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2014/01/31 #

Today’s links:

  • The Magic of Strace - strace is a command line tool which lets you trace the system calls and signals received by a given process and its children chadfowler.com #

  • David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance #wearesoscrewed boingboing.net #

2014/01/28 #

Today’s links:

  • 'Titushky' intimidate people in Ukraine, payed by the government to look like protestors but always hide their faces www.slideshare.net #

  • Ted Nelson: Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC m.youtube.com #

  • David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve www.ted.com #

  • hackathon-starter - A boilerplate for Node.js web applications github.com #

2014/01/27 #

Today’s links:

  • Twitter is starting to feel calcified, slowed down by the weight of its own users, cumbersome, less exciting bits.blogs.nytimes.com #

  • What Is a Million “Likes” Worth? Numbers that really matter for artists on the internet medium.com #

2014/01/17 #

Today’s links:

  • Learning JavaScript Design Patterns - A book by Addy Osmani addyosmani.com #

  • Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee: Jay Leno digg.com #

  • Robert Redford on Oscar snub: “Hollywood is what it is. It’s a business” www.salon.com #

  • Meet The Artists '14: Jeremiah Zagar - Sundance Film Festival www.youtube.com #

  • NATIVES - Written and Directed by Jeremy Hersh vimeo.com #

  • Codfish & Cyanide - un film di David Gesslbauer vimeo.com #

  • The Art of Fighting // Short Documentary vimeo.com #

  • Miami - The city they say where neon goes to die - Three friends and a camera try to capture the spirit of Art Basel away from the pomp and guestlists vimeo.com #

2014/01/16 #

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2014/01/15 #

Today’s links:

  • The Pot Primary - Why 2016 could spell the end of legal marijuana www.politico.com #

  • An Honest Beer Commercial - The real reason everyone drinks domestic American beers digg.com #

  • Casinos’ worrying knack for consumer manipulation - The spread of machine gambling offers a portent of other economic developments timharford.com #

2014/01/13 #

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2014/01/12 #

Today’s links:

  • Total corruption: Organised crime infiltrated and compromised UK courts, police, HMRC, Crown Prosecution Service, prisons, and juries boingboing.net #

  • Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, hula hoops and GoPro cams digg.com #

  • Riding Through New York On A 'Circle Board' digg.com #

  • Crowdsourced, realtime date advice: networked hivemind Cyrano boingboing.net #

2014/01/10 #

Today’s links:

  • Thin Woman With Tatoos Sets The Record For Fastest Time Eating An Entire 72 Oz. Steak digg.com #

  • Frameworkless JavaScript - Why Angular, Ember, or Backbone don't work for us moot.it #

2014/01/07 #

Today’s links:

  • Buffalo Sabres p.r. director Paul Wieland pulled some fantastic pranks in the 70s and 80s, including naming the Sabres "America's Team" and drafting an imaginary player www.sportsonearth.com #

  • You've Been Eating Chicken Wings All Wrong digg.com #

  • George Monbiot: At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything www.theguardian.com #

  • Bre Pettis's rapid prototyping talk, a tour-de-force presentation from 25C3 media.ccc.de #

  • Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 www.well.com #

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