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I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass wired.com #

Russia Screening of Pussy Riot Film Is Blocked nytimes.com #

The 20 best album covers of 2013 creativebloq.com #

Spain Declares War on Pigeons With Net Catapult wired.com #

The future of Spike Jonze's 'Her' is already here dailydot.com #

Top 10 Late Night Music Video Shows toptenz.net #

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It wired.com #

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 washingtonpost.com #

Tom Waits: "A Day in Vienna", Austrian TV documentary boingboing.net #

Glenn Greenwald's must-watch 30C3 keynote boingboing.net #

Crypto-anarchy does not require anonymity blog.oleganza.com #

What It Takes To Become A Special Effects Engineer theguardian.com #

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 thedailybeast.com #

Paxman vs Brand - full interview m.youtube.com #

Guy gets ripped on Cocaine, LSD And Ketamine while at work wrapping Christmas presents dressed up as an elf digg.com #

An Open Letter to the Makers of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the Wolf Himself blogs.laweekly.com #

The Rise And Fall Of Grunge Typography theawl.com #

Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List openculture.com #

Brunch is an ultra-fast HTML5 build tool brunch.io #

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 wired.com #

Do We Want an Erasable Internet? online.wsj.com #

Most Popular Feature Films Released In 2014 imdb.com #

Theory of Obscurity: Documentary about The Residents boingboing.net #

Ze Frank: If you are in a shell... youtube.com #

7 Immortals - "Thursday Night Live" youtube.com #

Showgirls - Two Filmmakers Go Gonzo At The Club “Where Strippers Go To Die" vice.com #

The Best Story Yet About The UK's Online Porn Filters forbes.com #

Music publishers claim to own "Silent Night" & ripoff indie Youtube singer boingboing.net #

Atheist Christmas carol: There's No Christmas in Hell boingboing.net #

How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates -- then went and played for them citeworld.com #

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 theguardian.com #

One Page Mania is a collection of only the best One Page Website designs from around the web onepagemania.com #

The 10 hottest web design trends of 2013 creativebloq.com #

Single page websites awwwards.com #

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished washingtonpost.com #

Why is Canada naming its warships after U.S. defeats? foreignpolicy.com #

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 vocativ.com #

The History and Future of Everything -- Time youtube.com #

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

Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies bloomberg.com #

Edward Snowden will deliver Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message independent.co.uk #

Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot released from Russian prison in Sochi Olympics amnesty buzzfeed.com #

Excerpted from God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis slate.com #

France’s Graffiti Général Gets Virtual Afterlife on Eve of Its Destruction motherboard.vice.com #

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

Four new breweries coming to the Ottawa area ottawacitizen.com #

Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice theguardian.com #

Canadian spies lied to judge to obtain surveillance warrants, deliberately misinterpreted law and asked other countries' intelligence services to spy for them cbc.ca #

Alternative Nation MTV UK Toby Amies Final Show youtube.com #

The Man Whose Mind Exploded - Documentary Trailer youtube.com #

Not All Memories Are Lost: The Man Whose Mind Exploded Reviewed thequietus.com #

The debate is over: Snowden is a whistle-blower salon.com #

Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi PAs cleared of fraud bbc.co.uk #

Having a Servant Is Not a Right nytimes.com #

Al Goldstein: The Anti-Hef randomhouse.ca #

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Selling Anything techcrunch.com #

UK's anti-porn firewall is now mostly erected techdirt.com #

What Makes Our Solar System Stand Out - Periodic table of exoplanets united-academics.org #

BitTorrent Is Building An NSA-Proof Chat Product businessinsider.com #

Turn your earbuds into custom fits with Sugru boingboing.net #

Walk across New Hampshire with Larry Lessig and friends to reform campaign finance and fight corruption boingboing.net #

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 eff.org #

Solar powered fire-starter - no moving parts, no flint, no fuels, no gases, and no batteries boingboing.net #

Topless Jihadis: Inside the World's Most Radical Feminist Movement theatlantic.com #

What Porn Stars Do When The Porn Industry Shuts Down forbes.com #

Canada lifts all restrictions on prostitution aljazeera.com #

Supreme Court strikes down Canada's prostitution laws cbc.ca #

Did The CIA Propagate Rock 'n' Roll? theawl.com #

The Year in Pop As Told By the Artists of Search-Engine Optimization motherboard.vice.com #

The Camels Were 'Impossible': Peter O'Toole Remembers 'Arabia' npr.org #

Judge Questions Legality of N.S.A. Phone Records nytimes.com #

The Mission To Decentralize The Internet newyorker.com #

Water seems to flow freely on Mars nature.com #

Hello World for Dropbox scripting.com #

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 #

Lost Footage Of A 21-Year-Old Bob Dylan digg.com #

Hello World for Dropbox apps? scripting.com #

Did This Expert Just Figure Out How to Talk to Dolphins? huffingtonpost.com #

RSA Shorts - The Power of Empathy youtube.com #

The iPhone is a remix boingboing.net #

Burner wedding features fire-jetting unicorn statue that sneeze glitter and pisses lemonade boingboing.net #

S.F. tech companies' civic image at stake as backlash grows sfgate.com #

Crashing Other People's Cell Phone Conversations Makes For Hilarity At The Airport digg.com #

University College London (UCL) astronomers have detected noble gas molecules in space for the first time in the Crab Nebula astronomy.com #

Why it's time to ditch the word "cancer" newstatesman.com #

The Craft Beer Market Has Exploded, And Now Brewers Are Worried About A Collapse businessinsider.com #

