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2014/03/31 #

  • 01:23:00 -05:00 Spyware increasingly a part of domestic violence# boingboing.net

  • 01:29:00 -05:00 'A Man Walks Into A Bar' Is Worth Watching Until The End# digg.com

  • 10:10:00 -05:00 Big data: are we making a big mistake?# www.ft.com

  • 10:26:00 -05:00 Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind ('74)# www.youtube.com

2014/03/30 #

  • 01:10:00 -05:00 Chinese censor prosecuted for taking bribes to censor remarks companies and government officials disliked# boingboing.net

  • 06:39:00 -05:00 Yahoo reportedly plans to steal YouTube stars for its own competing service# www.theverge.com

  • 17:51:00 -05:00 Big Data Kafka: US Government Watchlists and the secrecy whose justification is a secret# boingboing.net

2014/03/29 #

  • 04:35:00 -05:00 UK: Same-sex marriage now legal as first couples wed# www.bbc.com

  • 07:51:00 -05:00 'One Man And His Dog' Is Our New Favorite Sci-Fi Short# digg.com

  • 08:56:00 -05:00 Frank Marshall shoots down "ridiculous" Bradley Cooper / Indiana Jones rumour# www.flickeringmyth.com

  • 08:58:00 -05:00 Medical First: 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted in Woman# www.nbcnews.com

  • 09:06:00 -05:00 Ukraine crisis: Waiting for Putin's next move# www.bbc.com

  • 09:35:00 -05:00 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)# www.youtube.com

  • 11:50:00 -05:00 Sony Open: Rafael Nadal & Novak Djokovic into final after walkovers# www.bbc.com

  • 16:27:00 -05:00 Over Dinner - Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Armyopic drawings of castles on single grains of sand# vimeo.com

2014/03/28 #

  • 02:50:00 -05:00 Ethopia: the first "off-the-shelf" surveillance state piracy with mere record-breaking income# boingboing.net

  • 02:53:00 -05:00 Audrey Louise Reynolds, A Fashionable Selby Film# vimeo.com

  • 07:50:00 -05:00 Ninja Turtles (2014) Trailer - Hurled like a dead childhood pet into the uncanny valley's nastiest toilet# boingboing.net

  • 07:52:00 -05:00 No complaints from British supermarket that installed ATM for ants# boingboing.net

  • 12:04:00 -05:00 Abraham game makers believe they are in a fight with Satan# www.polygon.com

  • 17:40:00 -05:00 40-Year-Old Deaf Woman Hears For The First Time# digg.com

2014/03/27 #

  • 02:10:00 -05:00 BBC: Code Breakers Bletchley Parks lost Heroes# m.youtube.com

  • 02:10:00 -05:00 RIP Captain Jerry Roberts - Bletchley Park Codebreaker# unbound.co.uk

  • 03:04:00 -05:00 The 'Goat Simulator' Launch Trailer Is Everything You've Hoped For# digg.com

  • 03:18:00 -05:00 A Young Ian McKellan Explains Macbeth's 'Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow'# digg.com

  • 03:38:00 -05:00 Russell Crowe defends Noah movie from critics says critical opinions of the biblical epic are 'bordering on absolute stupidity'# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:52:00 -05:00 David Byrne: Breaking Up With The Internet# davidbyrne.com

  • 04:35:00 -05:00 Guy Makes A High Five Camera# digg.com

  • 04:45:00 -05:00 Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes talks '80s punk on Daily Show; wears homage to GWAR and Dave Brockie# boingboing.net

2014/03/26 #

  • 07:19:00 -05:00 Terrifying Footage Of A 61-Car Pileup On Minnesota's Highway 55# digg.com

  • 12:55:00 -05:00 Newspaper challenged over "deceptive" photo of high school player taunting crowd# boingboing.net

  • 12:56:00 -05:00 No, Donald Rumsfeld Wasn’t Calling Obama a “Trained Ape”# www.slate.com

2014/03/25 #

  • 01:18:00 -05:00 What Is Your City Masturbating To?# digg.com

  • 01:21:00 -05:00 Pornhub Insights - Stats about porn habits around the world# www.pornhub.com

  • 01:46:00 -05:00 The Corporate Pr Industry's Sneaky War On Internet Activism# www.vice.com

  • 11:16:00 -05:00 U.S. And Other Powers Kick Russia Out Of The G8# www.cnn.com

  • 11:30:00 -05:00 Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces# vimeo.com

2014/03/24 #

  • 01:50:00 -05:00 The Brutal Ageism of Tech Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete# www.newrepublic.com

  • 14:10:00 -05:00 Former President Jimmy Carter says he thinks the National Security Agency might be monitoring his emails# thehill.com

2014/03/21 #

  • 00:47:00 -05:00 Turkey blocks use of Twitter - PM: we won't allow the people to be devoured by YouTube, Facebook or others# www.theguardian.com

