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CLASSICS | OF INTEREST | FRONT END | JAVASCRIPT | DEVELOPMENT | LINK GOODNESS

CLASSICS:

• Diamonds are Bullshit – Priceonomics
• Yahoo! Chat – A Eulogy – Ridiculous fish
• Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
• Quotes. Erik Farkas
• Avoid crowds all together – Gaping Void
• Thoughts on Flash. Apple / don’t like Apple for being evil….
• Adobe Announces Amazing Suite Of HTML5 Tools In Bid To Merge Open Source And Profit. Forbes
• Situational Leadership – Wikipedia
• Open Source Entrepreneurship. Steve Blank
• A game when games were new – Medium
• The pendulum swings again – Jacques Maettheij
• Ideas are Just A Multiplier of Execution – Sivers
• Facebook – Stallman
• The Pilcrow – Shady Characters. The secret life of punctuation
• No One is Going to Help You, Does That Encourage or Discourage You? – Sivers
• How to Manipulate People For Fun (and Profit) – Social Triggers
• World Wide Wasteland – Zemanta
• Quit waiting to get picked – Yaron Schoen
• Use the Tor Browser and Network or VPN to surf the web anonymously—the way it was intended to be.
• Learning the Shell – Linux Command
• Learnable Programming. WorryDream
• Why I won’t sign your NDA – Blog JPL Consulting
• If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker – Sebastian Marshall
• Life and how to survive it – Mr. Wang Says So
• When the government comes knocking who has your back? – EFF
• The parable of the two philosophers – <fromlife> </todeath>
• On the Rapid End-Of-Lifing of Android Devices. Spiers
• Running in Packs vs. Going it Alone – Rails Spikes
• Why I stand up for Stallman – Scripting
• All about using the webkit inspector: Modern Web Development – Jtbay
• Why I’m a pirate – Ploum
• Stoicism for Modern Stresses: 5 Lessons from Cato
• Path To Mastery. Sivers
• The Nerd Handbook – Rands
• Know about surveillance https://ssd.eff.org/
• Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie. Mens Fitness
• Give it 5 Minutes – 37 Signals
• The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing – Boing Boing
• The Free Software Definition – GNU
• GNU Accessibility Statement – GNU
• Why Tony Stark is better than you – Julio’s Blog
• The Dalai Lama makes alot of sense to me when he says religion is inadequte.
• How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
• Facebook the Devourer – Award Winning Fjords
• Facebook Isn’t Worth It. Seeker Suck
• Innovation is a Fight. Rands in Respose
• What one book could give me a new, useful superpower? Ask Metafilter
• I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Fucking Ecosystem. Terence Eden
• Happiness is letting someone make you the villain. Sivers
• HACKING MY VAGINA. Scan Lime
• The Path to Mastery. Perl Monks
• Some will always say you’re wrong. Derek Sivers

OF INTEREST (Finance, Psychology, Business, Global Affairs):

• ‘Tsunami bomb’ tested off New Zealand coast. Telegraph News
• Economy will limp along on 2012. CNN
• What is the fiscal cliff? CNN Money
• New Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign. BBC
• If Peter Thiel And Garry Kasparov Are Right, Then We’re In Trouble. The Stock Market Watch
• What is the normalcy bias?
• This article doesn’t appear to be here anymore, it was last year: “The End of America”: Porter Stansberry Sees the Future … And It’s Grim Try YouTube, I’m sure you can find it there. Do not view this video if you are not an open-minded person.
• A crash course on the current state of the economy. Well thought out and presented: The crash course
• Muslims over the world should definitely stop falling for traps that are set for them to react. We are a reactionary people and this happens: YouTube refuses to remove anti-Islamic film clip, which is followed by reactions from all over the world: 1 killed, 11 injured during protests against anti-Islam film in Karachi.
• The Saudis are bulldozing Islam`s heritage. Why the silence from the Muslim world? Telegraph News
• China lands J-15 jet on Liaoning aircraft carrier. BBC
• Syria faces military showdown amid chemical weapon fears. Xinhua
• Citigroup cutting 11,000 jobs, taking $1 billion in charges. Reuters
• New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world: as it happened. Telegraph
• Al Jazeera buys Current TV. CNN Money
• Why extroverts fail, introverts flounder and you probably succeed. Washington Post
• China’s economy steadily rises. CNN Money
• This is what would happen if we breach the debt ceiling. Wonk Blog
• Giant squid filmed in Pacific depths, Japan scientists report. Phys Org
• China’s economy steadily rises. CNN Money

