Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Podcast listeners really are the holy grail advertisers hoped they'd be wired.com #

Terry Gilliam reveals how he created his Monty Python animations boingboing.net #

How the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect sites using Google Analytics adactio.com #

In a world where 48 football fields of forest is lost every minute - these drones can plant 100,000 trees a day weforum.org #

How The Guardian improbably put itself on the path to profits digiday.com #

Monday, January 29, 2018

to-case - simple case detection and conversion for strings github.com #

Lonely Road - On the late night radio show Coast to Coast AM, a community of loners support each other in the alternative convictions that isolate them reallifemag.com #

Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases theguardian.com #

New York investigates company accused of selling fake Twitter followers bbc.com #

Google's pestering ads get 'mute' button bbc.com #

We'll Just Have This St. Vincent Tiny Desk Concert On Repeat All Day, Thanks digg.com #

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Larry Nassar - Disgraced US Olympics doctor jailed for 175 years bbc.com #

A BLACK AMERICAN ARTIST IS PRINTING T-SHIRTS WITH THE RACIST COMMENTS HE HAS HEARD IN BERLIN quartzy.qz.com #

The Fall belched like a dirty chimney through the drab skies of British culture vulture.com #

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Your Hospitality Art - easily create a local map for your Airbnb guests eliotand.me #

How to start an email - an email openings analysis of 300,000+ messages work.qz.com #

Log cabin vlogging - cold weather, renovations and making wood-fired pizza digg.com #

Tinder's lack of encryption lets strangers spy on your swipe wired.com #

What Elon Musk’s insane $55 billion pay deal says about the tech industry vanityfair.com #

Why George Orwell called Salvador Dali a "disgusting human being" boingboing.net #

If humans gave up on geoengineering after 50 years, it could be far worse than if we had done nothing at all boingboing.net #

The Best Band Names From A Hilarious AI-Generated Coachella Lineup digg.com #

You Can Clean Old Records With Wood Glue And Holy Crap, It Is So Satisfying digg.com #

Brought up on Porn - The impact of online sex bbc.com #

How Hurricane Maria forced Puerto Ricans to change their hair theguardian.com #

Mary Lee Berners-Lee obituary -
Computer scientist who became one of the world’s first freelance programmers in the 1950s theguardian.com #

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' bbc.com #

'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Overlay - 10:25) bbc.com #

'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Popup 10:28) bbc.com #

'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Redirect - 10:29) bbc.com #

'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Website - 10:30) bbc.com #

Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserable boingboing.net #

Little Ripper is a remote controlled multicopter that carries a floatation device boingboing.net #

The util.inspect() method returns a string representation of object that is primarily useful for debugging -
Additional options may be passed that alter certain aspects of the formatted string nodejs.org #

The JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string, optionally replacing values if a replacer function is specified, or optionally including only the specified properties if a replacer array is specified developer.mozilla.org #

Intel tells users to stop deploying buggy Spectre patch, citing technical issues theverge.com #

Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan qz.com #

Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek (Nerdist Presents) youtube.com #

We Can Only Assume This Man Riding His Wheelchair On Top Of A Hoverboard Is A Wizard digg.com #

Monday, January 22, 2018

Inside Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store techcrunch.com #

Linus Torvalds Calls Intel “Please don’t be broken on boot” Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' m.slashdot.org #

289 groups and individuals signed 23 SCOTUS amicus briefs supporting Microsoft's case to prevent US government seizure of emails stored on servers in Ireland blogs.microsoft.com #

Fighting sexual harassment in Bollywood bbc.com #

ISO 8601 - the International Standard for the representation of dates and times w3.org #

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Universal Analytics - Why is 'p' parameter used for events, not 'dp'? github.com #

Donald Trump signs $110 billion arms deal with nation he accused of masterminding 9/11 independent.co.uk #

Turkey targets Kurdish forces in Afrin - The short, medium and long story bbc.com #

Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts bbc.com #

Thursday, January 18, 2018

How To Save Linux Command Output To An Image Or A File ostechnix.com #

World's confidence in US leadership under Trump at new low, poll finds theguardian.com #

The mystery of Jesus, the naked hippie dancer medium.com #

This Mind-Blowing Visualization Shows How Tiny Our Sun Is Compared To The Universe's Biggest Stars digg.com #

Buying headphones in 2018 is going to be a fragmented mess theverge.com #

Incident report - npm, Inc. operations incident of January 6, 2018 blog.npmjs.org #

Polka is an extremely minimal, highly performant Express.js alternative github.com #

Set the HostName, Computer Name, and Bonjour Name Separately in OS X osxdaily.com #

The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards gop.com #

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Flurry of Lawsuits Fight Repeal of Net Neutrality nytimes.com #

New Android malware with never-before-seen spying capabilities arstechnica.com #

Noise over grunting cranks up once again after crowd mocks Aryna Sabalenka theguardian.com #

