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2014/04/29 #

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  • Apple’s MacBook Air lineup updated with faster Haswell processors, now starts at $899 9to5mac.com #

  • Silicon Valley’s Coddled Caste System Has Been Exposed nymag.com #

  • Living with lag - an oculus rift experiment #netneutrality digg.com #

  • Forget 140 characters: Here’s How to Go to Jail for 10 Months for One ‘k’. medium.com #

2014/04/28 #

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2014/04/26 #

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2014/04/25 #

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  • This Man Is A Machine At Cutting Watermelons digg.com #

  • Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize www.wired.com #

  • A suit brought by four Muslim-American men with no criminal records asserts that the FBI put them on the no-fly list in order to pressure them to inform on their communities boingboing.net #

2014/04/23 #

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2014/04/22 #

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  • CEO Of “Russian Facebook” Says He Was Fired And That The Social Network Is Now In The Hands Of Putin Allies www.buzzfeed.com #

  • East London from the air - This mesmeric video takes you on a journey along and above the streets of east London #gooddrones www.youtube.com #

  • A Beginner’s Guide To South London’s Cultural Gems londonist.com #

  • Do You Walk Enough?ks.markjgsmith.com tags: --- Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City #baddrones www.theatlantic.com #

  • Pinnytown - The New Balance Numeric team takes a short trip to Boston and New York vimeo.com #

  • Foureyes - A 10-year-old boy is thrust into the tumultuous world of puberty when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses vimeo.com #

2014/04/19 #

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  • HMRC plans to share tax data with private firms www.bbc.com #

  • Wingsuit Pilots Fly At 125MPH Under Bridge On Side Of Mountain digg.com #

2014/04/16 #

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  • CASTLES IN THE AIR - The gorgeous existential funk of “Adventure Time.” www.newyorker.com #

  • The 57 Best Conspiracy Theories I Heard At New Jersey’s 55th Annual UFO Conference www.buzzfeed.com #

  • The Director Of 'The Matrix' Came Out As Transgender For One Reason And One Reason Only www.upworthy.com #

  • Resentment at techies might not be fair, but it's the future boingboing.net #

  • San Fransisco’s Housing Crisis Explainedmainname: links.markjgsmith.com tags: --- Startup Genome Ranks The World’s Top Startup Ecosystems (2012) techcrunch.com #

2014/04/13 #

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2014/04/12 #

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  • LA Sheriffs launch crowdsourced crowd control: LEEDIR, a surveillance app that uses your photos and videos boingboing.net #

  • Flashing your headlights to tip off other drivers to cops now officially free speech in Oregon boingboing.net #

  • Spanish parliament rejects Catalan independence vote www.bbc.com #

  • Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from dealing with grief and loss vimeo.com #

  • The Long Game Part 2: the missing chaptere "Stunts" (2014) vimeo.com #

  • "Isolated" - Sau Poler m Carlos Lascanote Look at American Folk Artist Leonard Knight vimeo.com #

  • Morning Ritual - A monster wakes to a familiar sound and begins his morning ritual vimeo.com #

  • Tokyo Reverse - Extractsy Daniel Savage vimeo.com #

  • The Common Room Animation Project is a collaboration between 13 animators, based on Talia Randall's spoken-word poem 'Common Room' vimeo.com #

2014/04/11 #

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2014/04/10 #

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  • School Stabbing Suspect Was 'Nice Young Boy,' Attorney Says www.npr.org #

  • Victoria Siemer Transforms The Human Experience Into Computerized Error Messages beautifuldecay.com #

  • I just finished reading the entire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. Wow. www.reddit.com #

  • Guy went to see a football match for the first time, instantly famous. www.reddit.com #

  • Bacterial 'FM radio' developed at UC San Diego phys.org #

  • Princess of Liechtenstein once vomed all over my mom

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  • Heartbleed - A story about Kings, Queens, Princesses, server-babies, DNA, dogs, monopolies, oligopolies, protection rackets and bleeding lorddoig.svbtle.com #

  • In other news, that light on Mars from earlier was most probably just a reflection off a rock and not an alien

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  • Tokyo YouTube Hanami Meetup 2014♥東京ユーチューバー花見オフ会2014年 www.youtube.com #

  • This Grandma Riding A Roller Coaster For The First Time Is Pure Joy digg.com #

2014/04/09 #

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2014/04/08 #

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2014/04/05 #

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2014/04/04 #

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  • U.S. government agency covertly created ZunZuneo, a "Cuban Twitter" designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba bigstory.ap.org #

  • express-autoroute - Automatically load routes from a structured routes/ folder www.npmjs.org #

  • express-route-dispatcher - Route dispatcher for Express www.npmjs.org #

  • app-routes - Convention based routes with before action/filter for express.js www.npmjs.org #

  • Cabinet minister apologises for handling of expenses inquiry www.bbc.com #

2014/04/03 #

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2014/04/02 #

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  • Bipolar disorder can rage through life like a hurricane. So why does the US healthcare system leave us to cope alone? aeon.co #

  • 'Slomo,' Is An Unusual Documentary About A Very Unusual Man digg.com #

  • Pupil, 12, dies after wall collapses at Liberton High School www.bbc.com #

  • Taiwan: Watch the "Sunflower Movement" student occupation of congress boingboing.net #

2014/04/01 #

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