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2013/12/31 #

  • 02:25:00 -05:00 The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple's iPhone# www.dailydot.com

  • 02:35:00 -05:00 Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins by carefully chewing and passing them around# www.independent.co.uk

  • 02:48:00 -05:00 Genderswitched Bilbo makes The Hobbit a better read# boingboing.net

  • 02:52:00 -05:00 British Ex-Spy Launches Fund to Support Whistleblowers Like Snowden# www.wired.com

  • 02:56:00 -05:00 "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and more newly uploaded B-movies at archive.org# boingboing.net

  • 06:40:00 -05:00 Spain Declares War on Pigeons With Net Catapult# www.wired.com

2013/12/30 #

  • 04:18:00 -05:00 I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass# www.wired.com

  • 04:26:00 -05:00 Russia Screening of Pussy Riot Film Is Blocked# www.nytimes.com

  • 08:45:00 -05:00 The future of Spike Jonze's 'Her' is already here# www.dailydot.com

  • 13:08:00 -05:00 We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It# www.wired.com

  • 13:20:00 -05:00 Judge decides there is no recourse to challenge the collection of personal data because Congress never intended for targets to ever know that they were subject to this sort of spying# www.washingtonpost.com

  • 17:30:00 -05:00 Tom Waits: "A Day in Vienna", Austrian TV documentary# boingboing.net

2013/12/27 #

  • 03:13:00 -05:00 Three decades after growing up in a European free-love commune, Paul-Julien Robert plunged into the film archives to make the extraordinary documentary, My Fathers, My Mother and Me# www.thedailybeast.com

  • 04:51:00 -05:00 Guy gets ripped on Cocaine, LSD And Ketamine while at work wrapping Christmas presents dressed up as an elf# digg.com

  • 06:07:00 -05:00 Brunch is an ultra-fast HTML5 build tool# brunch.io

  • 06:25:00 -05:00 Mark Cuban: When people connect to their phones for anything other than an occasional text or email it means we have failed at entertaining our customers# www.wired.com

  • 08:28:00 -05:00 Most Popular Feature Films Released In 2014# www.imdb.com

  • 09:21:00 -05:00 Theory of Obscurity: Documentary about The Residents# boingboing.net

2013/12/26 #

  • 05:01:00 -05:00 Atheist Christmas carol: There's No Christmas in Hell# boingboing.net

  • 05:06:00 -05:00 How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates -- then went and played for them# www.citeworld.com

  • 05:39:00 -05:00 Russia is built along the same lines as a prison camp at the moment, so it's important to change the prison camps so that we can start to change Russia# www.theguardian.com

  • 11:17:00 -05:00 One Page Mania is a collection of only the best One Page Website designs from around the web# onepagemania.com

2013/12/25 #

  • 03:46:00 -05:00 Showgirls - Two Filmmakers Go Gonzo At The Club “Where Strippers Go To Die"# www.vice.com

  • 04:41:00 -05:00 The Best Story Yet About The UK's Online Porn Filters# www.forbes.com

  • 04:56:00 -05:00 Music publishers claim to own "Silent Night" & ripoff indie Youtube singer# boingboing.net

  • 05:06:00 -05:00 The ‘Nymphomaniac’ Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know About Lars von Trier’s Epic Study of Sexual Obsession# www.indiewire.com

  • 05:55:00 -05:00 Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies# www.bloomberg.com

  • 11:06:00 -05:00 Edward Snowden will deliver Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message# www.independent.co.uk

2013/12/24 #

  • 02:12:00 -05:00 Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished# www.washingtonpost.com

  • 02:34:00 -05:00 Shrine of Santa Muerte (Holy Death) - Hundreds of people flock daily to Mexico City’s colonial center to ask for health, wealth, prosperity and happiness# www.vocativ.com

  • 05:12:00 -05:00 France’s Graffiti Général Gets Virtual Afterlife on Eve of Its Destruction# motherboard.vice.com

  • 05:24:00 -05:00 UK's new national firewall: O2's "parental control" list blocks Slashdot, EFF, and Boing Boing# boingboing.net

2013/12/23 #

  • 03:10:00 -05:00 Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot released from Russian prison in Sochi Olympics amnesty# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 03:27:00 -05:00 Excerpted from God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis# www.slate.com

  • 10:59:00 -05:00 Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice# www.theguardian.com

  • 12:46:00 -05:00 Canadian spies lied to judge to obtain surveillance warrants, deliberately misinterpreted law and asked other countries' intelligence services to spy for them# www.cbc.ca