  • 00:58:00 -05:00 12 Web Application Frameworks for Node.js# codecondo.com

  • 04:12:00 -05:00 DozerJS - a base scaffold and structure to make creating Node web services simple# www.fluidbyte.net

  • 09:23:00 -05:00 Hell on earth - What happens to life sentences if our lifespan is radically extended? A philosopher talks about future punishment# aeon.co

  • 09:24:00 -05:00 The Scientific Quest to Prove Bisexuality Exists# www.nytimes.com

  • 09:25:00 -05:00 Putin is violating a rule that was designed to prevent World War Three# qz.com

  • 09:53:00 -05:00 Large Hadron Collider# xkcd.com

  • 13:54:00 -05:00 Fallin' Floyd - animated short Albert 't Hooft and Paco Vink# vimeo.com

  • 13:58:00 -05:00 Lights Out - short film that is scary# vimeo.com

  • 14:05:00 -05:00 ReMoved - emotional story through the eyes of a young girl taken from her home and placed into foster care# vimeo.com

  • 14:34:00 -05:00 OK Computer is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead# en.wikipedia.org

2014/03/20 #

  • 06:50:00 -05:00 Montenegro (2013) - Graduation film made at the Royal College of Art - Zinedine Zidane, why did you headbutt that man?# vimeo.com

  • 06:51:00 -05:00 Official music video for Emilie Nicolas - Grown Up# vimeo.com

2014/03/19 #

  • 09:26:00 -05:00 Documentary about anarchist punk band Crass (2006)# boingboing.net

  • 09:45:00 -05:00 Spook Train - an extremely gory, foul-mouthed claymation film being produced in the United Kingdom# boingboing.net

  • 09:58:00 -05:00 Calming picture of swimming pool and palm trees# ffffound.com

2014/03/18 #

2014/03/17 #

  • 07:34:00 -05:00 Bruce Sterling: The Ecuadorian Library# medium.com

  • 15:52:00 -05:00 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

2014/03/16 #

  • 01:21:00 -05:00 NYPD's Freedom of Information manual can't be gotten through a freedom of information request as it's confidential information# www.muckrock.com

  • 05:00:00 -05:00 Lady Gaga's SXSW Keynote: 'I'm Not Saying Vomit Will Change the World'# www.rollingstone.com

  • 09:15:00 -05:00 Ireland have beaten France 22-20 in Paris to claim the Six Nations title# www.rte.ie

  • 16:48:00 -05:00 Bruce Sterling's closing remarks from SXSW Interactive: who isn't in the room?# boingboing.net

2014/03/15 #

  • 04:47:00 -05:00 Top Overlooked Security Threats to Node.js Web Applications# speakerdeck.com

  • 04:47:00 -05:00 Shmock: An Express-Based HTTP Mocking Library for Node.js# tech.gilt.com

  • 13:43:00 -05:00 PBS Video Report - Nuclear crisis at Fukushima continues to unfold# boingboing.net

2014/03/14 #

  • 01:57:00 -05:00 A Short Guide to the Internet’s Biggest Enemies# www.eff.org

  • 02:07:00 -05:00 Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology in the enterprise# www.nearform.com

  • 02:12:00 -05:00 Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites# www.eff.org

  • 02:33:00 -05:00 Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit - you play a border security guard# www.bbc.com

  • 02:34:00 -05:00 HN Thread: Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit# news.ycombinator.com

  • 02:39:00 -05:00 Michio Kaku Talks About Alien Brains# digg.com

  • 03:47:00 -05:00 Istanbul protesters take 'Ellen selfie' from the back of a police van# www.independent.co.uk

  • 03:49:00 -05:00 Customer Service In Japan# digg.com

  • 06:19:00 -05:00 A Close Look at the NSA’s Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool# www.wired.com

  • 06:52:00 -05:00 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# www.reddit.com

  • 06:58:00 -05:00 I'm Terry Gilliam. I don't care what you ask me.# www.reddit.com

  • 06:59:00 -05:00 It's good to see that there is still respect in the world# www.reddit.com

  • 07:00:00 -05:00 ELI5: Why are ice hockey players allowed to beat the shit out of each other?he Air# www.reddit.com

  • 07:04:00 -05:00 It's okay to ignore the commercial motive# scripting.com

2014/03/12 #

  • 00:48:00 -05:00 The simple way to make airplane wine taste better# qz.com

  • 15:09:00 -05:00 An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web# www.theguardian.com

2014/03/09 #

  • 02:43:00 -05:00 Software Licenses in Plain English - Lookup popular software licenses summarized at-a-glance# tldrlegal.com

  • 02:54:00 -05:00 Italian police carry out largest ever 'pirate' domain crackdown# torrentfreak.com