LINK GOODNESS:

June 11- 16, 2013

• Apple’s iOS 7: The iPhone and iPad are changing everything … again. NBC Tech
• The PRISM Details Matter. Mark Jaquith
• iOS7; or Why Is Everyone Suddenly A Design Critic? Compylr
• NSA leaker is a patriot not a traitor. SFGate
• Stop Watching Us. Stop Watching Us
• Terms of Service; Didn’t Read. tosdr
• Fertile Ground. Marco Arment
• Start updating your apps for iOS7. NOW. ENTROPY
• iOS 7: Instead of Flatness, We Got Depth. Gizmodo

June 08 – 10, 2013

• All the Apple News (In Brief). Wirecutter
• Facebook is just fine. Medium
  
• I want to respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PRISM. Facebook
• What the …? Google Blog
• The Internet Is a Surveillance State. Schneier
• Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret. EFF
• Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’. Chronicle
• Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry? LinkedIn

June 04, 2013

• Protests in Turkey. The Big Picture
• The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back. Medium
• Hexagonal Grids. Red Blob Games

May 06, 2013

• Apple, open and learning from history. Ben-Evans
• Rise of the Facebook-Killers. Village Voice

May 03, 2013

• What a stupid idea. DCurtis
  
• The antisocial network: Path texts my entire phonebook at 6am. Branded3
• Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Sized TechShop. Hack Things
• Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform. Andrew Chen
• A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy. Above the Crowd

April 27, 2013

• Twitter Should Shut Me Down. Mkrency
  
• The next generation of Instapaper. - Marco
• Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users. Free Culture
• Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform. Andrew Chen
• A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy. Above the Crowd

April 21, 2013

• Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps. Venture Beat
• Is Organic Better? Ask a Fruit Fly - NYTimes.com
• No, Fuck Off — Startups and Tech — Medium
• BBC News – 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place
• The secrets of body language: why you should never cross your arms again – The Buffer Blog

April 16, 2013

• You know, Google, the web already had this feature. Vrpan.net
• News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier. Guardian News (Mobile)
• Designing Open Source — Words About Design . Medium
• Facebook Home ads show Facebook at its worst Medium
• Hiring front-end developersJulio’s Blog
• Women, Tech Conferences and the BullSh!t Surrounding ItSugar Rae
• The Netflix Tech Blog: HTML5 Video at NetflixNetflix
• The PA Report – Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men, and how one studio is fighting backPenny Arcade
• Hiring front-end developersJulio’s Blog
• How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future$MSFT
• Why don’t cell phones have a dialtone?Dan Goldin
• Microsoft Plans 7-Inch TabletWSJ

April 7, 2013

• Microsoft’s Office for iOS, Android: Not until fall 2014?.ZDNET
• Why What You’re Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong.Infrequently Noted
• Why the Facebook Phone will be a flop.Network World
• Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy. Giga Om
• Why does this PNG image display differently in Chrome & Firefox than in Safari and IE? Super User
• Detecting TOR Communication in Network Traffic.Etersec
• IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant.CNET

March 22, 2013

• Whole internet probed for insecure devices. BBC
• Microsoft backs away from Flash ban in IE10 CNET
• Google is getting a smartwatch now too? CNET

March 19, 2013

• Future of Firefox Dev Tools. Paul Roget
• The Samsung Galaxy S4 Is Completely Amazing and Utterly Boring Wired
• Google, destroyer of ecosystems. Corte
• Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012 Typographa
• Project WindstormZephrosanemos
• Kevin Lynch has joined as VP of Technology, reporting to SVP Bob MansfieldYou Tube

February 11, 2013

• The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards. The Atlantic
• Mailbox App, By Orchestra, Inc.. Apple Store
• The promise of Firefox OS. Sergim Mansilla
• It’s all who you know? Derek Sivers
• Why Facebook Makes you Feel Bad About Yourself Health Land

February 07, 2013

• Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October. WSJ
• Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014. Extreme Tech
• Designing for Metro style and the desktop. MSDN
• Surface Pro: Hefty Tablet Is a Laptop Lightweight WSJ

