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Friday, December 12, 2014

Avoiding Surfing Mistakes With Martin Dunn: Intermediate Level surfscience.com #

Unstuck - groundbreaking iPad app that strategically leads users through times of creative blockage and decision-making struggles coolhunting.com #

Ten days and one perfect swell at Nias leaves quite the impression surfermag.com #

Are you acting like a Perplexed Planner #unstuck via @Unstuck unstuck.com #

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Is It Getting Harder to Grow a Successful Business Selling Info Products? tropicalmba.com #

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Escape from the matrix - The fear of missing out haunts our social networks and our real lives alike - But there is a way to break free aeon.co #

Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy vimeo.com #

Saturday, May 24, 2014

The Military Is Shutting Down HAARP - Its Weather-Controlling Death Beam io9.com #

China: Baby Falls Out Of Window, Man Makes Amazing Catch (weird video) digg.com #

This Drug Defendant Spoke Her Mind, Then A Judge Told Her She’d Stay In Jail Until She Retracted Her Statements To The Media thinkprogress.org #

Will Ferrell And His Red Hot Chili Peppers Doppelganger Have A Drum-Off / Calling Each Other Babies -Off digg.com #

Conan Tries To Review 'Watchdogs' digg.com #

Where the War on Pot Will Go to Die time.com #

Friday, May 23, 2014

Why So Many Rock Stars Die at 27, Explained by Science policymic.com #

Angry London cabbies attack Hailo taxi app office bbc.com #

Is It Better to Rent or Buy? Calculator that takes the most important costs associated with buying a house and computes the equivalent monthly rent nytimes.com #

Guy Walks Across The Ceiling With Magnetic Shoes digg.com #

Thursday, May 22, 2014

GoPro Is Turning into a Media Company, $100 Million IPO Filing Shows theatlantic.com #

Galactic positioning system - We can point to our home on a globe, and find Earth in a model of the solar system, but where are we in the Milky Way? aeon.co #

Heard about on the radio this morning: The Whirling Dervishes of Istanbul m.youtube.com #

Prince Charles 'compared Russian actions to Nazis' bbc.com #

Anderson Cooper Dismantles Talk Show Host's Homophobic Criticism Of Michael Sam digg.com #

Yet another study points to pesticides as cause of bee death disorder boingboing.net #

Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs - 2012 (Full Documentary) youtube.com #

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

To change false beliefs, appealing to a person’s sense of self may be more important than the facts newyorker.com #

The Netflix Panopticon: What Television Will Look Like in 2025, According to Netflix wired.com #

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The FCC Thinks We're All Idiots (Very well written article about Net Neutrality) gizmodo.com #

A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails github.com #

Tens of thousands in Australian cities protest Abbott government's health, welfare and education cuts, Murdoch press runs with "The Ferals Are Revolting" pedestrian.tv #

The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas firstlook.org #

This is what secret surveillance, suspicion based society does to most of humanity (the 1% enjoy endless holidays in the Bahamas) digg.com #

Twitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloud recode.net #

Sir Nicholas George Winton "The British Schindler" celebrates his 105th birthday today en.wikipedia.org #

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Newsweek conspiracy theory hit piece, laying the foundation to justify the necessity for a secret elite cabal to rule our crazy world newsweek.com #

Mozilla CAN change the industry: by adding DRM, they change it for the worse boingboing.net #

Aussie politician calls rival a "c*nt" in Parliament, then withdraws, gets away with it boingboing.net #

This Visualization Of Sorting Algorithms Is As Fascinating As It Is Horrifying #todayirl #oppositeoffun digg.com #

Friday, May 16, 2014

Eight Terminal Utilities Every OS X Command Line User Should Know mitchchn.me #

This Place - In the first release of This Place, we explore the Oregon Coast through a short film and series of interactive vignettes vimeo.com #

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Syncthing replaces Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync with something open, trustworthy and decentralized syncthing.net #

Girlband ADAM Gets Orgasms While Singing(Sybian) youtube.com #

Spurious Correlations finds the hidden, totally pointless connections between everything theverge.com #

Anti-corruption anti-PAC nearly at $1M mark, thanks to tech heroes boingboing.net #

