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2014/01/31 #

  • 02:11:00 -05:00 The Magic of Strace - strace is a command line tool which lets you trace the system calls and signals received by a given process and its children# chadfowler.com

  • 03:48:00 -05:00 David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance #wearesoscrewed# boingboing.net

2014/01/28 #

  • 01:11:00 -05:00 'Titushky' intimidate people in Ukraine, payed by the government to look like protestors but always hide their faces# www.slideshare.net

  • 01:12:00 -05:00 Ted Nelson: Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC# m.youtube.com

  • 01:19:00 -05:00 ISPs No Longer Have to Block The Pirate Bay, Dutch Court Rules# torrentfreak.com

  • 03:19:00 -05:00 Jeremy Deller and the story of "English Magic"# www.youtube.com

  • 03:25:00 -05:00 Acid Brass - Jeremy Deller - The Culture Show (2012)# www.youtube.com

  • 13:48:00 -05:00 David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve# www.ted.com

  • 13:50:00 -05:00 hackathon-starter - A boilerplate for Node.js web applications# github.com

  • 13:53:00 -05:00 Brian Eno & David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts# www.youtube.com

2014/01/27 #

  • 08:38:00 -05:00 Twitter is starting to feel calcified, slowed down by the weight of its own users, cumbersome, less exciting# bits.blogs.nytimes.com

  • 08:58:00 -05:00 What Is a Million “Likes” Worth? Numbers that really matter for artists on the internet# medium.com

2014/01/26 #

  • 03:13:00 -05:00 Boots on the ground pictures and report of the Revolution in Kiev, Ukraine# zyalt.livejournal.com

  • 03:22:00 -05:00 SoundCloud Raises $60 Million At A $700 Million Valuation# techcrunch.com

  • 06:51:00 -05:00 Portrait - A slow and surreal video|slideshow of nightmareish, grotesque and apparently static characters# vimeo.com

2014/01/17 #

  • 00:59:00 -05:00 Learning JavaScript Design Patterns - A book by Addy Osmani# addyosmani.com

  • 01:48:00 -05:00 Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee: Jay Leno# digg.com

  • 03:03:00 -05:00 Robert Redford on Oscar snub: “Hollywood is what it is. It’s a business”# www.salon.com

  • 03:13:00 -05:00 Meet The Artists '14: Jeremiah Zagar - Sundance Film Festival# www.youtube.com

  • 13:04:00 -05:00 Russ Chimes - Turn Me Out# vimeo.com

  • 13:05:00 -05:00 NATIVES - Written and Directed by Jeremy Hersh# vimeo.com

  • 13:08:00 -05:00 Codfish & Cyanide - un film di David Gesslbauer# vimeo.com

  • 13:10:00 -05:00 The Art of Fighting // Short Documentary# vimeo.com

  • 13:12:00 -05:00 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

2014/01/16 #

  • 01:34:00 -05:00 In London, 'Guardians' Live in Empty Office Buildings - Many in Search of Lower Rent Line Up for Position# online.wsj.com

  • 01:58:00 -05:00 Mak­ing remote work work: an adven­ture in time and space# blog.mongohq.com

  • 02:01:00 -05:00 Obama Is Announcing His NSA Reforms Tomorrow - Use This Scorecard To Judge Them# thedaywefightback.org

  • 03:03:00 -05:00 Is This Thing On? A look into why the Internet so rarely mobilizes around audio# digg.com

  • 11:18:00 -05:00 Does Reality TV Affect Our View On Surveillance?# www.youtube.com

2014/01/15 #

  • 01:05:00 -05:00 Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day?# www.scientificamerican.com

  • 01:28:00 -05:00 The Pot Primary - Why 2016 could spell the end of legal marijuana# www.politico.com

  • 02:09:00 -05:00 An Honest Beer Commercial - The real reason everyone drinks domestic American beers# digg.com

  • 03:07:00 -05:00 Casinos’ worrying knack for consumer manipulation - The spread of machine gambling offers a portent of other economic developments# timharford.com

  • 11:25:00 -05:00 Welcome To The Net Neutrality Nightmare Scenario# www.buzzfeed.com

2014/01/14 #

  • 01:48:00 -05:00 China cloning on an 'industrial scale' - cloning factories in Shenzhen# www.bbc.co.uk

  • 03:13:00 -05:00 Is quantum cryptography the key to thwarting the NSA?# www.dailydot.com

  • 07:15:00 -05:00 Thailand crisis: Protesters launch Bangkok 'shutdown# www.bbc.co.uk

  • 09:26:00 -05:00 Out in the Open: An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent# www.wired.com

2014/01/13 #

  • 01:50:00 -05:00 London to Brighton Train Journey: 1953 - 1983 - 2013# m.youtube.com

  • 02:04:00 -05:00 When you sleep your brain is clearing out all the junk created while thinking during the day# www.nytimes.com

  • 02:21:00 -05:00 Student Loans In The U.S More Than China’s Total External Debt# statspotting.com

  • 02:27:00 -05:00 Taxi protest in Paris turns to guerrilla warfare as Uber car attacked on freeway# www.rudebaguette.com

  • 11:33:00 -05:00 David Weinberger: What blogging was# hyperorg.com

2014/01/12 #

  • 02:47:00 -05:00 Total corruption: Organised crime infiltrated and compromised UK courts, police, HMRC, Crown Prosecution Service, prisons, and juries# boingboing.net

  • 03:02:00 -05:00 Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, hula hoops and GoPro cams# digg.com

  • 07:02:00 -05:00 Riding Through New York On A 'Circle Board'# digg.com

  • 07:13:00 -05:00 Crowdsourced, realtime date advice: networked hivemind Cyrano# boingboing.net

2014/01/10 #

  • 01:18:00 -05:00 Thin Woman With Tatoos Sets The Record For Fastest Time Eating An Entire 72 Oz. Steak# digg.com

  • 01:46:00 -05:00 Frameworkless JavaScript - Why Angular, Ember, or Backbone don't work for us# moot.it

2014/01/07 #

  • 01:32:00 -05:00 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# www.sportsonearth.com

  • 01:36:00 -05:00 You've Been Eating Chicken Wings All Wrong# digg.com

  • 01:48:00 -05:00 George Monbiot: At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:47:00 -05:00 Bre Pettis's rapid prototyping talk, a tour-de-force presentation from 25C3# media.ccc.de

  • 16:39:00 -05:00 Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014# www.well.com

2014/01/06 #

  • 03:22:00 -05:00 How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship For Good# torrentfreak.com

  • 03:49:00 -05:00 This Entire Video Is Unbelievably Rendered By A Computer# digg.com

  • 04:20:00 -05:00 Canada's former defense minister: aliens will give us tech if we quit wars# boingboing.net

  • 10:04:00 -05:00 How gender bias in games and geeky movies got there# boingboing.net

  • 12:10:00 -05:00 Internet Censors Came For TorrentFreak & Now I’m Really Mad# torrentfreak.com

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