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Do animals like drugs and alcohol? bbc.com #

Mysterious announcement from Truecrypt declares the project insecure and dead boingboing.net #

How to Camp in Black Bear Country bwca.cc #

How to Make Your Food Bear Safe when Camping wikihow.com #

Would You Pay $1,000 Once to Get Free Beer for Life? nationaljournal.com #

The Complete Quips of Mad Men’s Roger Sterling vulture.com #

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 #

The World's First Wingsuit BASE Jumping Dog digg.com #

Skateboard that Can Go Down Stairs digg.com #

Here’s what happens when you introduce airport-style security to the world’s busiest subway qz.com #

Children of Men Official Trailer (A film I worked on) youtube.com #

New Google self driving car prototypes: smart cars without steering wheels and pedals googleblog.blogspot.ca #

Banksy Sums Up His NYC Residency digg.com #

A Wingsuit Flight Over NYC digg.com #

Aug(De)Mented Reality youtube.com #

Fare Dodging Is an Organized Rebellion in Stockholm, and It’s Winning nytimes.com #

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

Mike Rowe “Life Advice” toprightnews.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 #

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 #

HN Thread: Is It Better to Rent or Buy? news.ycombinator.com #

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

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 #

The Life and Times of ¯_(ツ)_/¯ theawl.com #

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 #

Everything Is Broken medium.com #

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

Trucker 'crashes' 20 million bees escape all at once delawareonline.com #

Dan Aykroyd Talking About Aliens and UFO youtube.com #

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

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 #

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 #

GoPro Files For IPO businessinsider.com #

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

Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA theguardian.com #

It appears that the one thing Star Trek: The Next Generation was missing was sausages metafilter.com #

Google is Breaking the Internet jeremypalmer.com #

Bowie's takedown of Hadfield's ISS "Space Oddity" highlights copyright's absurdity boingboing.net #

James Chance & The Contortions - Contort Yourself youtube.com #

Theoretical Girls - You Got Me youtube.com #

James Chance & the Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself youtube.com #

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 #

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 #

Grandma's Not A Toaster! vimeo.com #

In Oman - 2014 vimeo.com #

Liesure Cruise - Double Digit Love vimeo.com #

How Is Orphan Black An Illustration of the Simulacrum? How we might all be clones #usirl youtube.com #

Phantom Limb - In the aftermath of an accident a young couple learn to deal with phantom pains vimeo.com #

Warnings Along F.C.C.’s Fast Lane nytimes.com #

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

Human Rights Watch calls for an international ban on "killer robots" m.hrw.org #

20 Surprising Facts about Masturbation to Brighten Your Day nerve.com #

Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack tbray.org #

Dumb in the Sun (Official Music Video) vimeo.com #

.@Twitter: Optimised For Abuse weekwoman.wordpress.com #

Show Us the Drone Memos nytimes.com #

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 #

Pizza oven my dad and I made reddit.com #

Defending the Open Internet nytimes.com #

Iggy Pop - The Complaints Department (Bad Fives) bbc.co.uk #

Mexican Wins Miss America youtube.com #

6-Minute Mom - An all-too-brief meeting between a woman and her absentee mother becomes emotional digg.com #

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

Nazi concentration camps 1945 youtube.com #

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

Stop...........carry on! youtube.com #

Austria wins Eurovision Song Contest bbc.com #

Ironies of Automation bainbrdg.demon.co.uk #

‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’ nybooks.com #

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

The Lives Of Others Trailer youtube.com #

Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again m.youtube.com #

Glastonbury 2014: Metallica to headline Pyramid Stage on Saturday independent.co.uk #

This is happening right now in front of the FCC goldenfrog.com #

At the Market, Very Late newsfromme.com #

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 #

World Bank asks is anyone actually reading their reports? washingtonpost.com #

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

SBR Crew Graffiti Bombing 2013 GoPro youtube.com #

Girls Like Us - Molly Perkins vimeo.com #

Inside Britain’s big, dumb halal pizza scandal washingtonpost.com #

NeoCities: We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth neocities.org #

A Rape in Cyberspace (1993) juliandibbell.com #

Indonesian woman who was gang raped by eight men now faces caning for adultery nydailynews.com #

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 #

Wonderful London 1924 & 2014 vimeo.com #

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

Twitter shares plumb new lows as stock lock-up expires reuters.com #

Lawrence Lessig is sending out a mayday, help him fix the american government dailydot.com #

What is this secret code hidden in so many films and TV shows? sploid.gizmodo.com #

EFF on the White House's Big Data report: what about privacy and surveillance? boingboing.net #

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

Anthony Bourdain: Under The Volcano - We Love Everything Mexican, So Why Don't We Love Mexico? anthonybourdain.tumblr.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 #

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

37 percent of adults cannot swim the length of a 25-yard pool well.blogs.nytimes.com #

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 #

Github monoculture nedbatchelder.com #

HN Thread: Programming Is a Dead End Job news.ycombinator.com #

Shuffle Your Food Storage youtube.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 #

JavaScript’s this: how it works, where it can trip you up 2ality.com #

Standardized testing and schools as factories: Louis CK versus Common Core boingboing.net #

Big Brother Would Like to Warn You About Big Brother, Inc thewire.com #

Help EFF Test Privacy Badger, Our New Tool to Stop Creepy Online Tracking eff.org #

$2k desktop milling machine boingboing.net #

GCHQ Neglected To Tell Its Overseers That The NSA Granted Widespread Access To PRISM Databases techdirt.com #

The Experience of Being Trolled youtube.com #

Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots youtube.com #

HN Thread: The reality show: Schizophrenics used to see demons and spirits (2013) news.ycombinator.com #

Watch A Landslide Swallow An Entire Street In 20 Seconds digg.com #

scotch & jazz @ dusk ffffound.com #

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

Ten conspiracies told as intriguing whodunit stories boingboing.net #

A Hamster Eating Tiny Burritos digg.com #

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

The bizarre online origins of 'me irl' dailydot.com #

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

NY Times Verbatim: What is a photocopier? boingboing.net #

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 #

Programming Sucks stilldrinking.org #

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 #

The strange triumph of “the little prince” newyorker.com #

13th Century Multiverse Theory Unearthed science.slashdot.org #

Maintaining Internet Freedom Isn't Easy (Video) yro.slashdot.org #

Has the whale exploded yet? hasthewhaleexplodedyet.com #

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

Which of these 5 apps can replace Softimage? creativebloq.com #

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 #

Your corporate internet nightmare starts now theverge.com #

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

Airplane Classic Scenes youtube.com #