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2017/10/31 #

  • 02:08:00 +07:00 What Can ‘The Onion’ Do for a World That Satirizes Itself?# melmagazine.com

  • 02:16:00 +07:00 Genius Dog Tricks Passerby Into Playing Fetch With Him# digg.com

  • 02:26:00 +07:00 Next Level Webpack Dashboard# medium.com

  • 02:48:00 +07:00 Catalonia's human tower power# www.bbc.com

  • 03:00:00 +07:00 Surfing beneath the northern lights# www.bbc.com

  • 04:24:00 +07:00 "How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"# www.wnyc.org

  • 05:26:00 +07:00 Learn how to build a PWA in 5 minutes# medium.com

  • 05:38:00 +07:00 Kazakhstan to Qazaqstan - Why would a country switch its alphabet?# www.bbc.com

  • 06:01:00 +07:00 'Dolphin' spotted in the River Thames near Putney Bridge# www.bbc.com

  • 06:55:00 +07:00 Syrian refugee artist - How coming to UK changed my life# www.bbc.com

  • 08:31:00 +07:00 Captain is a modern automated app deployment & web server manager# github.com

  • 17:05:00 +07:00 Solidarity is an environment checker for project dependencies across multiple machines# infinitered.github.io

2017/10/30 #

  • 00:11:00 +07:00 Superheroes a 'cultural catastrophe', says comics guru Alan Moore# www.theguardian.com

  • 02:55:00 +07:00 NOTHING TO HIDE documentaire (français, film complet HD)# www.youtube.com

  • 03:59:00 +07:00 WordPress + PWAs = 💖 (Chrome Dev Summit 2017)# www.youtube.com

  • 05:05:00 +07:00 What Being Chicano in America Means (When You Don’t Speak Spanish)# extranewsfeed.com

  • 10:55:00 +07:00 Snowboarder Casually Enjoys An Upside Down Morning Brew# digg.com

  • 12:36:00 +07:00 An Insane First-Person Mountain Biking Video That Will Make You Say 'Holy Shit'# digg.com

  • 15:07:00 +07:00 Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs# www.cam.ac.uk

2017/10/29 #

2017/10/28 #

  • 23:23:00 +07:00 Catalonia Declares Independence, Madrid Immediately Suspends Its Government# digg.com

  • 23:31:00 +07:00 Halloween at the Whitehouse# digg.com

  • 23:44:00 +07:00 Why There's No Way The Moon Landing Is A Hoax# digg.com

2017/10/27 #

  • 00:34:00 +07:00 Trump - Opioid 'national shame' a public health emergency# www.bbc.com

  • 00:39:00 +07:00 Catalan crisis - Regional MPs debate Spain takeover bid# www.bbc.com

  • 00:44:00 +07:00 JFK assassination - Trump declassifies some documents# www.bbc.com

  • 00:47:00 +07:00 Pope's tough question for International Space Station crew# www.bbc.com

  • 01:29:00 +07:00 Twitter decides to ban advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today and Sputnik and will donate estimated $1.9M earnings since 2011 to misinfo research# www.techmeme.com

  • 01:51:00 +07:00 Radiolab Presents - More Perfect - American Pendulum I - Korematsu v. United States# www.radiolab.org

  • 01:59:00 +07:00 Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System# www.nasa.gov

  • 02:02:00 +07:00 Mapping in HTML - a proposal for a new element# shkspr.mobi

  • 02:12:00 +07:00 Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness (Official Video)# www.youtube.com

  • 02:30:00 +07:00 Selma Blair - James Toback threatened to kill me after sexual harassment# www.theguardian.com

  • 02:45:00 +07:00 Whois? No, Whowas: Incoming Euro privacy rules torpedo domain registration system# www.theregister.co.uk

  • 02:53:00 +07:00 Piccadilly Circus lights switched back on after renovations# www.bbc.com

  • 03:11:00 +07:00 The Register - we are already through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole at this point, so let's see what else Scoble has for us# www.theregister.co.uk

  • 03:34:00 +07:00 Next German government could revive plan to tackle botnets# www.reuters.com

