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2013/11/30

Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them businessinsider.com #

Viral content is going to be a terrible business model pando.com #

Backlift enables designers and front-end developers to build and launch a website using Dropbox as the backend backlift.com #

Backlift, The YC-Backed Back-End Service For Front-End Developers, Launches A/B Testing Service techcrunch.com #

Susannah Breslin freelance journalist susannahbreslin.net #

Facebook use 'can reveal if you're a psychopath' - posting about prostitutes, decapitation, pornography and butchers means your a psycho thelocal.se #

Kinematics is a system for 4D printing - The system provides a way to turn any three-dimensional shape such as dresses into a flexible structure using 3D printing n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com #

The Sarah Palin Turkey Murder Video boingboing.net #

Node.js at PayPal - our web applications are moving away from Java and onto JavaScript and node.js paypal-engineering.com #

Remy Sharp - Optimising your devtools workflow by using watch expressions and live-update remysharp.com #

2013/11/25

Sarah Silverman On Jonah Hill's Roast Jokes: 'It Hurt, But I'll Defend It.' digg.com #

Revenge porn is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cyber-domestic abuse arstechnica.com #

Art Makes You Smart nytimes.com #

News Anchor's Epic Rant Against Snow-Covered Patio Photos digg.com #

Life of solitude: A loneliness crisis is looming theglobeandmail.com #

Software Is Reorganizing the World wired.com #

A Dramatic Reenactment Of A YouTube Comments Fight digg.com #

2013/11/24

This Starship Enterprise Of The Sea Will Launch Its Exploration In 2016 fastcoexist.com #

Mad Men with party horns in lieu of cigarettes boingboing.net #

The exponential growth of Bitcoin value explained bitcoinowl.com #

Ison: The comet of the century - Astronomers hope that on 3 December a comet will appear on the eastern horizon bbc.co.uk #

Science Museum London to sell MakerBot products and "3D: printing the future" exhibition on display through February 2014 makerbot.com #

2013/11/23

A short guide to Connect Middleware stephensugden.com #

Rollerball pen draws conductive circuits boingboing.net #

Germany threatens to jail Carl Malamud for making the law available for free boingboing.net #

LG TV logging filenames from network folders rambles.renney.me #

Sarah Silverman on Changing Her Comedic Identity and How the Real Housewives Inspire Her Deepest, Darkest Material vanityfair.com #

The world's food supply depends on Morocco globalpost.com #

A Topless, Chainsaw-Wielding Ukrainian Woman Chopped Down A Crucifix To Protest Pussy Riot motherboard.vice.com #

The incredible story of Marion Stokes, who single-handedly taped 35 years of tv news fastcompany.com #

2013/11/20

Dynamic tangible display renders 3D data in physical form boingboing.net #

How Three Decades of News Coverage Has Shaped Our View of the World - Interesting maps showing the distortion news coverage creates theatlantic.com #

Obama’s Secret Attempt to Ban Cellphone Unlocking, While Claiming to Support It slate.com #

Bob Dylan - Live a rolling stone interactive video - pretty amazing watch several times video.bobdylan.com #

The Antique Phonograph Music Program Podcast wfmu.org #

What It's Like to Fail priceonomics.com #

2013/11/19

Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Ms. Male Character boingboing.net #

You can't beat politics with technology, says Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde - urges people to dispel their political apathy to prevent the emergence of a new Stasi-style era of oppression wired.co.uk #

5 Advanced Javascript and Web Debugging Techniques You Should Know About techblog.badoo.com #

Two million Raspberry Pi sold in under a year raspberrypi.org #

Secure, Free, Incremental and Instant Backups for Linux grepular.com #

U.S. Agencies to Say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits bloomberg.com #

Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published nytimes.com #

2013/11/18

The First Time With... Matt chats to Kim Gordon, formerly bassist, vocalist and guitarist with Sonic Youth, about key first musical moments in her life (Radio 6) bbc.co.uk #

Brewed free in catalonia - In Catalonia, booming local microbrews are just another way for people to express their independence roadsandkingdoms.com #

