpost.com #

Today’s links:

• How Podcasts Conquered Comedy www.newyorker.com #

• The Passions en.wikipedia.org #

• Gin and tonic kept the British Empire healthy: The drink’s quinine powder was vital for stopping the spread of malaria www.slate.com #

• This man is a shawarma ninja videos.digg.com #

Today’s links:

• Anatomy of a hack: How the SEA took down the NYT and Twitter gigaom.com #

• What Happens When You Stand For 2 Years arshadchowdhury.com #

• What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate (And How it Benefits You) lifehacker.com #

• Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew - Command Line Tools for XCode kennethreitz.org #

• Node Version Manager - Simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions github.com #

• Backbone-Associations: Backbone plugin to specify 1:1 & 1:N associations between Backbone Models dhruvaray.github.io #

• Why Backbone-Relational Sucks? www.to-string.com #

• Meet Armpits4August, the Female Version of Movember nymag.com #

• Coach Pelini Movie Night Phone Prank www.youtube.com #

Today’s links:

• Mass surveilance places politicians and the security services at loggerheads www.theguardian.com #

• Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web www.kickstarter.com #

• Australian Election: A Game of Polls [RAP NEWS 20] www.youtube.com #

• Roller coaster i.imgur.com #

• The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange "no money or makets" economy io9.com #

Today’s links:

• How might the feds have snooped on Lavabit? arstechnica.com #

• How Americans and Europeans see each other i.imgur.com #

• Music Festival Junkies - Music festival guides and news for US and Europe www.musicfestivaljunkies.com #

• This Japanese horse racing game might be one of the most bizarre video games ever created videos.digg.com #

• Have Archaeologists Discovered the Grave of Alexander the Great? intellihub.com #

• Air Guitar World Championships 2013 - in pictures www.theguardian.com #

• Dear Prime Minister Cameron - An open letter from Scandinavian media organisations www.aftenposten.no #

• To make journalism harder, slower, less secure pressthink.org #

Today’s links:

• Yo-yo tricks through the ages kottke.org #

• OpenStreetMap www.openstreetmap.com #

• Just Delete Me robblewis.me #

• What is Trex? docs.fargo.io #

• Incredible Bongo Band en.m.wikipedia.org #

• Trent Reznor en.wikipedia.org #

• The First Time With... Trent Reznor (BBC Radio 6 Music) www.bbc.co.uk #

• NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests blogs.wsj.com #

• Researcher reveals how “Computer Geeks” replaced “Computer Girls” gender.stanford.edu #

• Enough with the JavaScript Already by Nicholas Zakas www.youtube.com #

• We'll Call It Basebowl www.youtube.com #

Today’s links:

• How far the once mighty SourceForge has fallen… www.gluster.org #

• Google Designing Its Own Self-Driving Car, Considers ‘Robo Taxi’ jessicalessin.com #

• Building a Sails Application: Ep1 - Installing Sails and Create Initial Project www.youtube.com #

• Working With Data in Sails.js and Backbone.js net.tutsplus.com #

• Sails.js Chat application github.com #

• Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? blogs.hbr.org #

• Github, Object of Nerd Love, Makes Play for Non-Programmers www.theatlantic.com #

• *SPARK-DFUSER: Crossfading for laptops sparklive.net #

• Dangers of loneliness: Social isolation is deadlier than obesity www.slate.com #

• Why I ambushed Russia’s news network with rainbow suspenders www.washingtonpost.com #

• Objects and sounds in a third grade classroom, remixed by students boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• What Happened When I Had Sex Every Day For a Year www.huffingtonpost.com #

• 15 Really Strange Beaches www.theworldgeography.com #

• Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself www.theguardian.com #

• If It Fits, I Sits: A Supercut Of Animals Sitting In Small Spaces www.huffingtonpost.com #

• Titanic in colour www.retronaut.com #

• How To Do an American Accent - Part 1: Vowel Sounds - Amy Walker www.youtube.com #

• NodeJS + WebStorm : Getting Started / Debugging www.youtube.com #

• Fukushima Is About To Turn The Pacific Radioactive talkingpointsmemo.com #

• Drunk Vs Stoned www.buzzfeed.com #

• CNN can't be bothered to address Manning as female boingboing.net #

• Magic Beard boingboing.net #

• Flying from Mt. Everest - The Mission - World Record BASE Jump www.youtube.com #

• NSA's surveillance programs are the "most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen." boingboing.net #

• Ferdinando Buscema - Magic and Management tedxtalks.ted.com #

• Ferdinando Buscema at IED Milano www.youtube.com #

• MakerBot’s $1,400 Digitizer Now Available To Pre-Order, Will Ship By Mid-October techcrunch.com #

• Splitboarding 101 - Snowboarding meets Skying www.youtube.com #

• Mike Tyson And Evander Holyfield Reminisce About The Biting Incident deadspin.com #

• "Tepco Has Lost Control" - What Is Really Happening At Fukushima In Four Charts www.zerohedge.com #

