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Saturday 30th November, 2013 #

  • Japan’s plan to supply all the world’s energy from a giant solar power plant on the moon
  • Facebook use 'can reveal if you're a psychopath' - posting about prostitutes, decapitation, pornography and butchers means your a psycho
  • Susannah Breslin freelance journalist
  • Backlift, The YC-Backed Back-End Service For Front-End Developers, Launches A/B Testing Service
  • Backlift enables designers and front-end developers to build and launch a website using Dropbox as the backend
  • Viral content is going to be a terrible business model
  • Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them

Friday 29th November, 2013 #

  • Remy Sharp - Optimising your devtools workflow by using watch expressions and live-update
  • Node.js at PayPal - our web applications are moving away from Java and onto JavaScript and node.js
  • The Sarah Palin Turkey Murder Video
  • Kinematics is a system for 4D printing - The system provides a way to turn any three-dimensional shape such as dresses into a flexible structure using 3D printing
  • How Node.js Has Revolutionised the MailOnline

Wednesday 27th November, 2013 #

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Wednesday 20th November, 2013 #

  • The Antique Phonograph Music Program Podcast
  • Bob Dylan - Live a rolling stone interactive video - pretty amazing watch several times
  • Obama’s Secret Attempt to Ban Cellphone Unlocking, While Claiming to Support It
  • How Three Decades of News Coverage Has Shaped Our View of the World - Interesting maps showing the distortion news coverage creates
  • Dynamic tangible display renders 3D data in physical form

Monday 18th November, 2013 #

  • Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published
  • U.S. Agencies to Say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits
  • Secure, Free, Incremental and Instant Backups for Linux
  • Two million Raspberry Pi sold in under a year
  • 5 Advanced Javascript and Web Debugging Techniques You Should Know About
  • You can't beat politics with technology, says Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde - urges people to dispel their political apathy to prevent the emergence of a new Stasi-style era of oppression

Sunday 17th November, 2013 #

  • Brewed free in catalonia - In Catalonia, booming local microbrews are just another way for people to express their independence
  • The First Time With... Matt chats to Kim Gordon, formerly bassist, vocalist and guitarist with Sonic Youth, about key first musical moments in her life (Radio 6)
  • Roll your own Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync on Amazon EC2
  • It happened to me: i'm living like i'm in the victorian era -- from corsets to washing bowls to writing in liquid ink
  • Introduction / Refresher To DOM Events

Friday 15th November, 2013 #

  • JavaScript Beyond the Web - The internet of connected things
  • 21 JavaScript Parts I Struggle To Remember
  • Do We Live in the Matrix? Tests could reveal whether we are part of a giant computer simulation
  • What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interview
  • EFF: Stop Secret Copyright Treaties - Tell Congress to Stand Up For Users' Rights
  • A Marine Was Assaulted - Her Commander Said She Deserved It For Wearing Running Shorts
  • Kids To People Who Are Afraid Of Gays: 'If I'd Have Gotten A Bunch Of Microscopes, Would I Be Gay?'
  • Upworthy - The Internet's latest viral wizard matches smart technology and lily-white earnestness to market "stuff that matters" online
  • Punk episode of BBC current affairs TV show (1977)

Saturday 9th November, 2013 #

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Wednesday 6th November, 2013 #

  • Alfred Russell Wallace - The Man Science Forgot - Animated story video about the other guy to discover natural selection
  • Here's The Cool Lesson That Was Delivered To Teach Twitter Engineers About Personal Finance
  • We Work Remotely is the best place to find and list jobs that aren’t restricted by commutes or a particular geographic area
  • As Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High, Analyst Explains Why It Has Come Back From The Dead
  • Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests - PBS Blank on Blank series
  • We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It
  • Liam Morgan uses snowboarding techniques while skateboarding down some of the long, steep, twisting roads in the coastal canyons of Los Angeles
  • Lou Reed by Patti Smith

Sunday 3rd November, 2013 #