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2013/10/31 #

2013/10/28 #

  • 00:30:00 -05:00 Best free set of network troubleshooting & domain tools on the net# w3dt.net

  • 01:00:00 -05:00 Spain summons US ambassador over claim NSA tracked 60m calls a month# www.theguardian.com

  • 12:54:00 -05:00 Today’s piece was going to be an op-ed column in the New York Times - But they declined to publish what I supplied - Which was this...# www.banksyny.com

2013/10/27 #

  • 02:13:00 -05:00 NSA surveillance: Merkel's phone may have been monitored 'for over 10 years'# www.theguardian.com

  • 02:41:00 -05:00 12 Awesome CSS3 Features That You Can Finally Start Using# tutorialzine.com

  • 03:09:00 -05:00 How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary# samizdat.mines.edu

  • 08:31:00 -05:00 It's not a bug, it's a feature: the rise of glitch art - Artists are using digital glitches to create work that questions the forms and traditions of art# www.theguardian.com

  • 08:32:00 -05:00 Glitch Artists# gli.tc

  • 08:36:00 -05:00 gli.tc/h - festival that celebrates glitch art# gli.tc

  • 15:42:00 -05:00 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)# www.imdb.com

2013/10/26 #

  • 01:33:00 -05:00 EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal# www.eff.org

  • 01:58:00 -05:00 Nigeria Has The Most Absurdly Crooked Soccer League On The Planet# deadspin.com

  • 02:04:00 -05:00 The inside story of the Muppets - "Jim Henson: A Biography" wonderfully tells the story of the man, his creations, and his care for others# www.salon.com

  • 02:24:00 -05:00 A Drone Warrior’s Torment: Ex-Air Force Pilot Brandon Bryant on His Trauma from Remote Killing# www.democracynow.org

  • 07:35:00 -05:00 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 #

  • 02:38:00 -05:00 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 sip# noisey.vice.com

  • 02:39:00 -05:00 Germany wants a German Internet as spying scandal rankles# www.reuters.com

  • 02:40:00 -05:00 A Brief History of Dude - You know ... if you're into the whole brevity thing# www.theatlantic.com

  • 03:13:00 -05:00 William Suess Thought He Was An American Until The Day He Was Deported# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 07:50:00 -05:00 The Secret Order of the Libertines - Hedonistic celebrity parties linked to a prominent television executive and a notorious London address# www.kernelmag.com

  • 16:09:00 -05:00 Photographing the Unphotographable Amish# www.slate.com

2013/10/24 #

  • 01:50:00 -05:00 Turn your iPhone into a microscope capable of 175x magnification - Take photos of plant cells# kottke.org

  • 02:19:00 -05:00 Head teacher bans Rainbow Loom Bracelet making kits - "It's an addiction"# www.dnainfo.com

  • 13:41:00 -05:00 Confessions of a Drone Warrior# www.gq.com

  • 14:00:00 -05:00 Explaining why dragnet surveillance is terrible, and why you should rally against it# boingboing.net

  • 14:13:00 -05:00 Internet Domain Name Expansion Now Underway# www.icann.org

2013/10/23 #

  • 05:17:00 -05:00 10-monitor home-office newsroom that can record from 28 sources simultaneously - The animated GIFs sports guy# mobile.nytimes.com

2013/10/22 #

  • 12:57:00 -05:00 Hillary and Angelina’s bitter feelings have stayed below the public radar, but it’s only a matter of time before the gloves come off# www.nationalenquirer.com

2013/10/21 #

  • 01:50:00 -05:00 Mike Tyson: My Life As a Young Thug# nymag.com

  • 07:28:00 -05:00 What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months# levels.io

  • 07:45:00 -05:00 Good analysis of what happens when you're post does well on Hacker News# levels.io

  • 10:34:00 -05:00 Easily create apps using the web technologies you know and love: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript# phonegap.com

  • 15:17:00 -05:00 Futurists try out less-boring, funnier Singularities# boingboing.net

2013/10/20 #

  • 07:25:00 -05:00 One more reason to love Russian dash cams: Here’s a gas station attendant break dancing on a car# videos.digg.com

  • 07:25:00 -05:00 What Chefs Eat When They’ve Finished Feeding Everyone Else# www.nytimes.com

  • 07:31:00 -05:00 Virgin Galactic Wants To Do Moon Cruises, Replace The Concorde For Terrestrial Travel# techcrunch.com

  • 09:25:00 -05:00 Why Are We So Terrible At Contacting Aliens?# www.theawl.com

  • 10:16:00 -05:00 Oakley's Heads-Up Display Ski Goggles Get a Better Battery# gizmodo.com

2013/10/19 #

  • 03:40:00 -05:00 Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting - To an alarming degree, it is not# www.economist.com

  • 03:42:00 -05:00 Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation# norvig.com

  • 04:09:00 -05:00 Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection# artsy.net

  • 13:39:00 -05:00 Video of illustrators drawing in the Hobonichi Techo day planner# boingboing.net

2013/10/15 #

  • 09:02:00 -05:00 Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?# www.wired.com

  • 09:27:00 -05:00 Man Spends 40 Years Building Giant Kinetic Carnival Rides to Advertise Family Restaurant in Italy# www.thisiscolossal.com