Here's The Terribly Designed Computer Menu That Led To Hawaii's False Missile Alarm digg.com #

This Octopus's Active Camouflage Is Amazing digg.com #

Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From Running Out of Water time.com #

Monday, January 15, 2018

AT&T’s call to drop Huawei - FCC long been concerned about Chinese espionage in general, and Huawei’s role in that espionage in particular theguardian.com #

How to get the primary IP address of the local machine on Linux and OS X? stackoverflow.com #

Alibaba neural network defeats human in global reading test zdnet.com #

The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India atlasobscura.com #

The Carry-On Traveller - The Ultimate Guide to Packing Light amazon.co.uk #

Friday, January 12, 2018

This Is, Without A Doubt, The Best Paper Airplane We've Ever Seen digg.com #

Adversarial examples - attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hear boingboing.net #

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of unbootable PCs theverge.com #

With repetition, most of us will become inured to all the dirty tricks of Facebook attention-manipulation boingboing.net #

Complying with the new EU data protection directive requires a top-to-bottom redo of the adtech industry boingboing.net #

This Intricate Marble Run Synced To Tchaikovsky Is Quite Good digg.com #

A glimpse of a different Trump in action bbc.com #

Monday, January 8, 2018

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site - Here’s how hackernoon.com #

Our Best Evidence Yet That Humans Are Fixing the Ozone Hole earther.com #

Structuring a NodeJS module  -  variables and methods medium.com #

Two Major Apple Shareholders Push for Study of iPhone Addiction in Children bloomberg.com #

Triple meltdown - How so many researchers found a 20-year-old chip flaw at the same time wired.com #

The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers nymag.com #

SpaceX successfully delivers government secret satellite into space then lands rocket back on earth, more really critical space stuff in 2018 cnbc.com #

Sunday, January 7, 2018

What would really happen if russia attacked undersea internet cables wired.com #

A Record-Setting Number Of Women Will Play Coachella This Year, But Is That Enough? refinery29.com #

This Kid Turns Popping Wheelies Into An Art Form digg.com #

Some more new punk and nice video from Bat Boy with “Giantess” punknews.org #

Saturday, January 6, 2018

Await and Async Explained with Diagrams and Examples nikgrozev.com #

We’ve been told that facts have lost their power, that debunking lies only makes them stronger, and that the internet divides us - Don’t believe any of it slate.com #

I turned off javascript for a whole week and it was glorious wired.com #

The Paradox of Tolerance - should intolerance be tolerated? boingboing.net #

Friday, January 5, 2018

Chrome is turning into the new Internet Explorer 6 theverge.com #

We asked seven transhumanists what they hope to look like when they transcend their flesh-covered bodies topic.com #

Mongoose remove hook not triggered when removing documents github.com #

A Saigon-based blogger and rail enthusiast has released an updated map of the city's long-dreamed of metro system saigoneer.com #

A New Silk Road - China is investing billions in building pathways to Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East newyorker.com #

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Real trump news - Trump Angrily Throws Steve Bannon’s Signed Copy of “Mein Kampf” in Trash newyorker.com #

Critical flaws revealed to affect most Intel chips since 1995 zdnet.com #

Comedian Karl Pilkington Beat 'Black Mirror' To The Punch On Two Ideas digg.com #

According to the researchers, the Meltdown flaw affects virtually every microprocessor made by Intel, which makes chips used in more than 90 percent of the computer servers that underpin the internet and private business operations mobile.nytimes.com #

I’ve re-recorded Alan Turing’s “Can Computers Think?” radio broadcasts aperiodical.com #

Notes from the Intelpocalypse lwn.net #

We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare theregister.co.uk #

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

On the internet, 2018 is the year the pendulum swings back words.werd.io #

Iran Moves to Block Social Media Apps, Mobile Networks as Protests Spread gizmodo.com #

Even More Of 2017's Best News Bloopers digg.com #

How The First Subway System Was Developed digg.com #

clang runs in the browser and compiles C++ to WebAssembly, which the browser then runs tbfleming.github.io #

Hollywood A-Listers Launch Time’s Up Initiative to Fight Sexual Harassment Across the U.S. Workforce variety.com #

Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the trafficking of contraband weapons and ammunition en.wikipedia.org #

Treacle tart - A smallish treacle tart when you can't trust yourself with the leftovers bbc.co.uk #

Monday, January 1, 2018

Call for tech giants to face taxes over extremist content bbc.com #

Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the EU, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnant boingboing.net #

North Korea's Kim Jong-un issues threats and olive branch bbc.com #

The catastrophic consequences of the non-Neutral Net will be very hard to spot, until it's too late boingboing.net #

Newspaper headlines - Britons 'upbeat' as hospitals face flu crisis bbc.com #

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