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 #

People Blown Over In The Streets As Storm Ivar Hits Norway digg.com #

Man who faked sign language at Mandela memorial has faced murder, other charges washingtonpost.com #

Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data aclu.org #

Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis theguardian.com #

South Africa admits mistake over 'schizophrenic' Mandela signer reuters.com #

Atlanta's Party Animals Are Crazy About A New Spa That Claims To Cure Hangovers With An IV Drip businessinsider.com #

Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, And Conan Share A Lyft Car digg.com #

Real sign language interpreter translates fake one boingboing.net #

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier theguardian.com #

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA - One language is written on top of the other washington.edu #

Pirate Bay founder is being held in solitary confinement without a warrant theinquirer.net #

NASA - Hi Juno: Juno Spacecraft Listens for a Greeting from Earth youtube.com #

The Work of Zina Nicole Lahr vimeo.com #

Pope Francis is Time's Person of the Year 2013 poy.time.com #

Mandela ceremony interpreter deemed a 'fake' news.yahoo.com #

No Internet Week: Five internet addicts step away from their screens for a week in this short documentary digg.com #

NASA Curiosity rover discovers evidence of freshwater Mars lake washingtonpost.com #

websocketd - Turn any application that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a web sockets server github.com #

Mountain Goats Miraculously Escape Avalanche digg.com #

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

FreeBSD won't use Intel & Via's hardware random number generators, believes NSA has compromised them boingboing.net #

Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013 theguardian.com #

60fps scrolling using pointer-events: none thecssninja.com #

Reform Global Government Surveillance reformgovernmentsurveillance.com #

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 #

French government cert authority issuing unauthorised certificates for Google domains googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ru #

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

Banksy piece auctioned for $457,000 qz.com #

FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light gizmodo.com #

Shameful Profiling of the Mentally Ill - Canadians are being turned away at the US border because of depression - Governments might be exchanging medical records nytimes.com #

Taylor University has a tradition called the Silent Night where the entire crowd remains dead silent until the tenth point is scored digg.com #

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

Rethread a Drawstring with a Straw lifehacker.com #

Turn Beer Bottles into Attractive, Cheap Glasses lifehacker.com #

Porn Industry Faces Another Shutdown After Performer Tests Positive For HIV buzzfeed.com #

Turn any bike into a hybrid with the Copenhagen Wheel - a motorized disk unit that attaches to the rear wheel superpedestrian.com #

Glitchy A/V art installation about "space-time compression" boingboing.net #

David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show' theguardian.com #

Jailed whistle-blowers to Edward Snowden: Don'€™t come home america.aljazeera.com #

Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet wired.com #

An Obituary for the Letter E wired.com #

Everything You Need to Know to Order Wine on a Date in One Chart thedatereport.com #

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

Domain Name Registrars Vs. Resellers domainregistration.com.au #

US Spy Satellite Logo Not At All Subtle: Octopus Enveloping The Earth techdirt.com #

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 vice.com #

Blouse - Into Black youtube.com #

Pixar vs. Disney Animation: John Lasseter's Tricky Tug-of-War hollywoodreporter.com #

Day of the Dead Mexican Holiday Inspires New Pixar Film mexicotoday.org #

Wrestling With Andy Kaufman themorningnews.org #

Idea Channel: Your Questions Answered! The making of the show and other stuff youtube.com #

Idea Channel: MORE of Your Questions Answered! The making of the show and other stuff youtube.com #

Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines the web theguardian.com #

Dockbox.io - Host websites in Dropbox using your domain dockbox.io #

Calepin.co - Publishing for writers who love Markdown and Dropbox calepin.co #

Scriptogr.am - Easily turn a Dropbox folder into a blog scriptogr.am #

Linux Voice Magazine - Fifty percent of profits will go straight back to FOSS and Linux communities, content to be made open source raspberrypi.org #

22 inspiring composer quotes classicfm.com #

As Hospital Prices Soar, a Single Stitch Tops $500 nytimes.com #

Brace.io - Host websites from your Dropbox brace.io #

Colorado town is poised to vote in the next week and a half on an ordinance that will allow drone hunting nationaljournal.com #

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

Sugru - Magnets are freaking awesome - Attach anything to anything with sugru + magnets! sugru.com #

Kali - Goddess of Time, Change, and Destruction en.wikipedia.org #

Claymation - not for children eyes youtube.com #

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III - Quantum mechanics feynmanlectures.caltech.edu #

Amazon Prime Air - Delivery to your home in 30 mins by quadcopter drone amazon.com #

Drowning in JavaScript - Analysis of top 20 sites usage of javascript dangoldin.com #

Ron Burgundy Co-Hosts Canadian Olympic Curling Trials digg.com #

Quantified Breakup: Public Display of Emotions quantifiedbreakup.tumblr.com #

Overloaded Vietnamese Motorbikes That Defy Logic sobadsogood.com #

Glenn Greenwald: Questions/responses for journalists linking to the Pando post utdocuments.blogspot.com.br #

Reggae singer Junior Murvin dies aged 64 independent.co.uk #

The Clash - Police & Thieves youtube.com #

Without Anyone Paying Attention, Canada Is About To Change Its Laws To Support ACTA techdirt.com #

Japan’s plan to supply all the world’s energy from a giant solar power plant on the moon qz.com #

Doc Searls: How to rescue radio from the all of radio body-snatch that is iTunes Radio blogs.law.harvard.edu #