February 04, 2013

• New BlackBerry? New BlackBerry. The Wire Cutter
• 5 Ways SublimeText Just Bodybags vim+Terminator. Kevin NGO
• Inventor of Etch A Sketch dies in France at 86. AP
• >Do Not Type “File:///” in OS X Open Radar
• A crazier prediction: iPhone Plus is real, and huge. Marco
• Gabe Newell: Steam Box’s biggest threat isn’t consoles, it’s Apple. Polygon
• 1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords. Feross
• No, I’m not going to install your bullshit app. Tom Morris

January 31, 2013

• BlackBerry Z10 vs iPhone 5: Does BB10 stand a chance?. Geek
• Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda. The Atlantic
• What’s so great about JavaScript Promises? Parse Blog
• The stupid cookie law is dead at last. Blog Silktide
• High Performance Networking in Google Chrome. Igvita
• Microsoft Releases Office 365 Home Premium. $MSFT
• A Guide to Engineering Experience. Oreilly

January 30, 2013

• If Your Website Or Search Isn’t As Fast As Google, It’s Too Slow. The Codist
• What’s so great about JavaScript Promises? Parse Blog
• One line browser notepad. Coder Wall
• Pixels don’t care. Warpspire

January 29, 2013

• Step by step from jQuery to Backbone Github
• Alt JS. Alt.js

January 27, 2013

• How To Make An iPhone App That Actually Sells. Observation Deck
• Building Firefox OS. Building Firefox OS
• LibreOffice 4.0: The big changes will be under the hood. ZDnet
• Why do game developers prefer Windows? Stack Exchange
• Mozilla Recognized as Most Trusted Internet Company for Privacy. Mozilla
• Ubuntu Phone will include a Terminal application. Ubuntu

January 27, 2013

• America Has Hit “Peak Jobs”. Tech Crunch
• Successful and Schizophrenic. NY Times

January 24, 2013

• What It’s Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project. H. Arthur
• A Whole New Code Search. Github
• How to test whether your idea has a market. Codeable.io

January 23, 2013

• Announcing the Firefox OS Developer Preview Phone! Mozilla
• The Firefox OS Marketplace is Brilliant. Dendory
• Fantastic HTML5 Demos. Form Follows Function
• How to Use Photoshop in Ubuntu. Prtfl.io
• Hands on: Huawei Ascend Mate review. Tech Radar

January 21, 2013

• Stay focused – New research on how to close the achievement gap. The Economist
• Secret Ingredient for Success. NY Times
• Static Typing: Give me a break! Good Math, Bad Math
• An Irrational Fear of Files on the Desktop. Prog 21
• Engineers are cold and dead inside, research shows. The Register

January 20, 2013

• Parsley.js: never write a single javascript line anymore to validate your forms. Parsely.js
• Google aims to replace passwords with ID ring. Telegraph /Thesis – Antithesis – Synthesis.

January 15, 2013

• iOS Development Tips If You’re Just starting Out. Stuart Hall
• With GoBank, you can carry all your money in a pocket. C | Net

January 15, 2013

• Aaron Swartz
  • Aaron Swartz’s Lawyer: Prosecutor Stephen Heymann Wanted ‘Juicy’ Case For Publicity. Huff Post
  • Why Did The Secret Service Take Over Aaron Swartz’s Case Two Days Before He Was Arrested. Tech Dirt
• 5 Design Books You Should Read. Mckinney
• Turn Documents to Data. Document Cloud

January 14, 2013

• MIT President on Aaron Swartz. Pastebin
• I Hate the News. Raw Thought
• The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime”. Unhandled
• Cory Doctorow: RIP, Aaron Swartz. Boing boing
• Commons man. The economist
• Anonymous on Aaron Swartz. MIT
• “The computer is electronic cocaine for people”.  Says UCLA’s Peter Whybrow

One of the best articles I’ve read about the late Aaron Schwartz: Prosecutor as bully. Lessig. The first comment on the blog post sums it all up. Inspiring comment!

Aaron, Manning, Assange, Kyriakoy, Occupy, all persecuted, hounded, some tortured. For what? For speaking truth to power, for revealing corruption, war crimes. For liberating information.

Meanwhile, Yoo, Addington, Libby, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales go around signing book covers and giving lectures about national security. The murderers, torturers and torture apologists are celebrated. The whistleblowers crushed.

Blankfein, Greenberg, Pandit, Mozilo, Geithner, go around lecturing us about financial responsibility, instead of rotting in jail for fraud, theft, embezzlement, corruption, bribery and multiple criminal conspiracies.

