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2014/02/27 #

  • 03:13:00 -05:00 GCHQ spied on millions of Yahoo video chats, harvested sexual images of chatters, compared itself to "Tom Cruise in Minority Report"# boingboing.net

  • 09:56:00 -05:00 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# www.youtube.com

  • 17:28:00 -05:00 A Crazy Oculus Rift Hack Lets Men and Women Swap Bodies# www.wired.com

  • 18:03:00 -05:00 Actor Seth Rogen gives his opening statement before a Senate hearing on Alzheimer's Research (C-SPAN)# www.youtube.com

  • 18:09:00 -05:00 Class On Creative Reading - William S. Burroughs# www.youtube.com

2014/02/26 #

  • 01:29:00 -05:00 In Napples the Camorra crime family is causing high cancer rates# digg.com

  • 02:10:00 -05:00 MPAA’s latest anti-piracy move accidentally, completely screws Hollywood studios and might help visual effects workers fight foreign subsidies# pando.com

  • 17:36:00 -05:00 Vape life: welcome to the weird world of e-cig evangelists# www.theverge.com

  • 17:44:00 -05:00 Nate Silver: The themes, motifs, and plots from 85 years of best-picture-nominated movies do tell a story# www.vanityfair.com

  • 18:33:00 -05:00 The story behind the "Too Cool To Do Drugs" pencil# boingboing.net

  • 18:35:00 -05:00 Silvan - The Great Magician# vimeo.com

  • 18:45:00 -05:00 Everywhere At Once - Rory Scovel - Art + Comedy# www.youtube.com

2014/02/24 #

  • 04:09:00 -05:00 The Best-Sounding Brass Instrument Tech Makes No Sound At All: Yamaha’s Latest Silent Brass# createdigitalmusic.com

  • 04:26:00 -05:00 How Youtube's automated copyright system lets big music screw indie creators# boingboing.net

  • 17:25:00 -05:00 Tokyo 2013 - creative home made video about a trip to Tokyo# vimeo.com

  • 17:26:00 -05:00 Short Documentary about music video director David Wilson# vimeo.com

  • 17:30:00 -05:00 Elephante - Short film by Pablo Larcuen# vimeo.com

  • 17:31:00 -05:00 The Runners - A film by Matan Rochlitz & Ivo Gormley Dead# vimeo.com

  • 17:37:00 -05:00 Jackpot: A Film By Adam Baran# vimeo.com

2014/02/23 #

  • 02:57:00 -05:00 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# www.foreignpolicy.com

  • 04:04:00 -05:00 Before and After: Kiev on Instagram - 32 real photographs of how normal, everyday life changed in a matter of days# www.esquire.com

  • 09:51:00 -05:00 Pussy Riot use footage of cossack horsewhipping in new music video# boingboing.net

  • 09:52:00 -05:00 Russian Federation Anti-Gay Laws: An Analysis & Deconstruction# www.dropbox.com

  • 11:38:00 -05:00 Are we birthing our own psychic destruction?# gigaom.com

2014/02/22 #

  • 03:42:00 -05:00 Searching for truth in Venezuela# www.cnn.com

  • 03:43:00 -05:00 Venezuela: 'After being promised paradise we are living in a nightmare.'# boingboing.net

  • 03:54:00 -05:00 Exploring Toronto's Exploding Queer Feminist Music Scene# bitchmagazine.org

  • 03:56:00 -05:00 25 Synonyms for 'Pussy Riot,' for news presenters who'd really rather not to say 'pussy' on-air# boingboing.net

  • 04:01:00 -05:00 Ukrainian president Yanukovuych flees Kiev as opposition seize the palace# boingboing.net

  • 17:52:00 -05:00 Alex Bag on Cash From Chaos / Unicorns & Rainbows <3# www.youtube.com

2014/02/20 #

  • 06:30:00 -05:00 Fax Your GP: quick opt-out from insane NHS plan to sell your medical recordseillance boxes# boingboing.net

  • 06:32:00 -05:00 The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist?# www.theverge.com

  • 06:45:00 -05:00 Where is Earth located in the galaxy?# m.phys.org

  • 07:06:00 -05:00 This Ingenious Touchscreen UI Should Be in Every Car# www.wired.com

2014/02/19 #

  • 05:00:00 -05:00 One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society# nymag.com

  • 08:35:00 -05:00 Kiev Is Burning: Ukrainian Riot Police Are Storming Protest Camps# digg.com

  • 08:35:00 -05:00 Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago# www.openculture.com

  • 08:37:00 -05:00 How To Use Your Waffle Iron Like A F*cking Moron# digg.com

  • 08:40:00 -05:00 Could these creepy chest packs be North Korea's way of threatening radiological war?# www.foreignpolicy.com

  • 08:40:00 -05:00 Pussy Riot Detained for Hours in Sochi, Leave Station Singing# www.nbcnews.com

  • 08:41:00 -05:00 Listen to a Recording of a Song Written on a Man’s Butt in a 15-Century Hieronymus Bosch Painting# www.openculture.com

  • 08:41:00 -05:00 Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S.# www.salon.com

  • 12:46:00 -05:00 Comic book explains why the Transpacific Partnership serves no one but the ultra-rich# boingboing.net

  • 14:56:00 -05:00 Game theory: how 70,000 pokemon players sabotage themselves# minimaxir.com

