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2013/08/31 #

  • 00:33:00 -05:00 NASA-backed SpiderFab robot aims to build 3D-printed spaceship parts in orbit# www.theverge.com

  • 17:07:00 -05:00 Is pot now essentially legal in America?# theweek.com

  • 23:41:00 -05:00 HotWheels builds highest wall track ever in Barcelona# www.autoweek.com

2013/08/28 #

  • 01:03:00 -05:00 Anatomy of a hack: How the SEA took down the NYT and Twitter# gigaom.com

  • 02:18:00 -05:00 What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate (And How it Benefits You)# lifehacker.com

  • 04:40:00 -05:00 Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew - Command Line Tools for XCode# kennethreitz.org

  • 04:43:00 -05:00 Node Version Manager - Simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions# github.com

  • 04:57:00 -05:00 Backbone-Associations: Backbone plugin to specify 1:1 & 1:N associations between Backbone Models# dhruvaray.github.io

  • 10:01:00 -05:00 Meet Armpits4August, the Female Version of Movember# nymag.com

2013/08/27 #

  • 01:46:00 -05:00 Mass surveilance places politicians and the security services at loggerheads# www.theguardian.com

  • 08:05:00 -05:00 Australian Election: A Game of Polls [RAP NEWS 20]# www.youtube.com

  • 22:51:00 -05:00 The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange "no money or makets" economy# io9.com

2013/08/26 #

  • 00:52:00 -05:00 How Americans and Europeans see each other# i.imgur.com

  • 09:44:00 -05:00 This Japanese horse racing game might be one of the most bizarre video games ever created# videos.digg.com

  • 09:49:00 -05:00 Have Archaeologists Discovered the Grave of Alexander the Great?# intellihub.com

  • 23:35:00 -05:00 Dear Prime Minister Cameron - An open letter from Scandinavian media organisations# www.aftenposten.no

  • 23:53:00 -05:00 To make journalism harder, slower, less secure# pressthink.org

2013/08/25 #

2013/08/24 #

  • 00:45:00 -05:00 How far the once mighty SourceForge has fallen…# www.gluster.org

  • 02:29:00 -05:00 Google Designing Its Own Self-Driving Car, Considers ‘Robo Taxi’# jessicalessin.com

  • 05:25:00 -05:00 Building a Sails Application: Ep1 - Installing Sails and Create Initial Project# www.youtube.com

  • 06:31:00 -05:00 Sails.js Chat application# github.com

  • 08:46:00 -05:00 Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?# blogs.hbr.org

  • 10:57:00 -05:00 *SPARK-DFUSER: Crossfading for laptops# sparklive.net

  • 11:51:00 -05:00 Dangers of loneliness: Social isolation is deadlier than obesity# www.slate.com

  • 13:10:00 -05:00 Objects and sounds in a third grade classroom, remixed by students# boingboing.net

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2013/08/17 #

  • 00:53:00 -05:00 The Secret Behind America's Only Mile High Club Airline# priceonomics.com

  • 01:08:00 -05:00 Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" reenacted with librarians# boingboing.net

  • 03:45:00 -05:00 Terms And Conditions May Apply (2013) - "This documentary should be mandatory viewing for everyone who uses the internet."# tacma.net

2013/08/16 #

  • 00:43:00 -05:00 The Presurfer: Man On An Edge: What It's Like to Be A Window Washer In New York City# presurfer.blogspot.com

  • 01:19:00 -05:00 The Innovation of Loneliness: short film based on Sherry Turkle book 'Alone Together'# boingboing.net

  • 02:28:00 -05:00 NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen# www.eff.org

  • 02:35:00 -05:00 Dutch ebook sellers promise to spy on everyone's reading habits, share them with "anti-piracy" group# boingboing.net

2013/08/15 #

  • 01:09:00 -05:00 Can You Diagnose a Manic Episode on Twitter?# nymag.com

  • 04:16:00 -05:00 How to: Secure Erase your Solid State Drive (SSD) with Parted Magic# www.youtube.com