2013/11/17

Introduction / Refresher To DOM Events coding.smashingmagazine.com #

It happened to me: i'm living like i'm in the victorian era -- from corsets to washing bowls to writing in liquid ink xojane.com #

Roll your own Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync on Amazon EC2 samglover.net #

When a Guy is Bullied, He’s “Not a Man.” When a Female is Bullied, She’s “Just a Woman.” slate.com #

2013/11/15

Punk episode of BBC current affairs TV show (1977) boingboing.net #

Upworthy - The Internet's latest viral wizard matches smart technology and lily-white earnestness to market "stuff that matters" online theatlantic.com #

Kids To People Who Are Afraid Of Gays: 'If I'd Have Gotten A Bunch Of Microscopes, Would I Be Gay?' upworthy.com #

A Marine Was Assaulted - Her Commander Said She Deserved It For Wearing Running Shorts upworthy.com #

EFF: Stop Secret Copyright Treaties - Tell Congress to Stand Up For Users' Rights action.eff.org #

What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interview brandonb.cc #

2013/11/14

Hawaii legalizes gay marriage boingboing.net #

Netflix ditches Webkit to roll out slick new UI for smart TVs, Roku boxes and game consoles gigaom.com #

Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt before abolishing it theguardian.com #

2013/11/10

Power Plants and Other Vital Systems Are Totally Exposed on the Internet wired.com #

The Curious Case of Polywater slate.com #

Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location tynan.com #

2013/11/09

First 3-D-Printed Metal Gun Shows Tech Maturity spectrum.ieee.org #

California On Isla Vista youtube.com #

Cafe Oto, London - Guitarists Kim Gordon, from Sonic Youth, and Bill Nace play noisy experimental music to promote the album Coming Apart visitlondon.com #

Kool Kickstarter Project - The Electric Loog is a small, electric 3-string guitar kit designed to make it fun and easy to play music kickstarter.com #

Elon Musk lost $1.5 billion in the last two days deathandtaxesmag.com #

Fundamentally, surveillance is a business model of the Internet technologyreview.com #

ZURB Ink: Open Source Responsive HTML Email Framework designinstruct.com #

Stackdock: Blazing Fast Docker-as-a-Service with SSDs – for $5 blog.copper.io #

Cornel University Research Paper - Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable arxiv.org #

Incorporated – Open Sourcing Our Blog blog.sendtoinc.com #

Australian bitcoin user TradeFortress says site hacked, $1 million in virtual currency stolen abc.net.au #

Man-made earthquakes are becoming a real problem geek.com #

Malcolm Gladwell on God and Glenn Beck newrepublic.com #

America’s Media Guzzling Ways theconnectivist.com #

Hands-on with the Xbox One: Kinect, interface, and OS impressions arstechnica.com #

2013/11/07

WTF - Johnny Knoxville talks about his family history wtfpod.com #

MTV tribute to Ryan Dunn youtube.com #

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It wired.com #

Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests - PBS Blank on Blank series boingboing.net #

As Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High, Analyst Explains Why It Has Come Back From The Dead businessinsider.com #

We Work Remotely is the best place to find and list jobs that aren’t restricted by commutes or a particular geographic area weworkremotely.com #

Here's The Cool Lesson That Was Delivered To Teach Twitter Engineers About Personal Finance businessinsider.com #

Alfred Russell Wallace - The Man Science Forgot - Animated story video about the other guy to discover natural selection digg.com #

2013/11/06

Lou Reed by Patti Smith newyorker.com #

Liam Morgan uses snowboarding techniques while skateboarding down some of the long, steep, twisting roads in the coastal canyons of Los Angeles boingboing.net #

2013/11/03

I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb needwant.com #

Autodesk's Idea to Knit the Hyperloop Out of Carbon Fiber businessweek.com #

Europe's spies work together on mass surveillance reuters.com #

A series of challenges to help you get your hands dirty with MongoDB, one of the world's fastest growing NoSQL database technologies talentbuddy.co #

Latest Snowden Leaks: Everyone Is Spying On Everyone and Sharing It motherboard.vice.com #

Exit Through the GIF Shop: #BanksyNY Animated animalnewyork.com #