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2013/12/31 #

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2013/12/30 #

Today’s links:

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

  • Judge decides there is no recourse to challenge the collection of personal data because Congress never intended for targets to ever know that they were subject to this sort of spying www.washingtonpost.com #

2013/12/27 #

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  • Three decades after growing up in a European free-love commune, Paul-Julien Robert plunged into the film archives to make the extraordinary documentary, My Fathers, My Mother and Me www.thedailybeast.com #

  • Guy gets ripped on Cocaine, LSD And Ketamine while at work wrapping Christmas presents dressed up as an elf digg.com #

  • Brunch is an ultra-fast HTML5 build tool brunch.io #

  • Mark Cuban: When people connect to their phones for anything other than an occasional text or email it means we have failed at entertaining our customers www.wired.com #

2013/12/26 #

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2013/12/25 #

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  • Showgirls - Two Filmmakers Go Gonzo At The Club “Where Strippers Go To Die" www.vice.com #

  • Music publishers claim to own "Silent Night" & ripoff indie Youtube singer boingboing.net #

  • The ‘Nymphomaniac’ Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know About Lars von Trier’s Epic Study of Sexual Obsession www.indiewire.com #

2013/12/24 #

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  • Shrine of Santa Muerte (Holy Death) - Hundreds of people flock daily to Mexico City’s colonial center to ask for health, wealth, prosperity and happiness www.vocativ.com #

  • UK's new national firewall: O2's "parental control" list blocks Slashdot, EFF, and Boing Boing boingboing.net #

2013/12/23 #

Today’s links:

  • Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot released from Russian prison in Sochi Olympics amnesty www.buzzfeed.com #

  • Excerpted from God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis www.slate.com #

  • Canadian spies lied to judge to obtain surveillance warrants, deliberately misinterpreted law and asked other countries' intelligence services to spy for them www.cbc.ca #

  • Not All Memories Are Lost: The Man Whose Mind Exploded Reviewed thequietus.com #

2013/12/20 #

Today’s links:

  • Walk across New Hampshire with Larry Lessig and friends to reform campaign finance and fight corruption boingboing.net #

  • One Small Step for Privacy, One Giant Leap Against Surveillance - 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously approve "The right to privacy in the digital age" UN privacy resolution www.eff.org #

  • Solar powered fire-starter - no moving parts, no flint, no fuels, no gases, and no batteries boingboing.net #

2013/12/18 #

Today’s links:

  • The Camels Were 'Impossible': Peter O'Toole Remembers 'Arabia' www.npr.org #

  • This Wind Map Of The Earth Is Really Beautiful - a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours earth.nullschool.net #

  • Lost Footage Of A 21-Year-Old Bob Dylan digg.com #

2013/12/16 #

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  • Burner wedding features fire-jetting unicorn statue that sneeze glitter and pisses lemonade boingboing.net #

  • S.F. tech companies' civic image at stake as backlash grows www.sfgate.com #

  • Crashing Other People's Cell Phone Conversations Makes For Hilarity At The Airport digg.com #

  • University College London (UCL) astronomers have detected noble gas molecules in space for the first time in the Crab Nebula www.astronomy.com #

2013/12/15 #

Today’s links:

  • Hipster Holy Land - The Revolution Church invites both believers and non-believers to show up at a bar in Brooklyn, grab a beer and give God a chance digg.com #

  • People Blown Over In The Streets As Storm Ivar Hits Norway digg.com #

2013/12/13 #

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  • Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA - One language is written on top of the other www.washington.edu #

  • NASA - Hi Juno: Juno Spacecraft Listens for a Greeting from Earth www.youtube.com #

2013/12/12 #

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  • Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data www.aclu.org #

  • South Africa admits mistake over 'schizophrenic' Mandela signer www.reuters.com #

  • Atlanta's Party Animals Are Crazy About A New Spa That Claims To Cure Hangovers With An IV Drip www.businessinsider.com #

  • Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, And Conan Share A Lyft Car digg.com #

  • No Internet Week: Five internet addicts step away from their screens for a week in this short documentary digg.com #

2013/12/11 #

Today’s links:

  • Canada's spooks were NSA bagmen, established spy-posts in 20+ countries and "transnational targets" boingboing.net #

  • FreeBSD won't use Intel & Via's hardware random number generators, believes NSA has compromised them boingboing.net #

2013/12/10 #

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  • websocketd - Turn any application that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a web sockets server github.com #

  • Mountain Goats Miraculously Escape Avalanche digg.com #

  • C.I.A, F.B.I, Pentagon and GCHQ spies play World of Warcraft all day long to "spy" on online communities business.financialpost.com #

2013/12/09 #

Today’s links:

  • FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light gizmodo.com #

  • Shameful Profiling of the Mentally Ill - Canadians are being turned away at the US border because of depression - Governments might be exchanging medical records www.nytimes.com #

  • Taylor University has a tradition called the Silent Night where the entire crowd remains dead silent until the tenth point is scored digg.com #

2013/12/08 #

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  • Dharamsala, population 20,000 and one of the most hacked places in the world - home to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader www.foreignpolicy.com #

  • Banksy piece auctioned for $457,000 qz.com #

  • 'In Dreams' - Experimental documentary that focuses on reoccurring dreams and the effect they have on the people dreaming them digg.com #

  • Porn Industry Faces Another Shutdown After Performer Tests Positive For HIV www.buzzfeed.com #

  • Turn any bike into a hybrid with the Copenhagen Wheel - a motorized disk unit that attaches to the rear wheel www.superpedestrian.com #

  • Glitchy A/V art installation about "space-time compression" boingboing.net #

2013/12/07 #

Today’s links:

  • Adam Curtis: What the Fluck! - The point at which journalism fails and modern power begins www.bbc.co.uk #

  • US Spy Satellite Logo Not At All Subtle: Octopus Enveloping The Earth www.techdirt.com #

  • Stoned Kids: Eight-year-old leukemia patient who takes massive amounts of weed to treat her illness, her family believes in palliative aspect and also that pot can literally shrink tumors www.vice.com #

2013/12/04 #

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  • Colorado town is poised to vote in the next week and a half on an ordinance that will allow drone hunting www.nationaljournal.com #

  • Stars pose naked with fish - The global marine ecosystem will collapse within a generation if unsustainable fishing practices are allowed to continue www.dailymail.co.uk #

  • Sugru - Magnets are freaking awesome - Attach anything to anything with sugru + magnets! sugru.com #

2013/12/03 #

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