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2014/02/27 #

Today’s links:

  • GCHQ spied on millions of Yahoo video chats, harvested sexual images of chatters, compared itself to "Tom Cruise in Minority Report" boingboing.net #

  • LIFE AFTER PI - Short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios that explores the forces impacting the global VFX community and the Film Industry as a whole www.youtube.com #

  • A Crazy Oculus Rift Hack Lets Men and Women Swap Bodies www.wired.com #

  • Actor Seth Rogen gives his opening statement before a Senate hearing on Alzheimer's Research (C-SPAN) www.youtube.com #

2014/02/26 #

Today’s links:

  • In Napples the Camorra crime family is causing high cancer rates digg.com #

  • MPAA’s latest anti-piracy move accidentally, completely screws Hollywood studios and might help visual effects workers fight foreign subsidies pando.com #

  • Nate Silver: The themes, motifs, and plots from 85 years of best-picture-nominated movies do tell a story www.vanityfair.com #

2014/02/24 #

Today’s links:

  • The Best-Sounding Brass Instrument Tech Makes No Sound At All: Yamaha’s Latest Silent Brass createdigitalmusic.com #

  • How Youtube's automated copyright system lets big music screw indie creators boingboing.net #

  • Tokyo 2013 - creative home made video about a trip to Tokyo vimeo.com #

  • Short Documentary about music video director David Wilson vimeo.com #

  • Elephante - Short film by Pablo Larcuen vimeo.com #

  • The Runners - A film by Matan Rochlitz & Ivo Gormley Dead vimeo.com #

2014/02/23 #

Today’s links:

  • Russian style modern gastro cuisine - A tribute to the home cooks of the Red Empire, who turned mass production, propaganda, and want into a cuisine www.foreignpolicy.com #

  • Before and After: Kiev on Instagram - 32 real photographs of how normal, everyday life changed in a matter of days www.esquire.com #

  • Pussy Riot use footage of cossack horsewhipping in new music video boingboing.net #

  • Russian Federation Anti-Gay Laws: An Analysis & Deconstruction www.dropbox.com #

  • Are we birthing our own psychic destruction? gigaom.com #

2014/02/22 #

Today’s links:

  • Venezuela: 'After being promised paradise we are living in a nightmare.' boingboing.net #

  • 25 Synonyms for 'Pussy Riot,' for news presenters who'd really rather not to say 'pussy' on-air boingboing.net #

  • Ukrainian president Yanukovuych flees Kiev as opposition seize the palace boingboing.net #

2014/02/20 #

Today’s links:

  • Fax Your GP: quick opt-out from insane NHS plan to sell your medical recordseillance boxes boingboing.net #

  • The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist? www.theverge.com #

  • This Ingenious Touchscreen UI Should Be in Every Car www.wired.com #

2014/02/19 #

Today’s links:

  • One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society nymag.com #

  • Kiev Is Burning: Ukrainian Riot Police Are Storming Protest Camps digg.com #

  • Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago www.openculture.com #

  • How To Use Your Waffle Iron Like A F*cking Moron digg.com #

  • Could these creepy chest packs be North Korea's way of threatening radiological war? www.foreignpolicy.com #

  • Pussy Riot Detained for Hours in Sochi, Leave Station Singing www.nbcnews.com #

  • Listen to a Recording of a Song Written on a Man’s Butt in a 15-Century Hieronymus Bosch Painting www.openculture.com #

  • Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S. www.salon.com #

  • Comic book explains why the Transpacific Partnership serves no one but the ultra-rich boingboing.net #

  • Game theory: how 70,000 pokemon players sabotage themselves minimaxir.com #

2014/02/16 #

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2014/02/14 #

Today’s links:

  • Snowboarding Across New York City digg.com #

  • The History of Surveillance and the Black Community - FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King into suicide www.eff.org #

  • These Regular Women Watch As They're Photoshopped Into Cover Models digg.com #

  • Mathematical beauty activates same brain region as great art or music www.ucl.ac.uk #

2014/02/13 #

Today’s links:

  • The ugly truth - We all know our culture puts a premium on good looks – does that mean that the ugly are oppressed? aeon.co #

2014/02/11 #

Today’s links:

  • Stuart Hall obituary - Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review www.theguardian.com #

2014/02/09 #

Today’s links:

  • Specials frontman Terry Hall takes over the Sunday afternoon slot for the whole of February armed with a box of records carefully selected from his personal collection www.bbc.co.uk #

  • Woody Allen v. Dylan Farrow - The Court of Public Opinion is now in session www.slate.com #

  • AHRobot is an air hockey robot player build using standard RepRap 3D printer parts digg.com #

2014/02/08 #

Today’s links:

  • Snowboarding’s slopestyle event has been dominated recently by a 20-year-old from the flat plains of Saskatchewan, Canada, Mark McMorris #slicksite www.nytimes.com #

  • ‘Downhill Racer’ and the Baffling Absentee Legacy of Winter Olympics Movies grantland.com #

  • GoPro Files For IPO As The Action Camera Maker Prepares To Go Public techcrunch.com #

  • Woody Allen Speaks Out - Responds to Dylan Farrow accusations www.nytimes.com #

2014/02/05 #

Today’s links:

  • Facebook, censorship, algorithms and a system that embraces the guilty-before-being-proven-innocent ethos pando.com #

2014/02/03 #

Today’s links:

  • The House I Live In (2012) - penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy www.imdb.com #

  • Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government www.ccc.de #

  • Canada's weirdly recursive geography - the world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island boingboing.net #

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City appartment of an apparent drug overdose late Sunday morning online.wsj.com #

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Greatest Actor of His Generation - Hollywood's patron saint of schlubs, losers, and outcasts www.theatlantic.com #

2014/02/01 #

Today’s links:

  • Voice Chat API  is a free, open-source, out-of-the-box audio conferencing app exposed via an API voicechatapi.com #

  • Appear.in - Video conversations with up to 8 people for free - No login – no installs appear.in #

  • Dear America, I Saw You Naked - And yes, we were laughing - Confessions of an ex-TSA agent www.politico.com #

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