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2014/05/30 #

  • 01:01:00 -05:00 Do animals like drugs and alcohol?# www.bbc.com

  • 01:07:00 -05:00 Mysterious announcement from Truecrypt declares the project insecure and dead# boingboing.net

  • 10:38:00 -05:00 How to Camp in Black Bear Country# bwca.cc

  • 17:33:00 -05:00 The Complete Quips of Mad Men’s Roger Sterling# www.vulture.com

2014/05/28 #

  • 04:54:00 -05:00 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

  • 10:43:00 -05:00 The World's First Wingsuit BASE Jumping Dog# digg.com

  • 10:44:00 -05:00 Skateboard that Can Go Down Stairs# digg.com

  • 10:44:00 -05:00 Here’s what happens when you introduce airport-style security to the world’s busiest subway# qz.com

  • 10:46:00 -05:00 Children of Men Official Trailer (A film I worked on)# www.youtube.com

  • 17:16:00 -05:00 New Google self driving car prototypes: smart cars without steering wheels and pedals# googleblog.blogspot.ca

2014/05/23 #

  • 00:30:00 -05:00 The Military Is Shutting Down HAARP - Its Weather-Controlling Death Beam# io9.com

  • 03:10:00 -05:00 China: Baby Falls Out Of Window, Man Makes Amazing Catch (weird video)# digg.com

  • 03:13:00 -05:00 Discovered two days ago that dealership where I bought my car had covered up the passenger airbag / baby seat alert light with a plastic disk ¯_(ツ)_/¯ #

  • 04:08:00 -05:00 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

  • 04:13:00 -05:00 Will Ferrell And His Red Hot Chili Peppers Doppelganger Have A Drum-Off / Calling Each Other Babies -Off# digg.com

  • 04:21:00 -05:00 Conan Tries To Review 'Watchdogs'# digg.com

  • 07:27:00 -05:00 Angry London cabbies attack Hailo taxi app office# www.bbc.com

  • 23:10:00 -05:00 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# www.nytimes.com

  • 23:25:00 -05:00 Guy Walks Across The Ceiling With Magnetic Shoes# digg.com

2014/05/22 #

  • 00:09:00 -05:00 Why So Many Rock Stars Die at 27, Explained by Science# www.policymic.com

  • 13:29:00 -05:00 ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ ¯_(ツ)/¯ #

  • 14:14:00 -05:00 Anderson Cooper Dismantles Talk Show Host's Homophobic Criticism Of Michael Sam# digg.com

  • 14:41:00 -05:00 Yet another study points to pesticides as cause of bee death disorder# boingboing.net

  • 15:35:00 -05:00 Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs - 2012 (Full Documentary)# www.youtube.com

2014/05/21 #

  • 00:04:00 -05:00 GoPro Is Turning into a Media Company, $100 Million IPO Filing Shows# www.theatlantic.com

  • 00:08:00 -05:00 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

  • 01:51:00 -05:00 Heard about on the radio this morning: The Whirling Dervishes of Istanbul# m.youtube.com

  • 01:52:00 -05:00 Prince Charles 'compared Russian actions to Nazis'# www.bbc.com

  • 01:53:00 -05:00 ¯_(ツ)_/¯ #

2014/05/20 #

  • 01:04:00 -05:00 To change false beliefs, appealing to a person’s sense of self may be more important than the facts# www.newyorker.com

  • 01:12:00 -05:00 The Netflix Panopticon: What Television Will Look Like in 2025, According to Netflix# www.wired.com

  • 07:57:00 -05:00 The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas# firstlook.org

  • 08:08:00 -05:00 This is what secret surveillance, suspicion based society does to most of humanity (the 1% enjoy endless holidays in the Bahamas)# digg.com

  • 08:19:00 -05:00 Twitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloud# recode.net

  • 14:25:00 -05:00 Sir Nicholas George Winton "The British Schindler" celebrates his 105th birthday today# en.wikipedia.org

2014/05/19 #

  • 02:10:00 -05:00 The FCC Thinks We're All Idiots (Very well written article about Net Neutrality)# gizmodo.com