2013/10/14 #

  • 01:10:00 -05:00 Hostnames list from the writer of the Rush render management software Greg Ercolano# seriss.com

  • 01:12:00 -05:00 HN Thread: Discussion about Hostnames with some amusing stories (if you've ever been a sys admin that is)# news.ycombinator.com

  • 01:43:00 -05:00 Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again# redecentralize.org

  • 02:27:00 -05:00 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 perceived# en.wikipedia.org

  • 09:19:00 -05:00 Brazil accuses Canada of economic espionage# intelnews.org

  • 11:53:00 -05:00 Banksy hits New York City, but the city hits back# www.theverge.com

  • 12:06:00 -05:00 The R&D dept at Banksy HQ. This is a parody account, yeah?# twitter.com

  • 14:52:00 -05:00 Banksy Sold Original Canvases In Central Park And Nobody Noticed# www.banksyny.com

  • 15:27:00 -05:00 Innovation exists only when the correctly credentialed hivemind agrees that it does# www.salon.com

2013/10/13 #

  • 00:46:00 -05:00 Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics# www.salon.com

  • 04:21:00 -05:00 This Netflix employee just raised the bar for awesome customer service# venturebeat.com

  • 12:21:00 -05:00 Republic of Ireland to exit bailout in December, says PM# www.bbc.co.uk

2013/10/12 #

  • 01:02:00 -05:00 Iconic: Advanced icons for the modern web# useiconic.com

  • 01:03:00 -05:00 Wikileaks talking points memo about the Dreamworlks film The Fifth Estate# wikileaks.org

  • 01:34:00 -05:00 What Do We Get for That DRM? The W3C sells out users without seeming to get anything in return# programming.oreilly.com

  • 01:37:00 -05:00 Entrepreneurs in NYC charge $20 to peek at Banksy stencil# boingboing.net

  • 03:29:00 -05:00 WFMU: Michael Shelley: Playlists and Archives# www.wfmu.org

  • 15:06:00 -05:00 TimelineJS - Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy and intuitive to use# timeline.knightlab.com

  • 15:07:00 -05:00 TimelineJS - A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript# github.com

2013/10/11 #

  • 03:40:00 -05:00 The Size Of The Part Of Earth's Surface Directly Under Various Space Objects# xkcd.com

  • 03:44:00 -05:00 Mark Zuckerberg Just Spent More Than $30 Million Buying 4 Neighboring Houses For Privacy# www.businessinsider.com

  • 04:11:00 -05:00 Full list of CBC Music direct URLs# misener.org

  • 07:07:00 -05:00 The story of a young orphan who reinvented herself and became Coco Chanel# www.youtube.com

2013/10/09 #

  • 01:02:00 -05:00 Muslim leader says pope is model of what religious leader should be# ncronline.org

  • 01:38:00 -05:00 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 California# enenews.com

2013/10/08 #

  • 07:58:00 -05:00 Henry Rollins: The One Decision that Changed My Life Forever# www.youtube.com

  • 11:14:00 -05:00 Bhangra and Beyond: The History of Asian Music in Britain (Radio 6 Documentary)# www.bbc.co.uk

  • 13:50:00 -05:00 David Byrne: If the 1% stifles New York's creative talent, I'm out of here# www.theguardian.com

2013/10/06 #

  • 01:21:00 -05:00 Absurd Creature of the Week: This Prehistoric Elephant Had a Huge Spork for a Mouth# www.wired.com

  • 01:32:00 -05:00 Dragondinosaurmonster fingerless mittens# www.etsy.com

  • 01:44:00 -05:00 7 timeless life tips from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas# inktank.fi

  • 13:17:00 -05:00 Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult# www.reuters.com

  • 13:48:00 -05:00 Introducing Harp - the static web server with built-in preprocessing# sintaxi.com

  • 15:59:00 -05:00 Snowboard team practice for Winter Olympics in Middle Earth# www.nytimes.com

2013/10/05 #

  • 02:23:00 -05:00 Amanda Palmer: an open letter to sinéad o’connor, re: miley cyrus# amandapalmer.net

  • 05:11:00 -05:00 I Bought a House With Money I Made From Airbnb# thebillfold.com

  • 11:32:00 -05:00 Three New Banksy Pieces Go Up: Williamsburg, LES, Bushwick: Gothamist# gothamist.com

  • 18:14:00 -05:00 Bruce Schneier: how to make the world freer with the Internet# boingboing.net

2013/10/04 #

2013/10/03 #

  • 23:38:00 -05:00 Lowering Your Standards: DRM and the Future of the W3C# www.eff.org

  • 23:59:00 -05:00 Banksy sets out on month long graffito tour on streets of New York# m.bbc.co.uk

2013/10/02 #

  • 01:01:00 -05:00 Blizzident releases 3D printed 6 seconds toothbrush tailored to your teeth# www.3ders.org

  • 05:01:00 -05:00 This is what it sounds like when dudes cry - a monologue by Jeff Simmermon# boingboing.net

  • 07:13:00 -05:00 Bootply: Bootstrap editor, visual builder and playground - Fiddle with JavaScript, CSS, HTML5 and jQuery# www.bootply.com

  • 16:22:00 -05:00 The Married Women of AshleyMadison.com# www.gq.com

2013/10/01 #

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