Sexuality is a gigantic spectrum of endless possibilities upworthy.com #

Sunday, May 11, 2014

I Write These Stupid Words: Weezer's Normcore Revolution theawl.com #

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy destruction of earth youtube.com #

Austria wins Eurovision Song Contest bbc.com #

RadioLab: 60 Words - We examine how just 60 words of legal language have blurred the line between war and peace radiolab.org #

Saturday, May 10, 2014

The Day Our Daughter Got Hit - my wife and I were living our worst nightmare, it only grew darker when we became the prime suspects narrative.ly #

Ireland out of Eurovision: Kasey Smith and the Irish traditional group Can-Linn, failed to impress with their song Heartbeat bbc.com #

Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels (and affecting the DEA) news.vice.com #

Appeals Court Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Software And An API; Declares APIs Copyrightable techdirt.com #

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Boing Boing celebrates 25 years with a homepage redesign with a refocus on zine-style journalism, art, and the abject nonsense in our souls boingboing.net #

A History Of Net Neutrality: Girl Uses Coloured Markers Really Quickly While Speaking At Regular Speed digg.com #

The Skate Scene In Ethiopia Looks Amazing digg.com #

Your Movie Sucks Reviews 'Nymphomaniac' digg.com #

It’s on: Google, Facebook, Amazon and more slam the FCC’s plan for Internet ‘fast lanes’ bgr.com #

Monday, May 5, 2014

You don't always know what you're saying nature.com #

Cory Doctorow: How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance locusmag.com #

Kids, it seems, intuitively understand what it's like to be constantly monitored by unaccountable, self-appointed authority figures! boingboing.net #

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Why "connecting the dots" is the wrong way to think about stopping terrorism boingboing.net #

Bill Gates on track to own no Microsoft stock in four years reuters.com #

Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun - Albert Einstein ffffound.com #

35 sci-fi predictions that have come true vox.com #

John C. Welchman talks about artist Mike Kelley youtube.com #

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski: THE RULES OF THE NEW ARISTOCRACY facebook.com #

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Bob Hoskins, known for 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' dies at 71 cnn.com #

How Fox News Shoved Shepard Smith Back Into The Closet gawker.com #

What a Toilet Hoax Can Tell Us About the Future of Surveillance theatlantic.com #

Miss Cleo on her fake patois and getting ripped off by the psychic friends network vice.com #

Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns bbc.com #

A fight is brewing over control of the smart home and APIs are the weapon of choice gigaom.com #

Lynchburg emergency officials have confirmed that a train has gone off the tracks in downtown Lynchburg wset.com #

Every 27 seconds, Canadian telcos hand over subscriber data to cops (mostly without a warrant) boingboing.net #

Ukraine crisis: Meeting the little green mener Jean McConville murder bbc.com #

Jeremy Paxman to quit BBC Two's Newsnight bbc.com #

London Tube strike: Disruption continues as strike ends bbc.com #

Rob Ford ‘ready to take a break’ from campaign as new video allegedly shows him smoking crack news.nationalpost.com #

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Gutting Net Neutrality also guts innovation, fairness and democracy boingboing.net #

Internet service providers charging for premium access hold us all to ransom theguardian.com #

Silicon Valley’s Coddled Caste System Has Been Exposed nymag.com #

Living with lag - an oculus rift experiment #netneutrality digg.com #

Forget 140 characters: Here’s How to Go to Jail for 10 Months for One ‘k’. medium.com #

Sunday, April 27, 2014

It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment wired.com #

If You're A Kid, You're Going To Want This Awesome Toy Dinosaur digg.com #

Fishhooks - A documentary short about taxidermy artist Becca Barnet vimeo.com #

Shugo Tokumaru / Poker (Official Music Video) vimeo.com #

Friday, April 25, 2014

This Man Is A Machine At Cutting Watermelons digg.com #

Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize wired.com #

A suit brought by four Muslim-American men with no criminal records asserts that the FBI put them on the no-fly list in order to pressure them to inform on their communities boingboing.net #

Thursday, April 24, 2014

OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of “LibreSSL” fork arstechnica.com #

The New York police department is having a rough day on twitter onthemedia.org #

Obama official responsible for copyright chapters of TPP & ACTA gets a job at MPAA; his replacement is another copyright lobbyist boingboing.net #