2014/02/16 #

  • 04:20:00 -05:00 Germany to step up its MAD program against western allies# www.spiegel.de

  • 04:31:00 -05:00 Collaboration Culture: 808 State classic on steel pan drums# www.bbc.co.uk

  • 07:37:00 -05:00 UK to expand internet filters to include ‘extremist’ content# www.techdirt.com

  • 09:55:00 -05:00 One Billion Rising - Short film about violence against women and girls# vimeo.com

  • 09:57:00 -05:00 Return of the 808 - Roland goes on a quest for the illest beats in thirty years# www.theverge.com

2014/02/14 #

  • 01:57:00 -05:00 Snowboarding Across New York City# digg.com

  • 02:14:00 -05:00 The most passive-aggressive council in Britain# boingboing.net

  • 02:26:00 -05:00 The History of Surveillance and the Black Community - FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King into suicide# www.eff.org

  • 11:10:00 -05:00 These Regular Women Watch As They're Photoshopped Into Cover Models# digg.com

  • 12:41:00 -05:00 Mathematical beauty activates same brain region as great art or music# www.ucl.ac.uk

2014/02/13 #

  • 06:04:00 -05:00 The ugly truth - We all know our culture puts a premium on good looks – does that mean that the ugly are oppressed?# aeon.co

2014/02/12 #

2014/02/11 #

  • 07:19:00 -05:00 Stuart Hall obituary - Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review# www.theguardian.com

2014/02/09 #

  • 04:43:00 -05:00 Specials frontman Terry Hall takes over the Sunday afternoon slot for the whole of February armed with a box of records carefully selected from his personal collection# www.bbc.co.uk

  • 11:27:00 -05:00 Employee Stock Options as Explained By an English Major# thebillfold.com

  • 11:45:00 -05:00 Woody Allen v. Dylan Farrow - The Court of Public Opinion is now in session# www.slate.com

  • 13:05:00 -05:00 AHRobot is an air hockey robot player build using standard RepRap 3D printer parts# digg.com

  • 15:36:00 -05:00 Will The Spanish Monarchy Survive Its Royal Drama?# www.forbes.com

2014/02/08 #

  • 02:34:00 -05:00 A Conspiracy To Commit Journalism: The Justice Dept's Dangerous New Argument Threatens Basic Reporting# pressfreedomfoundation.org

  • 02:54:00 -05:00 Snowboarding’s slopestyle event has been dominated recently by a 20-year-old from the flat plains of Saskatchewan, Canada, Mark McMorris #slicksite# www.nytimes.com

  • 03:17:00 -05:00 ‘Downhill Racer’ and the Baffling Absentee Legacy of Winter Olympics Movies# grantland.com

  • 08:46:00 -05:00 GoPro Files For IPO As The Action Camera Maker Prepares To Go Public# techcrunch.com

  • 15:50:00 -05:00 Woody Allen Speaks Out - Responds to Dylan Farrow accusations# www.nytimes.com

2014/02/07 #

  • 01:54:00 -05:00 5 Places Where People Slow Down Aging# nautil.us

  • 02:03:00 -05:00 Parents of Buddhist student sue "Bible Belt" Louisiana school over forced prayer, religious discrimination# boingboing.net

  • 05:16:00 -05:00 Humans of New York Part II# imgur.com

  • 11:37:00 -05:00 A protest is an expression of objection by words or by actions to particular events, policies, or situations# en.wikipedia.org

2014/02/06 #

  • 01:43:00 -05:00 ‘No No,’ a Documentary on MLB Pitcher Dock Ellis, Who Pitched a No-Hitter While Tripping on Acid# www.thedailybeast.com

  • 01:48:00 -05:00 The Unbearable Truth - Why we must tell lies# bookforum.com

  • 10:33:00 -05:00 Bruce Sterling on making the Internet safe for freedom and art# boingboing.net

2014/02/05 #

  • 05:07:00 -05:00 Facebook, censorship, algorithms and a system that embraces the guilty-before-being-proven-innocent ethos# pando.com

  • 11:02:00 -05:00 Black Flag Bassist Dave Klein Quits - Returning to punk band They Stay Dead# www.rollingstone.com

2014/02/03 #

  • 00:11:00 -05:00 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# www.imdb.com

  • 00:27:00 -05:00 Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government# www.ccc.de

  • 01:00:00 -05:00 Grunt and RequireJS are out, it’s all about Gulp and Browserify# www.100percentjs.com

  • 05:16:00 -05:00 Canada's weirdly recursive geography - the world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island# boingboing.net

  • 10:08:00 -05:00 Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City appartment of an apparent drug overdose late Sunday morning# online.wsj.com

  • 10:28:00 -05:00 Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Greatest Actor of His Generation - Hollywood's patron saint of schlubs, losers, and outcasts# www.theatlantic.com

2014/02/01 #

  • 02:38:00 -05:00 Voice Chat API  is a free, open-source, out-of-the-box audio conferencing app exposed via an API# voicechatapi.com

  • 02:39:00 -05:00 Appear.in - Video conversations with up to 8 people for free - No login – no installs# appear.in

  • 03:26:00 -05:00 Dear America, I Saw You Naked - And yes, we were laughing - Confessions of an ex-TSA agent# www.politico.com

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