  • 03:35:00 +07:00 Australia deputy PM disqualified from office# www.bbc.com

  • 03:41:00 +07:00 A Halloween guide to being scary in six easy steps# www.bbc.com

  • 03:46:00 +07:00 Young people 'not receiving mental health care they need'# www.bbc.com

  • 03:54:00 +07:00 Tiny RoboBee flies, swims, and launches itself out of water back into the air# boingboing.net

  • 03:56:00 +07:00 Vintage news blooper of anchor hysterically laughing about a person's tumor removal# boingboing.net

  • 04:11:00 +07:00 Watch a real rocket scientist figure out (and beat) carnival scams# techcrunch.com

  • 04:19:00 +07:00 Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them# www.nytimes.com

  • 04:30:00 +07:00 Hollywood sex scandal predators go unnamed and unashamed in this week’s tabloids# boingboing.net

  • 05:26:00 +07:00 San Francisco just took a huge step toward internet utopia# www.wired.com

  • 05:30:00 +07:00 London Runs Out Of Pithy Three-Word Names For Bars# londonist.com

  • 05:40:00 +07:00 Statue Of Eros - Does Anyone Know Who It Really Is?# londonist.com

  • 05:45:00 +07:00 Bill O’Reilly points finger at “God” after accusations of sexual harassment# boingboing.net

  • 05:59:00 +07:00 James Comey confirms he is Reinhold Niebuhr on Twitter# techcrunch.com

  • 06:16:00 +07:00 Authentication now comes with a wave of your hand# techcrunch.com

  • 06:22:00 +07:00 The Tube Map As You've Never Seen It Before# londonist.com

  • 06:46:00 +07:00 18 pessimistic opinions on the next 10 years of fake news (and 5 optimistic ones)# techcrunch.com

  • 10:51:00 +07:00 Quest to depict CG sperm leads to real biological advances# techcrunch.com

  • 11:02:00 +07:00 Brexit - EU bank may not fully repay UK until 2054# www.bbc.com

  • 11:10:00 +07:00 Corey Feldman launches campaign to expose Hollywood paedophilia# www.theguardian.com

  • 11:17:00 +07:00 "It wasn’t just sexual abuse. Everyone got abused. It didn’t really matter how high up you were, you got the same treatment"# www.theguardian.com

  • 11:23:00 +07:00 George Clooney calls out 'the other people' involved in Weinstein scandal# www.theguardian.com

  • 11:44:00 +07:00 Aggregate pipeline groups by day but projects a null date# stackoverflow.com

2017/10/25 #

  • 02:55:00 +07:00 NBA Rookie Throws A Smooth Alley-Oop Off The Backboard... To Himself# digg.com

  • 02:57:00 +07:00 Basketball Player Mistakenly Chucks Up Full Court Shot With 30 Seconds Left, Nails It Anyway# digg.com

  • 03:08:00 +07:00 The Comic Sans Index - What Kind of Fonts Do Americans Use?# priceonomics.com

  • 03:10:00 +07:00 Mongoose findOne query returning old data, is there some caching happening?# stackoverflow.com

2017/10/23 #

  • 04:04:00 +07:00 A newly discovered moon tunnel could be the perfect place for a colony, scientists say# www.washingtonpost.com

  • 04:22:00 +07:00 Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps# steveperkins.com

  • 04:52:00 +07:00 jQuery and The JOY of Class Toggling# medium.com

  • 04:58:00 +07:00 The Path to Conquering Async JavaScript# medium.com

  • 09:00:00 +07:00 How Big a Problem is This? The Hidden Codes That Are Controlling Our Lives# www.jeffbullas.com

  • 09:04:00 +07:00 Roman Polanski Accused of Molesting 10-Year-Old Girl During Photo Shoot# www.vulture.com

2017/10/22 #

  • 04:25:00 +07:00 Bitcoin’s latest record high makes Satoshi Nakamoto the 247th richest person in the world# qz.com

  • 08:50:00 +07:00 Security news this week - Russian spies rush to exploit the latest flash zero day# www.wired.com

  • 19:42:00 +07:00 Catalonia independence - Spain pushes to remove leaders# www.bbc.com

