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2013/11/30 #

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  • Japan’s plan to supply all the world’s energy from a giant solar power plant on the moonqz.com #

  • Viral content is going to be a terrible business modelpando.com #

  • Backlift enables designers and front-end developers to build and launch a website using Dropbox as the backendwww.backlift.com #

  • Backlift, The YC-Backed Back-End Service For Front-End Developers, Launches A/B Testing Servicetechcrunch.com #

  • Facebook use 'can reveal if you're a psychopath' - posting about prostitutes, decapitation, pornography and butchers means your a psychowww.thelocal.se #

2013/11/29 #

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  • Kinematics is a system for 4D printing - The system provides a way to turn any three-dimensional shape such as dresses into a flexible structure using 3D printingn-e-r-v-o-u-s.com #

  • Remy Sharp - Optimising your devtools workflow by using watch expressions and live-updateremysharp.com #

2013/11/27 #

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2013/11/23 #

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  • Ison: The comet of the century - Astronomers hope that on 3 December a comet will appear on the eastern horizonwww.bbc.co.uk #

  • Science Museum London to sell MakerBot products and "3D: printing the future" exhibition on display through February 2014www.makerbot.com #

2013/11/22 #

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  • Germany threatens to jail Carl Malamud for making the law available for freeboingboing.net #

  • Sarah Silverman on Changing Her Comedic Identity and How the Real Housewives Inspire Her Deepest, Darkest Materialwww.vanityfair.com #

  • A Topless, Chainsaw-Wielding Ukrainian Woman Chopped Down A Crucifix To Protest Pussy Riotmotherboard.vice.com #

  • The incredible story of Marion Stokes, who single-handedly taped 35 years of tv newswww.fastcompany.com #

  • Medical marijuana patients outed by Health Canadametronews.ca #

  • Face-o-Mat: absolutely delightful faux-automatic portrait machineboingboing.net #

2013/11/20 #

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  • Dynamic tangible display renders 3D data in physical formboingboing.net #

  • How Three Decades of News Coverage Has Shaped Our View of the World - Interesting maps showing the distortion news coverage createswww.theatlantic.com #

  • Obama’s Secret Attempt to Ban Cellphone Unlocking, While Claiming to Support Itwww.slate.com #

  • Bob Dylan - Live a rolling stone interactive video - pretty amazing watch several timesvideo.bobdylan.com #

2013/11/18 #

Today’s links:

  • You can't beat politics with technology, says Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde - urges people to dispel their political apathy to prevent the emergence of a new Stasi-style era of oppressionwww.wired.co.uk #

  • Secure, Free, Incremental and Instant Backups for Linuxgrepular.com #

  • Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Publishedwww.nytimes.com #

2013/11/17 #

Today’s links:

  • The First Time With... Matt chats to Kim Gordon, formerly bassist, vocalist and guitarist with Sonic Youth, about key first musical moments in her life (Radio 6)www.bbc.co.uk #

  • Brewed free in catalonia - In Catalonia, booming local microbrews are just another way for people to express their independenceroadsandkingdoms.com #

  • It happened to me: i'm living like i'm in the victorian era -- from corsets to washing bowls to writing in liquid inkwww.xojane.com #

  • Roll your own Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync on Amazon EC2samglover.net #

2013/11/16 #

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  • When a Guy is Bullied, He’s “Not a Man.” When a Female is Bullied, She’s “Just a Woman.”www.slate.com #

2013/11/15 #

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  • Do We Live in the Matrix? Tests could reveal whether we are part of a giant computer simulationdiscovermagazine.com #

  • 21 JavaScript Parts I Struggle To Remembertech.pro #

  • Upworthy - The Internet's latest viral wizard matches smart technology and lily-white earnestness to market "stuff that matters" onlinewww.theatlantic.com #

  • Kids To People Who Are Afraid Of Gays: 'If I'd Have Gotten A Bunch Of Microscopes, Would I Be Gay?'www.upworthy.com #

  • A Marine Was Assaulted - Her Commander Said She Deserved It For Wearing Running Shortswww.upworthy.com #

  • EFF: Stop Secret Copyright Treaties - Tell Congress to Stand Up For Users' Rightsaction.eff.org #

  • What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interviewbrandonb.cc #

2013/11/13 #

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  • Netflix ditches Webkit to roll out slick new UI for smart TVs, Roku boxes and game consolesgigaom.com #

  • Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt before abolishing itwww.theguardian.com #

  • In Lavabit Appeal, U.S. Doubles Down on Access to Web Crypto Keyswww.wired.com #

2013/11/10 #

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  • Born on this day in 1940, David Edward Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Partyen.wikipedia.org #

  • Power Plants and Other Vital Systems Are Totally Exposed on the Internetwww.wired.com #

2013/11/09 #

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2013/11/08 #

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2013/11/06 #

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  • We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know Itwww.wired.com #

  • Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests - PBS Blank on Blank seriesboingboing.net #

  • We Work Remotely is the best place to find and list jobs that aren’t restricted by commutes or a particular geographic areaweworkremotely.com #

  • Alfred Russell Wallace - The Man Science Forgot - Animated story video about the other guy to discover natural selectiondigg.com #

  • Liam Morgan uses snowboarding techniques while skateboarding down some of the long, steep, twisting roads in the coastal canyons of Los Angelesboingboing.net #

2013/11/03 #

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