'Literally' figuratively destroyed by program to remove the word's misuse theguardian.com #

Wall Dogs of NYC- The Persian Version vimeo.com #

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

CEO Of “Russian Facebook” Says He Was Fired And That The Social Network Is Now In The Hands Of Putin Allies buzzfeed.com #

East London from the air - This mesmeric video takes you on a journey along and above the streets of east London #gooddrones youtube.com #

A Beginner’s Guide To South London’s Cultural Gems londonist.com #

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Do You Walk Enough?ks.markjgsmith.com
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Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City #baddrones theatlantic.com #

Pinnytown - The New Balance Numeric team takes a short trip to Boston and New York vimeo.com #

Foureyes - A 10-year-old boy is thrust into the tumultuous world of puberty when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses vimeo.com #

Thursday, April 17, 2014

CASTLES IN THE AIR - The gorgeous existential funk of “Adventure Time.” newyorker.com #

The 57 Best Conspiracy Theories I Heard At New Jersey’s 55th Annual UFO Conference buzzfeed.com #

The Director Of 'The Matrix' Came Out As Transgender For One Reason And One Reason Only upworthy.com #

Resentment at techies might not be fair, but it's the future boingboing.net #

The Coolest Spaceships Ever Made, Compared by Size wired.com #

Monday, April 14, 2014

London Marathon 2014: In pictures bbc.com #

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God youtube.com #

Girl Ages From 0 To 14-Years-Old In 4 Minutes digg.com #

Sunday, April 13, 2014

My Adult Circumcision - How I made the cut for my new religion newrepublic.com #

LA Sheriffs launch crowdsourced crowd control: LEEDIR, a surveillance app that uses your photos and videos boingboing.net #

In Norwegian, Våryr means “spring dizzy”; the word is used to describe what people experience when, after the long, dark winter, the days begin to lengthen newyorker.com #

In pictures: Royal tour of New Zealand bbc.com #

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO techcrunch.com #

Drop Dropbox - Protesting Condoleezza Rice joining the Dropbox Board of Directors drop-dropbox.com #

Flashing your headlights to tip off other drivers to cops now officially free speech in Oregon boingboing.net #

Spanish parliament rejects Catalan independence vote bbc.com #

Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from dealing with grief and loss vimeo.com #

The Long Game Part 2: the missing chaptere "Stunts" (2014) vimeo.com #

"Isolated" - Sau Poler m Carlos Lascanote Look at American Folk Artist Leonard Knight vimeo.com #

Morning Ritual - A monster wakes to a familiar sound and begins his morning ritual vimeo.com #

Tokyo Reverse - Extractsy Daniel Savage vimeo.com #

The Common Room Animation Project is a collaboration between 13 animators, based on Talia Randall's spoken-word poem 'Common Room' vimeo.com #

Friday, April 11, 2014

School Stabbing Suspect Was 'Nice Young Boy,' Attorney Says npr.org #

Victoria Siemer Transforms The Human Experience Into Computerized Error Messages beautifuldecay.com #

American Jihadist Who Fought in Syria Dies of an Overdose in Arizona? thedailybeast.com #

For one day, Google will let anyone in the US buy Glass - Apr 15 theverge.com #

Owner of John Lennon's tooth would like to clone the musician boingboing.net #

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Peaches Geldof post-mortem 'inconclusive' bbc.com #

The Heartbleed Bug - Isn't it amazing that the domain was still available heartbleed.com #

Ended up answering my own question: Node.js module unit testing - stubbing asynchronous file system calls with sinon.js stackoverflow.com #

The True Story of Acid House: Britain's Last Youth Culture Revolution amazon.com #

I just finished reading the entire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. Wow. reddit.com #

Guy went to see a football match for the first time, instantly famous. reddit.com #

Bacterial 'FM radio' developed at UC San Diego phys.org #

Heartbleed - A story about Kings, Queens, Princesses, server-babies, DNA, dogs, monopolies, oligopolies, protection rackets and bleeding lorddoig.svbtle.com #