• Jeff Jarvis: As a Democrat, I am disgusted with President Obama www.theguardian.com #

• Burned out: tech money is harshing Burning Man's anti-capitalist vibe www.theverge.com #

• Lead Belly - Wikipedia - Huddie William Ledbetter en.wikipedia.org #

• Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene www.youtube.com #

• Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (MTV Unplugged) www.youtube.com #

• How To Learn Any Accent - Amy Walker www.youtube.com #

• Eunice Gets a Diet Book - Comedy Sketch www.youtube.com #

Today’s links:

• For the Rest of the Year, Humans Will Use More Resources Than the Earth Can Provide motherboard.vice.com #

• Coolio Selling Off Music Catalog to Fund Chef Career www.rollingstone.com #

• 'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attempting to do www.theguardian.com #

• Ungit – Git UI that makes you understand git news.ycombinator.com #

• Ungit video introduction www.youtube.com #

• Lavabit founder: 'My own tax dollars are being used to spy on me' www.theguardian.com #

• Dispatch from Black Rock City: "The pigs are here" at Burning Man boingboing.net #

• I Went to Corey Feldman's Birthday Party www.vice.com #

• Merge design, print & promo - Ottawa Print shop www.printshopscanada.com #

Today’s links:

• David Miranda's lawyers nastygram the UK government boingboing.net #

• Here’s how Beats Music is curating its subscription service gigaom.com #

• RV Drivers Can Tow Using Their Full Ontario Class G Licence www.passthewheel.com #

• Canada - Ontario Driving Licence Types www.mto.gov.on.ca #

• Party at the NSA boingboing.net #

• NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files www.theguardian.com #

• Argument: When losing is winning boingboing.net #

• In a Washington sports bar, patrons with pot are living the high life www.latimes.com #

• Salary Negotiations Tip: Rule #2/5 m.youtube.com #

• Loyalty and Layoffs heartmindcode.com #

Today’s links:

• Tech industry slips into a surprising slump www.latimes.com #

• Al Jazeera America readies for launch with bold 'real news' formula www.theguardian.com #

• The International Olympic Committee Can't Keep Dodging This Simple Question www.buzzfeed.com #

• Groklaw shuts down over email snooping - "the Internet is over for me" www.groklaw.net #

• Burning Man drone rules boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Why I Left Google medium.com #

• Game of Drones video: Shotgun vs. Drone boingboing.net #

• Pete Doherty: he's opened a shop in Camden market www.theguardian.com #

• What if the president lied to us? www.salon.com #

• Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command-line jeroenjanssens.com #

Today’s links:

• Interview with Marc Maron about comedy and his podcast boingboing.net #

• WTF with Marc Maron Podcast - Episode 415 - Simon Pegg www.wtfpod.com #

• Marijwhatnow? A Guide to Legal Marijuana Use In Seattle spdblotter.seattle.gov #

Today’s links:

• The Secret Behind America's Only Mile High Club Airline priceonomics.com #

• Banksy's anti-BP dolphin ride boingboing.net #

• Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" reenacted with librarians boingboing.net #

• Letters of Note: People simply empty out www.lettersofnote.com #

• Arc - Virtual Machines in the Browser blog.grunseid.com #

• Terms And Conditions May Apply (2013) - "This documentary should be mandatory viewing for everyone who uses the internet." tacma.net #

• Europe’s marijuana capital isn’t Amsterdam www.globalpost.com #

Today’s links:

• The Presurfer: Man On An Edge: What It's Like to Be A Window Washer In New York City presurfer.blogspot.com #

• The Innovation of Loneliness: short film based on Sherry Turkle book 'Alone Together' boingboing.net #

• NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen www.eff.org #

• Dutch ebook sellers promise to spy on everyone's reading habits, share them with "anti-piracy" group boingboing.net #

• Dive Into HTML5 - By Mark Pilgrim + the Community diveintohtml5.info #

Today’s links:

• The Internet’s Verbal Contrarian www.nytimes.com #

• Can You Diagnose a Manic Episode on Twitter? nymag.com #

• How to: Secure Erase your Solid State Drive (SSD) with Parted Magic www.youtube.com #

• Vintage Vice, a playlist of old-timey songs of drugs, sex, and booze boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• FileShredder Securely Deletes Files from Your Mac lifehacker.com #

• How to Make Yourself Indispensable at Work lifehacker.com #

• New Features of Firefox Developer Tools hacks.mozilla.org #

• IamA Guy who quit his job, sold his car, moved out and bought a one-way ticket to Africa. I spent the next year and a half traveling across the entire continent, mostly overland and solo. AMA! : IAmA www.reddit.com #

• Turn Alfred into the Ultimate Notes Manager mac.appstorm.net #

• The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet - Bruce Schneier www.theatlantic.com #

• How to Survive Doomsday, According to a Prepper doomsdaycastle.kinja.com #

• Secret Garden of Survival: How to grow a camouflaged food forest www.amazon.com #

• Maps of the world made with spirographs boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• NSA Uses Super Fun Game to Help Its Analysts Spy On Everyone gawker.com #

