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Tuesday 31st December, 2013 #

Monday 30th December, 2013 #

Friday 27th December, 2013 #

  • Guy gets ripped on Cocaine, LSD And Ketamine while at work wrapping Christmas presents dressed up as an elf
  • Paxman vs Brand - full interview
  • Three decades after growing up in a European free-love commune, Paul-Julien Robert plunged into the film archives to make the extraordinary documentary, My Fathers, My Mother and Me
  • What It Takes To Become A Special Effects Engineer
  • 7 Immortals - "Thursday Night Live"
  • Ze Frank: If you are in a shell...
  • Theory of Obscurity: Documentary about The Residents
  • Most Popular Feature Films Released In 2014
  • Do We Want an Erasable Internet?
  • Mark Cuban: When people connect to their phones for anything other than an occasional text or email it means we have failed at entertaining our customers
  • Brunch is an ultra-fast HTML5 build tool

Thursday 26th December, 2013 #

Wednesday 25th December, 2013 #

  • Music publishers claim to own "Silent Night" & ripoff indie Youtube singer
  • The Best Story Yet About The UK's Online Porn Filters
  • Showgirls - Two Filmmakers Go Gonzo At The Club “Where Strippers Go To Die"
  • Edward Snowden will deliver Channel 4’s Alternative Christmas Message
  • Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies
  • The ‘Nymphomaniac’ Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know About Lars von Trier’s Epic Study of Sexual Obsession

Tuesday 24th December, 2013 #

  • The History and Future of Everything -- Time
  • Shrine of Santa Muerte (Holy Death) - Hundreds of people flock daily to Mexico City’s colonial center to ask for health, wealth, prosperity and happiness
  • Why is Canada naming its warships after U.S. defeats?
  • Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished
  • UK's new national firewall: O2's "parental control" list blocks Slashdot, EFF, and Boing Boing
  • France’s Graffiti Général Gets Virtual Afterlife on Eve of Its Destruction

Monday 23rd December, 2013 #

  • Excerpted from God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis
  • Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot released from Russian prison in Sochi Olympics amnesty
  • Not All Memories Are Lost: The Man Whose Mind Exploded Reviewed
  • The Man Whose Mind Exploded - Documentary Trailer
  • Alternative Nation MTV UK Toby Amies Final Show
  • Canadian spies lied to judge to obtain surveillance warrants, deliberately misinterpreted law and asked other countries' intelligence services to spy for them
  • Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice
  • Four new breweries coming to the Ottawa area

Friday 20th December, 2013 #

  • Solar powered fire-starter - no moving parts, no flint, no fuels, no gases, and no batteries
  • One Small Step for Privacy, One Giant Leap Against Surveillance - 193 members of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously approve "The right to privacy in the digital age" UN privacy resolution
  • Walk across New Hampshire with Larry Lessig and friends to reform campaign finance and fight corruption
  • Turn your earbuds into custom fits with Sugru
  • BitTorrent Is Building An NSA-Proof Chat Product
  • What Makes Our Solar System Stand Out - Periodic table of exoplanets

Friday 13th December, 2013 #

Thursday 12th December, 2013 #

  • Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, And Conan Share A Lyft Car
  • Atlanta's Party Animals Are Crazy About A New Spa That Claims To Cure Hangovers With An IV Drip
  • South Africa admits mistake over 'schizophrenic' Mandela signer
  • Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis
  • Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data
  • No Internet Week: Five internet addicts step away from their screens for a week in this short documentary

Monday 9th December, 2013 #

Sunday 8th December, 2013 #

  • Banksy piece auctioned for $457,000
  • Dharamsala, population 20,000 and one of the most hacked places in the world - home to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader
  • French government cert authority issuing unauthorised certificates for Google domains
  • David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'
  • Glitchy A/V art installation about "space-time compression"
  • Turn any bike into a hybrid with the Copenhagen Wheel - a motorized disk unit that attaches to the rear wheel
  • Porn Industry Faces Another Shutdown After Performer Tests Positive For HIV
  • Turn Beer Bottles into Attractive, Cheap Glasses
  • Rethread a Drawstring with a Straw
  • 'In Dreams' - Experimental documentary that focuses on reoccurring dreams and the effect they have on the people dreaming them

Saturday 7th December, 2013 #

  • Blouse - Into Black
  • Stoned Kids: Eight-year-old leukemia patient who takes massive amounts of weed to treat her illness, her family believes in palliative aspect and also that pot can literally shrink tumors
  • US Spy Satellite Logo Not At All Subtle: Octopus Enveloping The Earth
  • Domain Name Registrars Vs. Resellers
  • Adam Curtis: What the Fluck! - The point at which journalism fails and modern power begins

Wednesday 4th December, 2013 #

  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III - Quantum mechanics
  • Claymation - not for children eyes
  • Kali - Goddess of Time, Change, and Destruction
  • Sugru - Magnets are freaking awesome - Attach anything to anything with sugru + magnets!
  • Stars pose naked with fish - The global marine ecosystem will collapse within a generation if unsustainable fishing practices are allowed to continue
  • Colorado town is poised to vote in the next week and a half on an ordinance that will allow drone hunting

Tuesday 3rd December, 2013 #