Damon Albarn x Richard Russell - Back and Forth youtube.com #

Tokyo YouTube Hanami Meetup 2014♥東京ユーチューバー花見オフ会2014年 youtube.com #

This Grandma Riding A Roller Coaster For The First Time Is Pure Joy digg.com #

Saturday, April 5, 2014

U.S. government agency covertly created ZunZuneo, a "Cuban Twitter" designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba bigstory.ap.org #

express-autoroute - Automatically load routes from a structured routes/ folder npmjs.org #

express-route-dispatcher - Route dispatcher for Express npmjs.org #

app-routes - Convention based routes with before action/filter for express.js npmjs.org #

Bush Unveils Paintings Of World Leaders today.com #

New Sentinel-1A Satellite Launches Aboard Soyuz Fregat youtube.com #

Pinball Stuck In Perfect Feedback Loop digg.com #

Geep: Rare 'goat-sheep' born on Irish farm bbc.com #

007 James Bond Die Another Day intro - Madonna youtube.com #

Sevilla - Three youngsters make a roadtrip that will change their lives forever vimeo.com #

First attempt to create a 360° spherical panorama video using 6 GoPro Cameras in 3D printed mount vimeo.com #

Friday, April 4, 2014

European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms gigaom.com #

Move aside, president of Uruguay: We have a new ‘poorest world leader’ washingtonpost.com #

It’s not what you know. It’s not who you know, either. It’s who knows what about you. nielsenhayden.com #

Novelty and friendship to mark Her Majesty’s historic visit with Pope Francis on Thursday royalcentral.co.uk #

Britpop at the BBC Season: 20 Years of Britpop bbc.co.uk #

BBC celebrates 20 years of Britpop with Champagne Supernova of programming bbc.co.uk #

Cabinet minister apologises for handling of expenses inquiry bbc.com #

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Bipolar disorder can rage through life like a hurricane. So why does the US healthcare system leave us to cope alone? aeon.co #

Suspicious Minds – Why No One Trusts People In Authority bbc.co.uk #

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

'Slomo,' Is An Unusual Documentary About A Very Unusual Man digg.com #

Pupil, 12, dies after wall collapses at Liberton High School bbc.com #

Taiwan: Watch the "Sunflower Movement" student occupation of congress boingboing.net #

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

'A Man Walks Into A Bar' Is Worth Watching Until The End digg.com #

NSA Blows Its Own Top Secret Program in Order to Propagandize firstlook.org #

How to make a tin foil hat in less than two minutes youtube.com #

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Ethopia: the first "off-the-shelf" surveillance state piracy with mere record-breaking income boingboing.net #

Audrey Louise Reynolds, A Fashionable Selby Film vimeo.com #

'One Man And His Dog' Is Our New Favorite Sci-Fi Short digg.com #

Frank Marshall shoots down "ridiculous" Bradley Cooper / Indiana Jones rumour flickeringmyth.com #

Medical First: 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted in Woman nbcnews.com #

Ukraine crisis: Waiting for Putin's next move bbc.com #

War Games - A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III (1983) youtube.com #

Sony Open: Rafael Nadal & Novak Djokovic into final after walkovers bbc.com #

Over Dinner - Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Armyopic drawings of castles on single grains of sand vimeo.com #

Friday, March 28, 2014

RIP Captain Jerry Roberts - Bletchley Park Codebreaker unbound.co.uk #

The 'Goat Simulator' Launch Trailer Is Everything You've Hoped For digg.com #

A Young Ian McKellan Explains Macbeth's 'Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow' digg.com #

Russell Crowe defends Noah movie from critics says critical opinions of the biblical epic are 'bordering on absolute stupidity' theguardian.com #

Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes talks '80s punk on Daily Show; wears homage to GWAR and Dave Brockie boingboing.net #

Ninja Turtles (2014) Trailer - Hurled like a dead childhood pet into the uncanny valley's nastiest toilet boingboing.net #

No complaints from British supermarket that installed ATM for ants boingboing.net #

Abraham game makers believe they are in a fight with Satan polygon.com #

40-Year-Old Deaf Woman Hears For The First Time digg.com #

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

What Is Your City Masturbating To? digg.com #

Pornhub Insights - Stats about porn habits around the world pornhub.com #

The Corporate Pr Industry's Sneaky War On Internet Activism vice.com #

Terrifying Footage Of A 61-Car Pileup On Minnesota's Highway 55 digg.com #

Newspaper challenged over "deceptive" photo of high school player taunting crowd boingboing.net #

