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2013/10/26 #

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

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

  • 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 #

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

  • 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 #

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

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

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

2013/10/24 #

  • Turn your iPhone into a microscope capable of 175x magnification - Take photos of plant cells kottke.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 it boingboing.net #

2013/10/21 #

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

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

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

2013/10/20 #

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

  • What Chefs Eat When They’ve Finished Feeding Everyone Else www.nytimes.com #

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

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

2013/10/19 #

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

  • Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation norvig.com #

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

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

2013/10/14 #

  • Hostnames list from the writer of the Rush render management software Greg Ercolano seriss.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 perceived en.wikipedia.org #

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

  • Banksy Sold Original Canvases In Central Park And Nobody Noticed www.banksyny.com #

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

2013/10/12 #

2013/10/09 #

  • Muslim leader says pope is model of what religious leader should be ncronline.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 California enenews.com #

2013/10/06 #

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

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

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

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