  • 18:15:00 -05:00 Alternative Nation MTV UK Toby Amies Final Show# www.youtube.com

  • 18:20:00 -05:00 The Man Whose Mind Exploded - Documentary Trailer# www.youtube.com

  • 18:33:00 -05:00 Not All Memories Are Lost: The Man Whose Mind Exploded Reviewed# thequietus.com

2013/12/20 #

  • 02:34:00 -05:00 Turn your earbuds into custom fits with Sugru# boingboing.net

  • 02:55:00 -05:00 Walk across New Hampshire with Larry Lessig and friends to reform campaign finance and fight corruption# boingboing.net

  • 03:06:00 -05:00 One Small Step for Privacy, One Giant Leap Against Surveillance - 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously approve "The right to privacy in the digital age" UN privacy resolution# www.eff.org

  • 03:10:00 -05:00 Solar powered fire-starter - no moving parts, no flint, no fuels, no gases, and no batteries# boingboing.net

2013/12/18 #

  • 01:43:00 -05:00 The Camels Were 'Impossible': Peter O'Toole Remembers 'Arabia'# www.npr.org

  • 01:58:00 -05:00 Judge Questions Legality of N.S.A. Phone Records# www.nytimes.com

  • 09:16:00 -05:00 This Wind Map Of The Earth Is Really Beautiful - a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours# earth.nullschool.net

  • 09:25:00 -05:00 Lost Footage Of A 21-Year-Old Bob Dylan# digg.com

2013/12/16 #

  • 12:52:00 -05:00 Burner wedding features fire-jetting unicorn statue that sneeze glitter and pisses lemonade# boingboing.net

  • 12:52:00 -05:00 S.F. tech companies' civic image at stake as backlash grows# www.sfgate.com

  • 12:53:00 -05:00 Crashing Other People's Cell Phone Conversations Makes For Hilarity At The Airport# digg.com

  • 12:53:00 -05:00 University College London (UCL) astronomers have detected noble gas molecules in space for the first time in the Crab Nebula# www.astronomy.com

2013/12/15 #

  • 06:00:00 -05:00 The Craft Beer Market Has Exploded, And Now Brewers Are Worried About A Collapse# www.businessinsider.com

  • 06:12:00 -05:00 Hipster Holy Land - The Revolution Church invites both believers and non-believers to show up at a bar in Brooklyn, grab a beer and give God a chance# digg.com

  • 08:48:00 -05:00 People Blown Over In The Streets As Storm Ivar Hits Norway# digg.com

  • 09:13:00 -05:00 Man who faked sign language at Mandela memorial has faced murder, other charges# www.washingtonpost.com

2013/12/13 #

  • 05:44:00 -05:00 Real sign language interpreter translates fake one# boingboing.net

  • 06:57:00 -05:00 News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier# www.theguardian.com

  • 09:55:00 -05:00 Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA - One language is written on top of the other# www.washington.edu

  • 10:08:00 -05:00 Pirate Bay founder is being held in solitary confinement without a warrant# www.theinquirer.net

  • 10:46:00 -05:00 NASA - Hi Juno: Juno Spacecraft Listens for a Greeting from Earth# www.youtube.com

  • 16:09:00 -05:00 The Work of Zina Nicole Lahr# vimeo.com

2013/12/12 #

  • 02:19:00 -05:00 Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data# www.aclu.org

  • 02:36:00 -05:00 South Africa admits mistake over 'schizophrenic' Mandela signer# www.reuters.com

  • 02:44:00 -05:00 Atlanta's Party Animals Are Crazy About A New Spa That Claims To Cure Hangovers With An IV Drip# www.businessinsider.com

  • 04:04:00 -05:00 Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, And Conan Share A Lyft Car# digg.com

  • 15:27:00 -05:00 No Internet Week: Five internet addicts step away from their screens for a week in this short documentary# digg.com

2013/12/11 #

  • 02:06:00 -05:00 Pope Francis is Time's Person of the Year 2013# poy.time.com

  • 02:13:00 -05:00 Mandela ceremony interpreter deemed a 'fake'# news.yahoo.com

  • 08:14:00 -05:00 Canada's spooks were NSA bagmen, established spy-posts in 20+ countries and "transnational targets"# boingboing.net

  • 08:15:00 -05:00 FreeBSD won't use Intel & Via's hardware random number generators, believes NSA has compromised them# boingboing.net

2013/12/10 #

  • 01:04:00 -05:00 websocketd - Turn any application that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a web sockets server# github.com