No, Donald Rumsfeld Wasn’t Calling Obama a “Trained Ape” slate.com #

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Turkey blocks use of Twitter - PM: we won't allow the people to be devoured by YouTube, Facebook or others theguardian.com #

DozerJS - a base scaffold and structure to make creating Node web services simple fluidbyte.net #

Friday, March 21, 2014

Hell on earth - What happens to life sentences if our lifespan is radically extended? A philosopher talks about future punishment aeon.co #

The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists nytimes.com #

Putin is violating a rule that was designed to prevent World War Three qz.com #

Fallin' Floyd - animated short Albert 't Hooft and Paco Vink vimeo.com #

Lights Out - short film that is scary vimeo.com #

ReMoved - emotional story through the eyes of a young girl taken from her home and placed into foster care vimeo.com #

OK Computer is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead en.wikipedia.org #

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Vimeo: Introducing: collections - Watch themed groups of films made by outstanding creators view.email.vimeo.com #

Julia Gillard's epic anti-sexist Parliamentary speech set to music boingboing.net #

Kremlin: Crimea and Sevastopol are now part of Russia, not Ukraine cnn.com #

Spook Train - an extremely gory, foul-mouthed claymation film being produced in the United Kingdom boingboing.net #

Monday, March 17, 2014

NYPD's Freedom of Information manual can't be gotten through a freedom of information request as it's confidential information muckrock.com #

BUSK is a short, social issues and subcultural music documentary, following five musicians as they busk in the arteries of the NYC subway system vimeo.com #

Saturday, March 15, 2014

A Short Guide to the Internet’s Biggest Enemies eff.org #

Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology in the enterprise nearform.com #

Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites eff.org #

Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit - you play a border security guard bbc.com #

Michio Kaku Talks About Alien Brains digg.com #

Istanbul protesters take 'Ellen selfie' from the back of a police van independent.co.uk #

PBS Video Report - Nuclear crisis at Fukushima continues to unfold boingboing.net #

Friday, March 14, 2014

A Close Look at the NSA’s Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool wired.com #

Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation spent $1.5 Million of its $2.1 Million on expenses, with only $5,000 going to charity reddit.com #

I'm Terry Gilliam. I don't care what you ask me. reddit.com #

It's good to see that there is still respect in the world reddit.com #

ELI5: Why are ice hockey players allowed to beat the shit out of each other?he Air reddit.com #

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Beerviz - Tell us your preferred beer style, and find similar beers to try out seekshreyas.com #

The Duke university student that was outed as a porn star reveals her name and speaks of the bullying she's experienced xojane.com #

Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping arstechnica.com #

US activist-journalist faces 100 years in prison for posting hyperlink to site containing hacked material in chat room theguardian.com #

Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (and that’s how it’s supposed to be) j2kun.svbtle.com #

A Directory of RSS Feeds of Popular Social Sites labnol.org #

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Project Orion - Inside the plan to propel spacecraft to other planets by riding the shockwaves of nuclear bombs medium.com #

Mayer\Leyva is performance artist Jillian Mayer and Lucas Leyva - Their collaborations include short films, art installations, music videos, experimental theater, and web projects mayerleyva.com #

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Here's Ellen's Mid-Oscars Selfie with All of the Stars thewire.com #

The 86th Oscars In Under 2 Minutes digg.com #

A primer on why Crimea has become a geopolitical flashpoint throughout history bbc.com #

Inpatient, outpatient and emergency hospital records of all English and Welsh patients uploaded to Google Bigquery, hosted in non-EU datacentres boingboing.net #

#PostModem by Mayer\Leyva - comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical - Are you sick of living in the old physical world? vimeo.com #

The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Nato must calm down and back off theguardian.com #

Monday, March 3, 2014

US Trade Rep can't figure out if Trans-Pacific Partnership will protect the environment boingboing.net #

Trustycon: how to redesign NSA surveillance to catch more criminals and spy on a lot fewer people boingboing.net #

Heart of Blandness: A Walking Tour of Silicon Valley gawker.com #

Metropolis II (The Movie) - Art exhibit that explores the need for driverless cars - "The idea that a car runs free is about to be over" vimeo.com #

