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Today’s links:

• How East and West think in profoundly different ways www.bbc.com #

• Fake news - Why the West is blind to Russia's propaganda today www.smh.com.au #

• All of IT development summed up in one image boingboing.net #

• Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked www.politico.com #

• A Confused Westerner's Guide To Setting Up A Japanese Apartment digg.com #

Today’s links:

• Donald Trump and the Semantics of Falsehood www.theatlantic.com #

• What If Everybody Lived In Just One Building? www.youtube.com #

• China's capital controls are working, and that's bursting the global real-estate bubble boingboing.net #

• Happy mutants day of ice cream: a proclamation boingboing.net #

• Watching This Guy Rap For 77 Seconds Straight Without Taking A Breath Is Highly Impressive digg.com #

Today’s links:

• A Goldfish Can Steer This Little Car By Swimming To Different Corners Of It digg.com #

• Somehow Everyone Involved In This Horrible Truck-Bus Crash Is Okay digg.com #

• The Next Disney Will Come from China and Its Name Is Tencent backchannel.com #

Today’s links:

• Trump seeks Mexican import tax to pay for border wallntions www.bbc.com #

• One More Time With Feeling - 'Anonymized' User Data Not Really Anonymous www.techdirt.com #

• HYLETE - icon 6-in1 backpack - black/stealth black www.hylete.com #

• Cute Kids Try Japanese Food For The First Time digg.com #

• Audio From 'Spinal Tap' Turns Donald Trump Up To 11 digg.com #

• How a Show About Sex, Drugs, and Teens Changed British Culture www.vice.com #

• The Longest Buzzer Beater In NBA History digg.com #

• Refactoring 30000 lines of JS with types www.reaktor.com #

• Watch this Bad Lip Reading of Trump's inauguration day boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Lillian Alling, the Woman So Homesick She Walked From New York to Alaska mentalfloss.com #

• GitHub’s post-CSP journey githubengineering.com #

• 2016 JavaScript Rising Stars risingstars2016.js.org #

• Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS electron.atom.io #

Today’s links:

• Trump Gags Various Agencies, And Other Trump News From Today digg.com #

• Oliver Sacks On His Journey To An Island Of Colorblind People digg.com #

Today’s links:

• Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich www.newyorker.com #

• The end of passports? How Australia plans to make travel documents obsolete by 2020 www.telegraph.co.uk #

• Doctor Who Quote About 'Alternative Facts' Sounds Awfully Relatable 40 Years Later io9.gizmodo.com #

• This Intricate Raptor Hand Puppet Is Seriously Incredible digg.com #

• helmetjs/frameguard - Is there functionality to ignore a route? github.com #

• cheerio - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core github.com #

• HomeMarks - Bookmarklet Fixed For Sites With Strict CSP Policies www.homemarks.com #

• Bookmarklets affected by CSP bugzilla.mozilla.org #

• Bookmarklets are Dead… medium.com #

• The Resurrection of Bookmarklets www.donnelly-house.net #

• Content Security Policy for extensions and bookmarklets stackoverflow.com #

• Detect CSP violations with javascript stackoverflow.com #

• After 8 years, here are the promises Obama kept - and the ones he didn’t www.washingtonpost.com #

• This Match-Winning Volleyball Point Is Something Else digg.com #

• What Happens When You Mix Java with a 1960 IBM Mainframe thenewstack.io #

• Adult Swim's Latest Weird Short Is Highly Unsettling digg.com #

Today’s links:

• Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain www.politico.com #

• Why Do British Pubs Serve Thai Food? luckypeach.com #

• PUNK 45: Les Punks : The French Connection - The First Wave Of French Punk soundsoftheuniverse.com #

Today’s links:

• How statistics lost their power - and why we should fear what comes next www.theguardian.com #

• Lost in London review - Woody Harrelson's live movie is a miraculous oddity www.theguardian.com #

• Bre & Co bre.co #

• Maker Bre Pettis talks about the way forward for tech in this new century techcrunch.com #

• Enter the dangerous world of finger skateboarding boingboing.net #

Today’s links:

• Here Are The Locks A Master Locksmith Couldn't Figure Out How To Open digg.com #

• The Government Secrets Trump Is About to Discover www.politico.com #

• Kristen Stewart (yes, that Kristen Stewart) just released a research paper on artificial intelligence qz.com #

• The Machines Are Coming For Poker fivethirtyeight.com #

• server-error-pages - Easy to use, professional error page github.com #

Today’s links:

• Here's Where Many British Spies End Up When They Quit www.bloomberg.com #

• Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales www.staradvertiser.com #

• Wendy's - A Definitive Ranking of Fast-Food French Fries firstwefeast.com #

• Trump Gets Sworn In Tomorrow, Meet His Full Cabinet digg.com #

Today’s links:

• The Unexpected Design Challenge Behind Slack's New Threaded Conversations www.fastcompany.com #

• Mozilla unveils new logo, font, and design venturebeat.com #

• France creates a special visa for entrepreneurs, engineers and investors techcrunch.com #

• Pixar Pretty Much Confirms That All Of Its Films Exist In The Same Universe digg.com #

• Cambodia travel advice www.gov.uk #

Today’s links:

• Filming A See-Through Engine In Super Slow Motion Is The Best Way To See How Internal Combustion Works digg.com #

Today’s links:

• The Russian Spy Who Convinced America to Take ESP Seriously www.atlasobscura.com #