  • 09:57:00 -05:00 Vintage Vice, a playlist of old-timey songs of drugs, sex, and booze# boingboing.net

2013/08/14 #

  • 00:51:00 -05:00 FileShredder Securely Deletes Files from Your Mac# lifehacker.com

  • 01:09:00 -05:00 How to Make Yourself Indispensable at Work# lifehacker.com

  • 01:46:00 -05:00 IamA Guy who quit his job, sold his car, moved out and bought a one-way ticket to Africa. I spent the next year and a half traveling across the entire continent, mostly overland and solo. AMA! : IAmA# www.reddit.com

  • 06:37:00 -05:00 Secret Garden of Survival: How to grow a camouflaged food forest# www.amazon.com

2013/08/13 #

  • 00:19:00 -05:00 NSA Uses Super Fun Game to Help Its Analysts Spy On Everyone# gawker.com

  • 00:28:00 -05:00 Man with OCD Blows Internet Away with Hauntingly Stirring Love Poem# gawker.com

  • 00:33:00 -05:00 I Can't Stop Watching This Cute Dog Play Fetch With Himself# gawker.com

  • 09:43:00 -05:00 Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation# www.businessweek.com

  • 10:21:00 -05:00 Russian highway - Truckload of gas cylinders explodes 39 times# boingboing.net

  • 22:02:00 -05:00 INJECTABLE OXYGEN KEEPS PEOPLE ALIVE WITHOUT BREATHING# techandfacts.com

2013/08/12 #

  • 00:14:00 -05:00 Jacob Appelbaum: You broke the Internet - We're making ourselves a GNU one# m.youtube.com

  • 00:15:00 -05:00 You broke the Internet - We're making ourselves a GNU one - Christian Grothoff, Carlo von Lynx, Jacob Appelbaum and Richard Stallman# gnunet.org

2013/08/11 #

  • 00:06:00 -05:00 3D Printing Will Explode in 2014 When Key Patents Expire# mashable.com

  • 00:17:00 -05:00 Showterm - record terminal sessions and upload to the web# showterm.io

  • 23:53:00 -05:00 HOWTO over-under cable-coiling for less tangles and longer-lived wires# boingboing.net

2013/08/08 #

  • 23:41:00 -05:00 Words - It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words - But this hour, we try to do just that# www.radiolab.org

2013/08/07 #

  • 01:06:00 -05:00 Sex, lies, and subtweets: Ohio high school tormented by Twitter gossip# www.theverge.com

  • 04:17:00 -05:00 How To Track Anything With Google Analytics Event Tracking# www.youtube.com

  • 12:15:00 -05:00 Sterling's "The Ecuadorian Library" vs civil liberties groups# boingboing.net

2013/08/05 #

  • 03:39:00 -05:00 The Blast Shack - Geek Empire - Bruce Stirling (2010)# medium.com

  • 06:40:00 -05:00 Bruce Sterling: The Ecuadorian Library or, The Blast Shack After Three Years# medium.com

  • 12:59:00 -05:00 DJ Booth Review: Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB Professional Vinyl DJ Turntable HD-Video# www.youtube.com

2013/08/04 #

2013/08/03 #

  • 00:04:00 -05:00 UK phone companies turned a profit by shoveling customer data into GCHQ's maw# boingboing.net

  • 00:06:00 -05:00 Alice on a ladder, reaching for a book tattoo# boingboing.net

  • 00:09:00 -05:00 FBI pays for malware so it can spy on us with our phones and computers# boingboing.net

  • 00:40:00 -05:00 Interns in the Age of the Employment Selfie# nymag.com

  • 00:50:00 -05:00 Skateboarder Bob Burnquist's Backyard Dreamland# devour.com

  • 08:01:00 -05:00 Tracking Twitter Buttons in Google Analytics# www.napkyn.com

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