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2013/10/26 #

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  • EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appealwww.eff.org #

  • Nigeria Has The Most Absurdly Crooked Soccer League On The Planetdeadspin.com #

  • The inside story of the Muppets - "Jim Henson: A Biography" wonderfully tells the story of the man, his creations, and his care for otherswww.salon.com #

  • A Drone Warrior’s Torment: Ex-Air Force Pilot Brandon Bryant on His Trauma from Remote Killingwww.democracynow.org #

  • To this day, the game stands out as one of the most memorable City away days: Manchester City playing to the Samba beat in the London sunshine (2007)typicalcity.org #

2013/10/25 #

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  • Dealers are using Instagram to deal in mixtures of promethazine and codeine, known as Lean or Dirty Sprite, a purple liquid that you drink or sipnoisey.vice.com #

  • A Brief History of Dude - You know ... if you're into the whole brevity thingwww.theatlantic.com #

  • William Suess Thought He Was An American Until The Day He Was Deportedwww.buzzfeed.com #

  • The Secret Order of the Libertines - Hedonistic celebrity parties linked to a prominent television executive and a notorious London addresswww.kernelmag.com #

2013/10/24 #

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  • Turn your iPhone into a microscope capable of 175x magnification - Take photos of plant cellskottke.org #

  • Head teacher bans Rainbow Loom Bracelet making kits - "It's an addiction"www.dnainfo.com #

  • Explaining why dragnet surveillance is terrible, and why you should rally against itboingboing.net #

2013/10/23 #

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  • 10-monitor home-office newsroom that can record from 28 sources simultaneously - The animated GIFs sports guymobile.nytimes.com #

2013/10/22 #

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  • Hillary and Angelina’s bitter feelings have stayed below the public radar, but it’s only a matter of time before the gloves come offwww.nationalenquirer.com #

2013/10/21 #

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  • What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six monthslevels.io #

  • Good analysis of what happens when you're post does well on Hacker Newslevels.io #

  • Easily create apps using the web technologies you know and love: HTML, CSS, and JavaScriptphonegap.com #

2013/10/20 #

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  • One more reason to love Russian dash cams: Here’s a gas station attendant break dancing on a carvideos.digg.com #

  • Virgin Galactic Wants To Do Moon Cruises, Replace The Concorde For Terrestrial Traveltechcrunch.com #

  • Oakley's Heads-Up Display Ski Goggles Get a Better Batterygizmodo.com #

2013/10/19 #

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  • Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting - To an alarming degree, it is notwww.economist.com #

  • Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretationnorvig.com #

  • Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connectionartsy.net #

  • Video of illustrators drawing in the Hobonichi Techo day plannerboingboing.net #

2013/10/14 #

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  • Hostnames list from the writer of the Rush render management software Greg Ercolanoseriss.com #

  • HN Thread: Discussion about Hostnames with some amusing stories (if you've ever been a sys admin that is)news.ycombinator.com #

  • Marshall McLuhan: "The medium is the message" - the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceiveden.wikipedia.org #

  • The R&D dept at Banksy HQ. This is a parody account, yeah?twitter.com #

  • Innovation exists only when the correctly credentialed hivemind agrees that it doeswww.salon.com #

2013/10/12 #

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2013/10/09 #

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  • Muslim leader says pope is model of what religious leader should bencronline.org #

  • Alarming mass die-off of starfish along Canada’s Pacific coast - “They’ve disintegrated, now there’s just goo left” - Similar reports as far away as Californiaenenews.com #

2013/10/06 #

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  • Absurd Creature of the Week: This Prehistoric Elephant Had a Huge Spork for a Mouthwww.wired.com #

  • 7 timeless life tips from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasinktank.fi #

  • Introducing Harp - the static web server with built-in preprocessingsintaxi.com #

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