• Imprisoned by Innovation www.nytimes.com #

• Man with OCD Blows Internet Away with Hauntingly Stirring Love Poem gawker.com #

• I Can't Stop Watching This Cute Dog Play Fetch With Himself gawker.com #

• Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation www.businessweek.com #

• Russian highway - Truckload of gas cylinders explodes 39 times boingboing.net #

• INJECTABLE OXYGEN KEEPS PEOPLE ALIVE WITHOUT BREATHING techandfacts.com #

• Using Fargo to linkblog and tweet bsoist.smallpict.com #

Today’s links:

• Jacob Appelbaum: You broke the Internet - We're making ourselves a GNU one m.youtube.com #

• You broke the Internet - We're making ourselves a GNU one - Christian Grothoff, Carlo von Lynx, Jacob Appelbaum and Richard Stallman gnunet.org #

• Top 4 Record Smarter Shopping Tips www.vouchercodes.co.uk #

• Tips For Buying Used Vinyl Records musicmessenger.hubpages.com #

Today’s links:

• 3D Printing Will Explode in 2014 When Key Patents Expire mashable.com #

• Showterm - record terminal sessions and upload to the web showterm.io #

• MASSIVE ATTACK V ADAM CURTIS www.bbc.co.uk #

• HOWTO over-under cable-coiling for less tangles and longer-lived wires boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Stephen Fry: The Daily Mail and Lord Dacre appeasing again stephen-fry-me.tumblr.com #

• Adam Curtis: BUGGER - tales of secret service incompetence www.bbc.co.uk #

• The best Vines of 2013 videos.digg.com #

• Rolling Stone: Jerry Garcia: 1942-1995 www.rollingstone.com #

Today’s links:

• Tweet Button with Icon only dev.twitter.com #

• Her: Spike Jonez's new film boingboing.net #

• Schneier on Security: Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet www.schneier.com #

• Stolen computers arrive back at nonprofit - with apology note news.cnet.com #

Today’s links:

• Kickoffboost: Explore thousands of just launched products www.kickoffboost.com #

• Words - It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words - But this hour, we try to do just that www.radiolab.org #

Today’s links:

• Sex, lies, and subtweets: Ohio high school tormented by Twitter gossip www.theverge.com #

• How To Track Anything With Google Analytics Event Tracking www.youtube.com #

• Sterling's "The Ecuadorian Library" vs civil liberties groups boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Google burger: Sergey Brin explains why he funded world's first lab-grown beef hamburger www.theguardian.com #

• Kissyface awkwardfamilyphotos.com #

• Unexpected Ballers: Mormons In The Hood Schooling These Dudes In A Basketball Game www.youtube.com #

Today’s links:

• XKCD - FedEx Bandwidth what-if.xkcd.com #

• Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters watch.ecstasyoforder.com #

• MODERAT - milk vimeo.com #

• The Blast Shack - Geek Empire - Bruce Stirling (2010) medium.com #

• Bruce Sterling: The Ecuadorian Library or, The Blast Shack After Three Years medium.com #

• Audio-Technica AT-LP120 USB turntable Review www.youtube.com #

• DJ Booth Review: Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB Professional Vinyl DJ Turntable HD-Video www.youtube.com #

• JAY Z "Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film" www.youtube.com #

Today’s links:

• Oversight: the future of bland, corporate ubiquitous surveillance boingboing.net #

• All Is Lost - Official Trailer Premiere (2013) - Robert Redford Movie www.youtube.com #

• ChaMonsta ffffound.com #

• Cursed ffffound.com #

• Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe ffffound.com #

• Molly Drug Facts - MDMA Ecstasy Health Information www.refinery29.com #

• Telltale Language Reveals Who Is Keeping a Secret blogs.scientificamerican.com #

• 11 Occasions That Don't Call For A Selfie www.buzzfeed.com #

• The Royal Prank: The Story Behind The Worst Radio Stunt In History www.buzzfeed.com #

Today’s links:

• UK phone companies turned a profit by shoveling customer data into GCHQ's maw boingboing.net #

• Alice on a ladder, reaching for a book tattoo boingboing.net #

• FBI pays for malware so it can spy on us with our phones and computers boingboing.net #

• Why Russia Turned Against The Gays www.buzzfeed.com #

• Interns in the Age of the Employment Selfie nymag.com #

• Skateboarder Bob Burnquist's Backyard Dreamland devour.com #

• Car hacking code released at Defcon news.cnet.com #

• Top 10 Parenting Hacks lifehacker.com #

• Tracking Twitter Buttons in Google Analytics www.napkyn.com #

Today’s links:

• German animation explains the evils of ubiquitous surveillance boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Chromecast, Simply and Cheaply, Flings Web Video to TVs www.nytimes.com #

• Fargo Print Preview xangelo.ca #

• Introducing Outline Search for Fargo xangelo.ca #

• Intro to Fargo scripting scripting.smallpict.com #

• DaveNet: Men Stay Silent scripting.com #