  • 02:59:00 -05:00 Downfall Of A Pool Hustler# digg.com

  • 12:19:00 -05:00 We should remember that our first glimpse of a person is just one small piece of who they really are# www.nytimes.com

2014/03/07 #

  • 02:45:00 -05:00 The Lulu App is Ruining Dating - contributing to a toxic dating environment for both sexes# www.thedailybeast.com

  • 02:56:00 -05:00 I Opted My Kids Out of Standardized Tests - Then I learned a thing or two# www.slate.com

  • 08:33:00 -05:00 No One In True Detective Makes Any Damn Sense# digg.com

  • 09:01:00 -05:00 With a referendum on Scottish independence coming later this year, Britain may have to re-think the Union Jack# www.theatlantic.com

  • 13:18:00 -05:00 Virginia Legislature Unanimously Repeals Unconstitutional Oral Sex Ban# thinkprogress.org

  • 13:32:00 -05:00 Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Official Trailer# www.youtube.com

2014/03/05 #

  • 02:43:00 -05:00 Beerviz - Tell us your preferred beer style, and find similar beers to try out# seekshreyas.com

  • 03:08:00 -05:00 The Duke university student that was outed as a porn star reveals her name and speaks of the bullying she's experienced# www.xojane.com

  • 03:14:00 -05:00 Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping# arstechnica.com

  • 03:25:00 -05:00 US activist-journalist faces 100 years in prison for posting hyperlink to site containing hacked material in chat room# www.theguardian.com

  • 03:34:00 -05:00 Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (and that’s how it’s supposed to be)# j2kun.svbtle.com

  • 03:37:00 -05:00 A Directory of RSS Feeds of Popular Social Sites# www.labnol.org

2014/03/04 #

  • 02:07:00 -05:00 Project Orion - Inside the plan to propel spacecraft to other planets by riding the shockwaves of nuclear bombs# medium.com

  • 04:53:00 -05:00 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

  • 08:56:00 -05:00 Inpatient, outpatient and emergency hospital records of all English and Welsh patients uploaded to Google Bigquery, hosted in non-EU datacentres# boingboing.net

  • 16:12:00 -05:00 #PostModem by Mayer\Leyva - comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical - Are you sick of living in the old physical world?# vimeo.com

  • 17:45:00 -05:00 The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Nato must calm down and back off# www.theguardian.com

2014/03/03 #

  • 03:58:00 -05:00 Here's Ellen's Mid-Oscars Selfie with All of the Stars# www.thewire.com

  • 03:59:00 -05:00 The 86th Oscars In Under 2 Minutes# digg.com

  • 04:27:00 -05:00 A primer on why Crimea has become a geopolitical flashpoint throughout history# www.bbc.com

  • 11:44:00 -05:00 Ice Crystal Timelapse - Timelapse video of ice crystals melting, photographed using cross-polarized light# vimeo.com

2014/03/02 #

  • 01:33:00 -05:00 US Trade Rep can't figure out if Trans-Pacific Partnership will protect the environment# boingboing.net

  • 02:18:00 -05:00 Trustycon: how to redesign NSA surveillance to catch more criminals and spy on a lot fewer people# boingboing.net

  • 02:41:00 -05:00 Heart of Blandness: A Walking Tour of Silicon Valley# gawker.com

  • 03:38:00 -05:00 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

  • 03:45:00 -05:00 Comparing driveless cars introduction to that of automobiles following horse buggies vastly underplays the magnitude and risks of the change# vimeo.com

  • 03:54:00 -05:00 Here's Why The German Language Sounds Harsh To Most People# digg.com

  • 04:06:00 -05:00 The Guardian is maintaining a running feed of new developments of the escalating problems in the Ukraine# www.theguardian.com

2014/03/01 #

  • 02:57:00 -05:00 Elon Musk’s massive bet on batteries is riding on two big if’s# qz.com

  • 04:05:00 -05:00 What 18 Of The Biggest Technology And Media Companies Earn Per Employee# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 04:21:00 -05:00 At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy and Then They Get Awkward# bits.blogs.nytimes.com

  • 04:22:00 -05:00 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

  • 15:25:00 -05:00 '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

  • 15:27:00 -05:00 Shozo Kato - Way of the Sword - A master kendo sensei discusses the difference between the western and eastern notion of beauty# vimeo.com

  • 15:28:00 -05:00 Heart of Africa - abstract composite of my memories and experiences from a trip to Rwanda and Uganda# vimeo.com

  • 15:31:00 -05:00 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

  • 15:36:00 -05:00 After Trayvon - a group of young men gather and discussed Trayvon's death, Stop and Frisk, and daily life# vimeo.com

  • 15:38:00 -05:00 Team Spirit - Jesus, He's Alright (Ep 1)# vimeo.com

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