2017/10/20 #

  • 03:25:00 +07:00 A Full Basketball Team Running In Perfect Sync Is Our New Favorite Glitch In The Matrix# digg.com

  • 04:08:00 +07:00 The oral history of John Titor, the man who traveled back in time to save the internet# www.thrillist.com

  • 04:11:00 +07:00 Little Kid Absolutely Nails BMX Tricks# digg.com

  • 04:37:00 +07:00 Web Share Target - proposed API allowing websites to receive share data (text, URLs, images)# www.chromestatus.com

  • 05:00:00 +07:00 The Web Share API - Example code# dev.to

2017/10/19 #

  • 01:59:00 +07:00 Blockchains explained visually# unwttng.com

  • 04:35:00 +07:00 People On The Internet Are Convinced That Melania Trump Has A Body Double At The White House# digg.com

  • 04:47:00 +07:00 Check Out This Quirky Short Film On The Loneliness Of Starting College# digg.com

2017/10/18 #

  • 02:44:00 +07:00 This Ball-Throwing And Catching Machine Is Pretty Incredible# digg.com

  • 08:43:00 +07:00 Photo of butchered rhino wins top award# www.bbc.com

  • 11:11:00 +07:00 Stephen Fry's lecture on a hopeful, cautious, excited vision of a better technological world# boingboing.net

  • 11:44:00 +07:00 Is London Just One Giant Game Of SimCity?# londonist.com

  • 11:54:00 +07:00 Jennifer Lawrence Had to Do a ‘Naked Line-up’ Early in Her Career# www.thecut.com

  • 11:54:00 +07:00 Björk Describes ‘Paralysing’ Sexual Harassment by Danish Director Following Lars Von Trier’s Denial# www.vulture.com

  • 11:55:00 +07:00 Reese Witherspoon Says She Was Assaulted by a Director at 16# www.thecut.com

  • 12:56:00 +07:00 universal-analytics - A node module for Google's Universal Analytics tracking via the Measurement Protocol# www.npmjs.com

  • 16:02:00 +07:00 Justin Trudeau Breaks Down While Delivering Statement On The Death Of Gord Downie# digg.com

2017/10/17 #

  • 08:49:00 +07:00 She claimed tall, blond aliens kidnapped her as a child - Now she’s running for Congress# www.washingtonpost.com

  • 10:35:00 +07:00 How Erik Spiekermann is reinventing printing - The typography legend explains his revolutionary 'post-digital printing' method# www.creativebloq.com

  • 12:43:00 +07:00 Duchess joins Paddington for a dance# www.bbc.com

2017/10/16 #

  • 02:11:00 +07:00 Micro Frontends - extending the microservice idea to frontend development# micro-frontends.org

  • 02:13:00 +07:00 HN: Micro Front ends – extending the microservice idea to front end development# news.ycombinator.com

  • 02:16:00 +07:00 Cognitive Biases in Programming# medium.com

  • 02:53:00 +07:00 The Fidget Spinner Has Finally Spun Its Way Into Space# digg.com

  • 03:11:00 +07:00 Theresa May to dine with EU chiefs amid Brexit 'deadlock'# www.bbc.com

  • 04:12:00 +07:00 CSS Grid Wired Magazine layout# codepen.io

  • 05:52:00 +07:00 Dot fun #2 - catch the dots# codepen.io

2017/10/13 #

  • 01:43:00 +07:00 This Is What The Mysterious 'Sonic Attacks' In Cuba Sounded Like# digg.com

  • 06:49:00 +07:00 Yoda Is Dead but Star Wars’ Dubious Lessons Live On# nautil.us

  • 06:56:00 +07:00 This Handheld Holograph Generator Is Kind Of Mind-Blowing# digg.com

  • 07:02:00 +07:00 Dubai Unveils A Fleet Of Police Hover Bikes With One Silly Intense Video# digg.com

  • 10:49:00 +07:00 The Fascinating Process That Goes Behind Restoring Jim Henson Puppets# digg.com

  • 10:59:00 +07:00 How to Setup a Company in Germany for English Speaking People# blog.datacircle.io

