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2014/05/28 #

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  • Escape from the matrix - The fear of missing out haunts our social networks and our real lives alike - But there is a way to break freeaeon.co #

  • The World's First Wingsuit BASE Jumping Dogdigg.com #

  • Skateboard that Can Go Down Stairsdigg.com #

  • Here’s what happens when you introduce airport-style security to the world’s busiest subwayqz.com #

2014/05/23 #

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  • The Military Is Shutting Down HAARP - Its Weather-Controlling Death Beamio9.com #

  • China: Baby Falls Out Of Window, Man Makes Amazing Catch (weird video)digg.com #

  • Discovered two days ago that dealership where I bought my car had covered up the passenger airbag / baby seat alert light with a plastic disk ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • This Drug Defendant Spoke Her Mind, Then A Judge Told Her She’d Stay In Jail Until She Retracted Her Statements To The Mediathinkprogress.org #

  • Will Ferrell And His Red Hot Chili Peppers Doppelganger Have A Drum-Off / Calling Each Other Babies -Offdigg.com #

  • Conan Tries To Review 'Watchdogs'digg.com #

  • Angry London cabbies attack Hailo taxi app officewww.bbc.com #

  • Is It Better to Rent or Buy? Calculator that takes the most important costs associated with buying a house and computes the equivalent monthly rentwww.nytimes.com #

  • Guy Walks Across The Ceiling With Magnetic Shoesdigg.com #

2014/05/22 #

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  • Anderson Cooper Dismantles Talk Show Host's Homophobic Criticism Of Michael Samdigg.com #

  • Yet another study points to pesticides as cause of bee death disorderboingboing.net #

2014/05/21 #

Today’s links:

  • Galactic positioning system - We can point to our home on a globe, and find Earth in a model of the solar system, but where are we in the Milky Way?aeon.co #

  • Heard about on the radio this morning: The Whirling Dervishes of Istanbulm.youtube.com #

  • Prince Charles 'compared Russian actions to Nazis'www.bbc.com #

  • ¯_(ツ)_/¯

2014/05/20 #

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  • To change false beliefs, appealing to a person’s sense of self may be more important than the factswww.newyorker.com #

  • The Netflix Panopticon: What Television Will Look Like in 2025, According to Netflixwww.wired.com #

  • The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamasfirstlook.org #

  • This is what secret surveillance, suspicion based society does to most of humanity (the 1% enjoy endless holidays in the Bahamas)digg.com #

  • Twitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloudrecode.net #

  • Sir Nicholas George Winton "The British Schindler" celebrates his 105th birthday todayen.wikipedia.org #

2014/05/19 #

Today’s links:

  • The FCC Thinks We're All Idiots (Very well written article about Net Neutrality)gizmodo.com #

  • A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emailsgithub.com #

  • Tens of thousands in Australian cities protest Abbott government's health, welfare and education cuts, Murdoch press runs with "The Ferals Are Revolting"www.pedestrian.tv #

  • It appears that the one thing Star Trek: The Next Generation was missing was sausageswww.metafilter.com #

  • Bowie's takedown of Hadfield's ISS "Space Oddity" highlights copyright's absurdityboingboing.net #

2014/05/17 #

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  • This Visualization Of Sorting Algorithms Is As Fascinating As It Is Horrifying #todayirl #oppositeoffundigg.com #

2014/05/16 #

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  • Newsweek conspiracy theory hit piece, laying the foundation to justify the necessity for a secret elite cabal to rule our crazy worldwww.newsweek.com #

  • Mozilla CAN change the industry: by adding DRM, they change it for the worseboingboing.net #

  • Aussie politician calls rival a "c*nt" in Parliament, then withdraws, gets away with itboingboing.net #

2014/05/15 #

Today’s links:

  • Eight Terminal Utilities Every OS X Command Line User Should Knowwww.mitchchn.me #

  • This Place - In the first release of This Place, we explore the Oregon Coast through a short film and series of interactive vignettesvimeo.com #

  • How Is Orphan Black An Illustration of the Simulacrum? How we might all be clones #usirlwww.youtube.com #

  • Phantom Limb - In the aftermath of an accident a young couple learn to deal with phantom painsvimeo.com #

2014/05/13 #

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  • Bletchley Park Trust erects "Berlin Wall" to cut off on-site computer history museumboingboing.net #

  • Human Rights Watch calls for an international ban on "killer robots"m.hrw.org #

  • Syncthing replaces Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync with something open, trustworthy and decentralizedsyncthing.net #

  • Spurious Correlations finds the hidden, totally pointless connections between everythingwww.theverge.com #

  • Anti-corruption anti-PAC nearly at $1M mark, thanks to tech heroesboingboing.net #

2014/05/11 #

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2014/05/10 #

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  • The Day Our Daughter Got Hit - my wife and I were living our worst nightmare, it only grew darker when we became the prime suspectsnarrative.ly #

  • Ireland out of Eurovision: Kasey Smith and the Irish traditional group Can-Linn, failed to impress with their song Heartbeatwww.bbc.com #

  • Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels (and affecting the DEA)news.vice.com #

  • Appeals Court Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Software And An API; Declares APIs Copyrightablewww.techdirt.com #

2014/05/09 #

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2014/05/08 #

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  • Your Movie Sucks Reviews 'Nymphomaniac'digg.com #

  • It’s on: Google, Facebook, Amazon and more slam the FCC’s plan for Internet ‘fast lanes’bgr.com #

2014/05/07 #

Today’s links:

  • Boing Boing celebrates 25 years with a homepage redesign with a refocus on zine-style journalism, art, and the abject nonsense in our soulsboingboing.net #

  • A History Of Net Neutrality: Girl Uses Coloured Markers Really Quickly While Speaking At Regular Speeddigg.com #

  • The Skate Scene In Ethiopia Looks Amazingdigg.com #

2014/05/05 #

Today’s links:

  • Lawrence Lessig is sending out a mayday, help him fix the american governmentwww.dailydot.com #

  • Cory Doctorow: How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillancewww.locusmag.com #

  • Kids, it seems, intuitively understand what it's like to be constantly monitored by unaccountable, self-appointed authority figures!boingboing.net #

2014/05/03 #

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