Comparing driveless cars introduction to that of automobiles following horse buggies vastly underplays the magnitude and risks of the change vimeo.com #

Here's Why The German Language Sounds Harsh To Most People digg.com #

The Guardian is maintaining a running feed of new developments of the escalating problems in the Ukraine theguardian.com #

Ice Crystal Timelapse - Timelapse video of ice crystals melting, photographed using cross-polarized light vimeo.com #

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Elon Musk’s massive bet on batteries is riding on two big if’s qz.com #

What 18 Of The Biggest Technology And Media Companies Earn Per Employee buzzfeed.com #

We can’t trust anything, on the one hand, it feels like paranoia, on the other hand, it seems the paranoid people were not creative enough bits.blogs.nytimes.com #

Saturday, March 1, 2014

A message from Lawrence Lessig on confronting corruption in American political elections socallinuxexpo.org #

'Nothing Stops Detroit' is a short, splice-of-life film documenting Californian street artist Evan Rossell during a painting trip to Detroit City, Michigan in late June 2013 vimeo.com #

Shozo Kato - Way of the Sword - A master kendo sensei discusses the difference between the western and eastern notion of beauty vimeo.com #

Heart of Africa - abstract composite of my memories and experiences from a trip to Rwanda and Uganda vimeo.com #

Trail Therapy - Steve Fugate has walked across US seven times to raise awareness for depression and suicide and to inspire people he meets to "love life" vimeo.com #

After Trayvon - a group of young men gather and discussed Trayvon's death, Stop and Frisk, and daily life vimeo.com #

Team Spirit - Jesus, He's Alright (Ep 1) vimeo.com #

Thursday, February 27, 2014

In Napples the Camorra crime family is causing high cancer rates digg.com #

MPAA’s latest anti-piracy move accidentally, completely screws Hollywood studios and might help visual effects workers fight foreign subsidies pando.com #

LIFE AFTER PI - Short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios that explores the forces impacting the global VFX community and the Film Industry as a whole youtube.com #

A Crazy Oculus Rift Hack Lets Men and Women Swap Bodies wired.com #

Actor Seth Rogen gives his opening statement before a Senate hearing on Alzheimer's Research (C-SPAN) youtube.com #

Class On Creative Reading - William S. Burroughs youtube.com #

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Best-Sounding Brass Instrument Tech Makes No Sound At All: Yamaha’s Latest Silent Brass createdigitalmusic.com #

How Youtube's automated copyright system lets big music screw indie creators boingboing.net #

Experience Just How Big the Universe is, in One Mind-Blowing Interactive policymic.com #

Monday, February 24, 2014

Russian style modern gastro cuisine - A tribute to the home cooks of the Red Empire, who turned mass production, propaganda, and want into a cuisine foreignpolicy.com #

Before and After: Kiev on Instagram - 32 real photographs of how normal, everyday life changed in a matter of days esquire.com #

Tokyo 2013 - creative home made video about a trip to Tokyo vimeo.com #

Short Documentary about music video director David Wilson vimeo.com #

Elephante - Short film by Pablo Larcuen vimeo.com #

The Runners - A film by Matan Rochlitz & Ivo Gormley Dead vimeo.com #

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Searching for truth in Venezuela cnn.com #

Venezuela: 'After being promised paradise we are living in a nightmare.' boingboing.net #

25 Synonyms for 'Pussy Riot,' for news presenters who'd really rather not to say 'pussy' on-air boingboing.net #

Ukrainian president Yanukovuych flees Kiev as opposition seize the palace boingboing.net #

Pussy Riot use footage of cossack horsewhipping in new music video boingboing.net #

Russian Federation Anti-Gay Laws: An Analysis & Deconstruction dropbox.com #

Are we birthing our own psychic destruction? gigaom.com #

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society nymag.com #

Kiev Is Burning: Ukrainian Riot Police Are Storming Protest Camps digg.com #

Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago openculture.com #

How To Use Your Waffle Iron Like A F*cking Moron digg.com #

Could these creepy chest packs be North Korea's way of threatening radiological war? foreignpolicy.com #

Pussy Riot Detained for Hours in Sochi, Leave Station Singing nbcnews.com #

Listen to a Recording of a Song Written on a Man’s Butt in a 15-Century Hieronymus Bosch Painting openculture.com #

Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S. salon.com #

Comic book explains why the Transpacific Partnership serves no one but the ultra-rich boingboing.net #

Game theory: how 70,000 pokemon players sabotage themselves minimaxir.com #

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Actress Ellen Page Delivers Heartfelt Coming Out Speech digg.com #

UK to expand internet filters to include ‘extremist’ content techdirt.com #

One Billion Rising - Short film about violence against women and girls vimeo.com #

Return of the 808 - Roland goes on a quest for the illest beats in thirty years theverge.com #

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Snowboarding’s slopestyle event has been dominated recently by a 20-year-old from the flat plains of Saskatchewan, Canada, Mark McMorris #slicksite nytimes.com #

‘Downhill Racer’ and the Baffling Absentee Legacy of Winter Olympics Movies grantland.com #

Woody Allen v. Dylan Farrow - The Court of Public Opinion is now in session slate.com #

AHRobot is an air hockey robot player build using standard RepRap 3D printer parts digg.com #

Will The Spanish Monarchy Survive Its Royal Drama? forbes.com #

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The House I Live In (2012) - penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy imdb.com #

Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government ccc.de #

Grunt and RequireJS are out, it’s all about Gulp and Browserify 100percentjs.com #

Namibia's vintage guru on fashion, thrifting, and Namibian style boingboing.net #

Monday, February 3, 2014

Canada's weirdly recursive geography - the world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island boingboing.net #

Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City appartment of an apparent drug overdose late Sunday morning online.wsj.com #

Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Greatest Actor of His Generation - Hollywood's patron saint of schlubs, losers, and outcasts theatlantic.com #

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Voice Chat API  is a free, open-source, out-of-the-box audio conferencing app exposed via an API voicechatapi.com #

Appear.in - Video conversations with up to 8 people for free - No login – no installs appear.in #

Dear America, I Saw You Naked - And yes, we were laughing - Confessions of an ex-TSA agent politico.com #

Friday, January 17, 2014

In London, 'Guardians' Live in Empty Office Buildings - Many in Search of Lower Rent Line Up for Position online.wsj.com #

Is This Thing On? A look into why the Internet so rarely mobilizes around audio digg.com #

NATIVES - Written and Directed by Jeremy Hersh vimeo.com #

Codfish & Cyanide - un film di David Gesslbauer vimeo.com #

The Art of Fighting // Short Documentary vimeo.com #

Miami - The city they say where neon goes to die - Three friends and a camera try to capture the spirit of Art Basel away from the pomp and guestlists vimeo.com #

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? scientificamerican.com #

The Pot Primary - Why 2016 could spell the end of legal marijuana politico.com #

An Honest Beer Commercial - The real reason everyone drinks domestic American beers digg.com #

Casinos’ worrying knack for consumer manipulation - The spread of machine gambling offers a portent of other economic developments timharford.com #

Does Reality TV Affect Our View On Surveillance? youtube.com #

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

London to Brighton Train Journey: 1953 - 1983 - 2013 m.youtube.com #

When you sleep your brain is clearing out all the junk created while thinking during the day nytimes.com #

Student Loans In The U.S More Than China’s Total External Debt statspotting.com #

Taxi protest in Paris turns to guerrilla warfare as Uber car attacked on freeway rudebaguette.com #

Thailand crisis: Protesters launch Bangkok 'shutdown bbc.co.uk #

Out in the Open: An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent wired.com #

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Buffalo Sabres p.r. director Paul Wieland pulled some fantastic pranks in the 70s and 80s, including naming the Sabres "America's Team" and drafting an imaginary player sportsonearth.com #

You've Been Eating Chicken Wings All Wrong digg.com #

George Monbiot: At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything theguardian.com #

Bre Pettis's rapid prototyping talk, a tour-de-force presentation from 25C3 media.ccc.de #

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple's iPhone dailydot.com #

Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins by carefully chewing and passing them around independent.co.uk #

British Ex-Spy Launches Fund to Support Whistleblowers Like Snowden wired.com #

"The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and more newly uploaded B-movies at archive.org boingboing.net #

What if we are really in a “Matrix”-like simulation? pando.com #

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