2017/10/11 #

  • 02:07:00 +07:00 Building A Mental Model For Precedence And The "new" Operator In JavaScript# www.bennadel.com

  • 02:32:00 +07:00 Async/await has better stack traces than Promises# mathiasbynens.be

  • 03:03:00 +07:00 This Photographer Shot The Same People On Their Way To Work Over 9 Years# www.fastcodesign.com

  • 05:45:00 +00:00 Owning Both A Parrot And An Amazon Alexa Seems Like A Very Bad Idea# digg.com

  • 06:42:00 +07:00 In algorithms news - Dow Jones said that Google was buying Apple, and the bots bought it# techcrunch.com

  • 08:59:00 +07:00 'There has never been a right to absolute privacy' – US deputy AG slams 'warrant-proof' crypto# www.theregister.co.uk

  • 17:35:00 +07:00 How to handle Errors in JS globally# medium.com

2017/10/08 #

2017/10/07 #

  • 00:59:00 +07:00 'Our minds can be hijacked' - the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia# www.theguardian.com

  • 02:36:00 +07:00 Programmatically detect Mixed Content blocking in Chrome# stackoverflow.com

  • 13:59:00 +07:00 Catalonia referendum - Thousands rally for Spanish unity# www.bbc.com

2017/10/06 #

  • 04:33:00 +07:00 Rupert Murdoch Is The Media’s Unlikely Hero In The War Against Facebook And Google# www.buzzfeed.com

  • 04:54:00 +07:00 Catalonia media reflects polarised Spanish society# www.bbc.com

  • 07:23:00 +07:00 Where is England's least gay region?# www.bbc.com

  • 08:10:00 +07:00 Band Uses Facebook Live To Make An Awesome Looping Music Video# digg.com

  • 12:13:00 +07:00 Holy Shit, These Scooter Flips Are Insane# digg.com

  • 12:18:00 +07:00 Interesting Blade Runner 2049 review# digg.com

  • 12:51:00 +07:00 Fearless Girl statue firm faced down in equal pay row# www.bbc.com

  • 12:56:00 +07:00 Plan for a very hard Brexit, German firms told# www.bbc.com

  • 13:05:00 +07:00 Tate Modern's Turbine Hall turns into a giant adult playground# www.bbc.com

2017/10/05 #

  • 01:33:00 +07:00 Google's New Live-Translating Earbuds# digg.com

  • 01:47:00 +07:00 Why We’ll Have Evidence of Aliens—If They Exist—By 2035# m.nautil.us

  • 06:37:00 +07:00 How Open Offices Became So Common (And So Crappy)# digg.com

  • 06:47:00 +07:00 Keybase launches encrypted git# keybase.io

  • 11:29:00 +07:00 This Guitarist Filmed Himself Playing From Inside His Instrument, And The View Is Lovely# digg.com

2017/10/04 #

  • 04:44:00 +07:00 ‘Don’t brand me’ - The Indian women saying no to forced tattoos# www.bbc.com

  • 05:22:00 +07:00 The Trump administration is exploring ways to replace Social Security numbers with a modern cryptographic identifier# www.bloomberg.com

  • 05:37:00 +07:00 Stop the Border Surveillance Bills# www.eff.org

  • 05:56:00 +07:00 The wired brain - How not to talk about an ai-powered future# ines.io

  • 15:17:00 +07:00 The Error in Baseball and the Moral Dimension to American Life# www.newyorker.com

2017/10/01 #

  • 06:29:00 +07:00 I asked Tinder for my data - It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets# www.theguardian.com

  • 07:15:00 +07:00 Photos, Video: 3D crosswalk in Ísafjörður helps slow down speeding motorists# icelandmag.visir.is

  • 08:03:00 +07:00 After the Tsunami, Japan’s Sea Creatures Crossed an Ocean# www.nytimes.com

  • 08:10:00 +07:00 OJ Simpson released on parole from Nevada jail# www.bbc.com

  • 09:37:00 +07:00 JSJ 280: Stackblitz - Running webpack and build tools in the browser# devchat.tv

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