  • 01:21:00 -05:00 Mountain Goats Miraculously Escape Avalanche# digg.com

  • 05:40:00 -05:00 C.I.A, F.B.I, Pentagon and GCHQ spies play World of Warcraft all day long to "spy" on online communities# business.financialpost.com

2013/12/09 #

  • 05:19:00 -05:00 FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light# gizmodo.com

  • 09:58:00 -05:00 Shameful Profiling of the Mentally Ill - Canadians are being turned away at the US border because of depression - Governments might be exchanging medical records# www.nytimes.com

  • 12:23:00 -05:00 Taylor University has a tradition called the Silent Night where the entire crowd remains dead silent until the tenth point is scored# digg.com

2013/12/08 #

  • 04:00:00 -05:00 Dharamsala, population 20,000 and one of the most hacked places in the world - home to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader# www.foreignpolicy.com

  • 04:10:00 -05:00 Banksy piece auctioned for $457,000# qz.com

  • 05:05:00 -05:00 'In Dreams' - Experimental documentary that focuses on reoccurring dreams and the effect they have on the people dreaming them# digg.com

  • 11:48:00 -05:00 Turn Beer Bottles into Attractive, Cheap Glasses# lifehacker.com

  • 11:53:00 -05:00 Porn Industry Faces Another Shutdown After Performer Tests Positive For HIV# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 12:05:00 -05:00 Turn any bike into a hybrid with the Copenhagen Wheel - a motorized disk unit that attaches to the rear wheel# www.superpedestrian.com

  • 12:57:00 -05:00 Glitchy A/V art installation about "space-time compression"# boingboing.net

  • 20:02:00 -05:00 David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'# www.theguardian.com

2013/12/07 #

  • 05:42:00 -05:00 Adam Curtis: What the Fluck! - The point at which journalism fails and modern power begins# www.bbc.co.uk

  • 09:25:00 -05:00 US Spy Satellite Logo Not At All Subtle: Octopus Enveloping The Earth# www.techdirt.com

  • 11:54:00 -05:00 Stoned Kids: Eight-year-old leukemia patient who takes massive amounts of weed to treat her illness, her family believes in palliative aspect and also that pot can literally shrink tumors# www.vice.com

2013/12/05 #

  • 06:25:00 -05:00 Day of the Dead Mexican Holiday Inspires New Pixar Film# mexicotoday.org

  • 13:34:00 -05:00 Idea Channel: Your Questions Answered! The making of the show and other stuff# www.youtube.com

  • 13:35:00 -05:00 Idea Channel: MORE of Your Questions Answered! The making of the show and other stuff# www.youtube.com

2013/12/04 #

  • 05:04:00 -05:00 Colorado town is poised to vote in the next week and a half on an ordinance that will allow drone hunting# www.nationaljournal.com

  • 05:36:00 -05:00 Stars pose naked with fish - The global marine ecosystem will collapse within a generation if unsustainable fishing practices are allowed to continue# www.dailymail.co.uk

  • 06:13:00 -05:00 Sugru - Magnets are freaking awesome - Attach anything to anything with sugru + magnets!# sugru.com

2013/12/03 #

  • 02:22:00 -05:00 Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines the web# www.theguardian.com

  • 02:28:00 -05:00 Dockbox.io - Host websites in Dropbox using your domain# dockbox.io

  • 02:35:00 -05:00 Calepin.co - Publishing for writers who love Markdown and Dropbox# calepin.co

  • 02:38:00 -05:00 Scriptogr.am - Easily turn a Dropbox folder into a blog# scriptogr.am

  • 02:58:00 -05:00 Linux Voice Magazine - Fifty percent of profits will go straight back to FOSS and Linux communities, content to be made open source# www.raspberrypi.org

  • 03:47:00 -05:00 As Hospital Prices Soar, a Single Stitch Tops $500# www.nytimes.com

  • 04:53:00 -05:00 Brace.io - Host websites from your Dropbox# brace.io

  • 09:22:00 -05:00 Overloaded Vietnamese Motorbikes That Defy Logic# sobadsogood.com

  • 19:22:00 -05:00 Without Anyone Paying Attention, Canada Is About To Change Its Laws To Support ACTA# www.techdirt.com

2013/12/02 #

  • 01:29:00 -05:00 Amazon Prime Air - Delivery to your home in 30 mins by quadcopter drone# www.amazon.com

  • 01:46:00 -05:00 Drowning in JavaScript - Analysis of top 20 sites usage of javascript# dangoldin.com

  • 02:12:00 -05:00 Ron Burgundy Co-Hosts Canadian Olympic Curling Trials# digg.com

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