  • 02:13:00 -05:00 A Grunt workflow for designing and testing HTML emails# github.com

  • 02:23:00 -05:00 Tens of thousands in Australian cities protest Abbott government's health, welfare and education cuts, Murdoch press runs with "The Ferals Are Revolting"# www.pedestrian.tv

  • 07:50:00 -05:00 Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA# www.theguardian.com

  • 07:58:00 -05:00 It appears that the one thing Star Trek: The Next Generation was missing was sausages# www.metafilter.com

  • 16:06:00 -05:00 Bowie's takedown of Hadfield's ISS "Space Oddity" highlights copyright's absurdity# boingboing.net

2014/05/17 #

  • 08:14:00 -05:00 This Visualization Of Sorting Algorithms Is As Fascinating As It Is Horrifying #todayirl #oppositeoffun# digg.com

2014/05/16 #

  • 00:21:00 -05:00 Newsweek conspiracy theory hit piece, laying the foundation to justify the necessity for a secret elite cabal to rule our crazy world# www.newsweek.com

  • 01:06:00 -05:00 Mozilla CAN change the industry: by adding DRM, they change it for the worse# boingboing.net

  • 01:09:00 -05:00 Aussie politician calls rival a "c*nt" in Parliament, then withdraws, gets away with it# boingboing.net

2014/05/15 #

  • 01:20:00 -05:00 Eight Terminal Utilities Every OS X Command Line User Should Know# www.mitchchn.me

  • 01:26:00 -05:00 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

  • 15:19:00 -05:00 Grandma's Not A Toaster!# vimeo.com

  • 15:23:00 -05:00 Liesure Cruise - Double Digit Love# vimeo.com

  • 15:29:00 -05:00 How Is Orphan Black An Illustration of the Simulacrum? How we might all be clones #usirl# www.youtube.com

  • 15:30:00 -05:00 Phantom Limb - In the aftermath of an accident a young couple learn to deal with phantom pains# vimeo.com

2014/05/13 #

  • 00:26:00 -05:00 Bletchley Park Trust erects "Berlin Wall" to cut off on-site computer history museum# boingboing.net

  • 00:42:00 -05:00 Human Rights Watch calls for an international ban on "killer robots"# m.hrw.org

  • 11:30:00 -05:00 Syncthing replaces Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync with something open, trustworthy and decentralized# syncthing.net

  • 11:31:00 -05:00 Girlband ADAM Gets Orgasms While Singing(Sybian)# www.youtube.com

  • 11:36:00 -05:00 Spurious Correlations finds the hidden, totally pointless connections between everything# www.theverge.com

  • 11:45:00 -05:00 Anti-corruption anti-PAC nearly at $1M mark, thanks to tech heroes# boingboing.net

  • 12:37:00 -05:00 Sexuality is a gigantic spectrum of endless possibilities# www.upworthy.com

2014/05/11 #

2014/05/10 #

  • 02:22:00 -05:00 I Write These Stupid Words: Weezer's Normcore Revolution# www.theawl.com

  • 07:52:00 -05:00 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

  • 16:21:00 -05:00 Ireland out of Eurovision: Kasey Smith and the Irish traditional group Can-Linn, failed to impress with their song Heartbeat# www.bbc.com

  • 22:58:00 -05:00 Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels (and affecting the DEA)# news.vice.com

  • 23:25:00 -05:00 Appeals Court Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Software And An API; Declares APIs Copyrightable# www.techdirt.com

2014/05/09 #

2014/05/08 #

  • 07:47:00 -05:00 Your Movie Sucks Reviews 'Nymphomaniac'# digg.com

  • 14:53:00 -05:00 Wonderful London 1924 & 2014# vimeo.com

  • 15:15:00 -05:00 It’s on: Google, Facebook, Amazon and more slam the FCC’s plan for Internet ‘fast lanes’# bgr.com

2014/05/07 #

  • 00:30:00 -05:00 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

  • 01:32:00 -05:00 A History Of Net Neutrality: Girl Uses Coloured Markers Really Quickly While Speaking At Regular Speed# digg.com