• Queen Elizabeth I’s Vast Spy Network Was The First Surveillance State www.atlasobscura.com #

• Trump vows ‘insurance for everybody’ in Obamacare replacement plan www.washingtonpost.com #

Today’s links:

• I Don’t Read The News Anymore, And It’s Great theawl.com #

• Fonts of the World - The most popular web fonts in use, updated weekly bonfx.com #

• Tracking Trump's Web of Conflicts www.bloomberg.com #

• These Are The Criminals and Corporations That Have Gotten Really, Really Rich highline.huffingtonpost.com #

Today’s links:

• Every Trump tweet activates thousands of computer algorithms www.marketwatch.com #

• India Will Now Jail Junked Rupee Holders for 4 Years bitcoinist.com #

• Putin’s DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections www.defenseone.com #

• The Typekit Blog - Introducing Source Serif 2.0 blog.typekit.com #

Today’s links:

• How Kompromat Works www.theatlantic.com #

• Microsoft launches StaffHub, a new Office 365 app aimed at shift workers techcrunch.com #

• Opera launches Neon, a new experimental desktop browser techcrunch.com #

• Say hello to Opera Neon, our new concept browser www.opera.com #

• Chrome Dev Tools: Markup and Style code.tutsplus.com #

• Why Most Planets Will Either Be Lush or Dead nautil.us #

Today’s links:

• nock - HTTP mocking and expectations library github.com #

• Everyone Is Watching This Video Of A Road Being Paved Because It Is Perfect digg.com #

• Monkeys Grieving The 'Death' Of An Animatronic Monkey Doll Is Eerily Human digg.com #

• The Female-To-Male Ratio Of America, By State And County digg.com #

• This Remake Of The 'Two Brothers' Trailer From 'Rick And Morty' With Footage From Real Movies Is Genius digg.com #

• Why Do Canadians Say 'Eh'? www.atlasobscura.com #

• Big Brother collecting big data - and in China, it's all for sale www.cbc.ca #

• How My First Sales Job Traveling The World Changed My Career www.fastcompany.com #

• The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer theintercept.com #

• Ideal API versioning surfingthe.cloud #

• owlturd - I can smash anything owlturd.com #

Today’s links:

• The Subtle Magic Behind Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works www.helloerik.com #

• Living In The Beautiful Bubble Of The Not-Quite Internet www.buzzfeed.com #

Today’s links:

• Indie Microblogging - owning your short-form writing by Manton Reece www.kickstarter.com #

• Micro.blog is a new social network for independent microblogs micro.blog #

• I Dropped Acid and Saw Into the Future- My Surreal First Time At CES www.thedailybeast.com #

• Rebak do drzewa Hit Internetu!!! Z cyklu Polak potrafi ! www.youtube.com #

Today’s links:

• The Unreal, Eerie Emptiness of China’s ‘Ghost Cities’ www.wired.com #

• Unborn Cities - Kai Caemmerer kaimichael.com #

• Monitor Cron Jobs, Services, and More cronitor.io #

• Lessons learned with Stripe subscriptions blog.cronitor.io #

• HN: Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions news.ycombinator.com #

• For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided Into Three Separate Cities www.atlasobscura.com #

• The Best Ending Credit Sequences Of All Time digg.com #

• Photos: Some of the earliest color images of life around the world timeline.com #

Today’s links:

• Watch A Twitch Stream Of Two Google Home Chatbots Fighting With Each Other digg.com #

• Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 blog.getbootstrap.com #

• Creative Tim - Awesome Bootstrap freebies and templates to build better websites presentation.creative-tim.com #

Today’s links:

• Was 2016 especially dangerous for celebrities? An empirical analysis medium.com #

• A Short Film On Loving Our Imperfect Partners digg.com #

Today’s links:

• backbone.js - Understanding the el in backbone stackoverflow.com #

• John Papa - SPA and the Single Page Myth johnpapa.net #

• js-model - models in your JavaScript benpickles.github.io #

• Sammy.js - A Small Web Framework with Class - RESTFul Evented JavaScript sammyjs.org #

• Getting Started with JSData www.js-data.io #

• Using Handlebars with Backbone stackoverflow.com #

• Handlebars.js - Minimal Templating on Steroids handlebarsjs.com #

• Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap coenraets.org #

Today’s links:

• jquery - Open a Bootstrap Modal automatically from an external link stackoverflow.com #

• Understanding Bootstrap Modals www.sitepoint.com #

• Page - small client-side routing library for use with building single page applications (SPAs) smalljs.org #

• hi_score - Starter project for SPA - Feature best-in-class github.com #

• Do you really want an SPA framework? mmikowski.github.io #

• Install and Use GNU Command Line Tools on macOS/OS X www.topbug.net #

• Install GNU programs on OS X gist.github.com #

• Cambodia Kiteboarding www.cambodiakiteboarding.com #

• Villa Vedici - Accommodation in Kampot www.villavedici.com #

• Decoupling Backbone Apps From WebSockets lostechies.com #

• Using Socket.IO with Backbone.js www.eddiedillon.info #

• Build a Web App with Backbone.js and Socket.IO www.sitepoint.com #

• Backbone.js and socket.io developer.teradata.com #

• This Map Reveals the Ultimate Cross-U.S. Train Trip for Under $250 www.inverse.com #

• Why America's Restaurant Industry Is in a Bubble About to Burst www.thrillist.com #