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Thursday 27th February, 2014 #

  • GCHQ spied on millions of Yahoo video chats, harvested sexual images of chatters, compared itself to "Tom Cruise in Minority Report"
  • Class On Creative Reading - William S. Burroughs
  • Actor Seth Rogen gives his opening statement before a Senate hearing on Alzheimer's Research (C-SPAN)
  • A Crazy Oculus Rift Hack Lets Men and Women Swap Bodies
  • LIFE AFTER PI - Short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios that explores the forces impacting the global VFX community and the Film Industry as a whole

Wednesday 26th February, 2014 #

  • MPAA’s latest anti-piracy move accidentally, completely screws Hollywood studios and might help visual effects workers fight foreign subsidies
  • In Napples the Camorra crime family is causing high cancer rates
  • Everywhere At Once - Rory Scovel - Art + Comedy
  • Silvan - The Great Magician
  • The story behind the "Too Cool To Do Drugs" pencil
  • Nate Silver: The themes, motifs, and plots from 85 years of best-picture-nominated movies do tell a story
  • Vape life: welcome to the weird world of e-cig evangelists

Monday 24th February, 2014 #

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Saturday 22nd February, 2014 #

Thursday 20th February, 2014 #

  • This Ingenious Touchscreen UI Should Be in Every Car
  • Where is Earth located in the galaxy?
  • The FCC has a plan to save net neutrality, but no one likes it
  • The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist?
  • Detailed analysis of Syria's network censorship with logs from Blue Coat's surveillance boxes
  • Fax Your GP: quick opt-out from insane NHS plan to sell your medical records

Wednesday 19th February, 2014 #

  • Game theory: how 70,000 pokemon players sabotage themselves
  • Comic book explains why the Transpacific Partnership serves no one but the ultra-rich
  • Why does the brain remember dreams?
  • Vitruvian Man Had a Hernia
  • Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S.
  • Listen to a Recording of a Song Written on a Man’s Butt in a 15-Century Hieronymus Bosch Painting
  • Pussy Riot Detained for Hours in Sochi, Leave Station Singing
  • Could these creepy chest packs be North Korea's way of threatening radiological war?
  • How To Use Your Waffle Iron Like A F*cking Moron
  • How I think about Bootstrap
  • Kiev Is Burning: Ukrainian Riot Police Are Storming Protest Camps
  • Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago
  • One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society

Sunday 16th February, 2014 #

Wednesday 12th February, 2014 #

Sunday 9th February, 2014 #

  • Specials frontman Terry Hall takes over the Sunday afternoon slot for the whole of February armed with a box of records carefully selected from his personal collection
  • Humans of New York Part III
  • Will The Spanish Monarchy Survive Its Royal Drama?
  • AHRobot is an air hockey robot player build using standard RepRap 3D printer parts
  • Woody Allen v. Dylan Farrow - The Court of Public Opinion is now in session
  • Employee Stock Options as Explained By an English Major
  • Dylan Farrow Responds to Woody Allen: 'Distortions and Outright Lies'

Saturday 8th February, 2014 #

  • ‘Downhill Racer’ and the Baffling Absentee Legacy of Winter Olympics Movies
  • Snowboarding’s slopestyle event has been dominated recently by a 20-year-old from the flat plains of Saskatchewan, Canada, Mark McMorris #slicksite
  • A Conspiracy To Commit Journalism: The Justice Dept's Dangerous New Argument Threatens Basic Reporting
  • Woody Allen Speaks Out - Responds to Dylan Farrow accusations
  • GoPro Files For IPO As The Action Camera Maker Prepares To Go Public

Monday 3rd February, 2014 #

  • Grunt and RequireJS are out, it’s all about Gulp and Browserify
  • Chaos Computer Club files criminal complaint against the German Government
  • The House I Live In (2012) - penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy
  • Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood (2009)
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Greatest Actor of His Generation - Hollywood's patron saint of schlubs, losers, and outcasts
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City appartment of an apparent drug overdose late Sunday morning
  • Canada's weirdly recursive geography - the world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island