  • 04:22:00 -05:00 The Skate Scene In Ethiopia Looks Amazing# digg.com

  • 12:12:00 -05:00 Twitter shares plumb new lows as stock lock-up expires# www.reuters.com

2014/05/05 #

  • 01:29:00 -05:00 Lawrence Lessig is sending out a mayday, help him fix the american government# www.dailydot.com

  • 01:36:00 -05:00 What is this secret code hidden in so many films and TV shows?# sploid.gizmodo.com

  • 13:31:00 -05:00 Anthony Bourdain: Under The Volcano - We Love Everything Mexican, So Why Don't We Love Mexico?# anthonybourdain.tumblr.com

  • 13:47:00 -05:00 Cory Doctorow: How to Talk to Your Children About Mass Surveillance# www.locusmag.com

  • 13:48:00 -05:00 Kids, it seems, intuitively understand what it's like to be constantly monitored by unaccountable, self-appointed authority figures!# boingboing.net

2014/05/03 #

  • 02:37:00 -05:00 Why "connecting the dots" is the wrong way to think about stopping terrorism# boingboing.net

  • 02:48:00 -05:00 Bill Gates on track to own no Microsoft stock in four years# www.reuters.com

  • 03:14:00 -05:00 Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun - Albert Einstein# ffffound.com

  • 03:16:00 -05:00 35 sci-fi predictions that have come true# www.vox.com

  • 07:34:00 -05:00 Help EFF Test Privacy Badger, Our New Tool to Stop Creepy Online Tracking# www.eff.org

2014/05/02 #

  • 03:02:00 -05:00 JavaScript’s this: how it works, where it can trip you up# www.2ality.com

  • 03:11:00 -05:00 Standardized testing and schools as factories: Louis CK versus Common Core# boingboing.net

  • 03:42:00 -05:00 Big Brother Would Like to Warn You About Big Brother, Inc# www.thewire.com

  • 09:20:00 -05:00 HN Thread: The reality show: Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits (2013)# news.ycombinator.com

  • 09:23:00 -05:00 Watch A Landslide Swallow An Entire Street In 20 Seconds# digg.com

2014/05/01 #

  • 03:30:00 -05:00 GCHQ Neglected To Tell Its Overseers That The NSA Granted Widespread Access To PRISM Databases# www.techdirt.com

  • 07:16:00 -05:00 Bob Hoskins, known for 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' dies at 71# www.cnn.com

  • 07:17:00 -05:00 Ten conspiracies told as intriguing whodunit stories# boingboing.net

  • 07:17:00 -05:00 A Hamster Eating Tiny Burritos# digg.com

  • 07:17:00 -05:00 How Fox News Shoved Shepard Smith Back Into The Closet# gawker.com

  • 07:17:00 -05:00 What a Toilet Hoax Can Tell Us About the Future of Surveillance# www.theatlantic.com

  • 07:19:00 -05:00 NY Times Verbatim: What is a photocopier?# boingboing.net

  • 07:22:00 -05:00 Miss Cleo on her fake patois and getting ripped off by the psychic friends network# www.vice.com

  • 07:23:00 -05:00 Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns# www.bbc.com

  • 08:51:00 -05:00 A fight is brewing over control of the smart home and APIs are the weapon of choice# gigaom.com

  • 08:52:00 -05:00 Lynchburg emergency officials have confirmed that a train has gone off the tracks in downtown Lynchburg# www.wset.com

  • 09:21:00 -05:00 Every 27 seconds, Canadian telcos hand over subscriber data to cops (mostly without a warrant)# boingboing.net

  • 10:05:00 -05:00 Ukraine crisis: Meeting the little green mener Jean McConville murder# www.bbc.com

  • 10:24:00 -05:00 Jeremy Paxman to quit BBC Two's Newsnight# www.bbc.com

  • 10:29:00 -05:00 London Tube strike: Disruption continues as strike ends# www.bbc.com

  • 15:56:00 -05:00 Rob Ford ‘ready to take a break’ from campaign as new video allegedly shows him smoking crack# news.nationalpost.com

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