This is the disgusting injustice the underlies Aaron Swartz’s death. A Department of Justice that makes a mockery of the word “justice”, where the rule of law has become a joke, where the greatest criminals of our day wear ties and suits and are *absolutely beyond prosecution*, while the poorest get relentless, unforgiving, zero tolerance prosecution for the tiniest of misdeamenors.

Aaron was cursed with the ability to open his mind wide enough to see the world in all its ugly injustice and reality. His idealism, passion and honesty made him speak truth to power, so he was crushed.

There are only two crimes that are punished in this country now: being poor or challenging the powerful.

January 11, 2013

• Safari
  • Safari is released to the world. Don Melton
  • Keeping Safari a secret. Don Melton
• Nokia sold 4.4 million Lumia smartphones in ‘solid’ Q4 2012; results ‘exceeded expectations’. The Next Web
• CES 2013: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560×1440 Monitor for $390. Tested

January 10, 2013

• f.lux makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. F.Lux
• Tutorial: GIMP 2.9/2.10 Feature Preview. Gimp Users
• Surface Pro: an in-depth look at Microsoft’s super tablet. The Verge

January 09, 2013

• Howdoi – Instant Coding Answers via the Command Line. Github
• HTC Profit Plunges 91% In Smartphone War. Sky News
• Apple reportedly to roll out low-cost iPhone for emerging markets in 2H13. Digi Times

January 08, 2013

• Nvidia announces own ‘Shield’ gaming device at CES. Cnet
• Gmail: Why does “?shva=1″ get appended to the URL when loading Gmail? Quora
• HTML5 Showcase for Web Developers. The Wow and the How. HTML5Wow
• Web Developers Checklist. Web Dev Checklist
• HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS. http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
• Lenovo’s 27″ Tablet. Mobile Industry Review
• The Fifth Horseman: Samsung. Tech Crunch
• Incredible photos from the CES vault: 1967 to 2012. The Verge
• Here’s how to Skype without being monitored. Skype Hide
• Samsung Unveils The Future Of TV. Business Insider
• What is the maximum length of a URL? Stack Exchange
• Personal Annual Report. http://jehiah.cz/one-two/
• Nokia Confirms It’s Keeping An Open Mind About Using Android In Future. Message To Microsoft: Don’t Take Support For Granted? Tech Crunch

January 06, 2013

• iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? Hanselman
• An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4. Completely. 24100
• Mosh: the mobile shell. MIT
• Liked this Research, Share and Collab tool. Diigo
• Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software. Sivers

January 03, 2013

• Ubuntu for Phones. Ubuntu
• Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones. Engadget
• Do people really want to look at multiple windows at once? UX Stack Exchange
• U.S. Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service. Bloomberg

January 02, 2013

• Top of the line Linux Hosting at Media Temple. MT
• No bullshit guide to math and physics. Mini Reference

January 01, 2013

• How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic. Assert True
• IE10 below 1% market share, Firefox back under 20%, Chrome recovers from three months of losses. The Next Web
  
• Interesting blogs:
  • Big Men on Content
  • Ian Truscott
• The Guardian publishes stats on the size of their commenting community. Curry Bet
• The Triumph of Nerds. The Economist 

December 31, 2012

• Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles To Cut Costs. Tech Crunch
• I don’t want to download your app. New Come
•  Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices. Pingdom

December 29, 2012

• Here Are The Hot New Technologies That Will Get Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In 2013. Business Insider
• The top 10 tech ‘fails’ of 2012 (liked Mcdonalds and twitter twits). CNN
• HTML Experiments. The Good Man
• Fujitsu Not Pleased With Windows 8 Demand, Either. All Things Digital
• Dreams of ‘Open’ Everything. Bits Blog, NY Times

December 28, 2012

• Let’s make a Firefox app. 12 Devs of Christmas
• 14 big trends to watch in 2013. Oreilly
• Cool. Free DNS tools. View DNS
• Why We Should All Care About Today’s Senate Vote on the FISA Amendments Act, the Warrantless Domestic Spying Bill. EFF
• If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it. Max Rudberg
• Slant helps you decide quickly.

December 25, 2012

• The best interface is no interface. Cooper
• A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It. Scalzi

December 24, 2012

• What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?. Wired
• Page Weight Matters. Chris Zacharias
• BlackBerry 10 is Going to Have the Best Web Browser of Any Mobile Platform. Tech Vibes
• Google Flights. Google $GOOG

December 22, 2012

• How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Slate
• Calculating a College Degree’s True Value. Business Week
• How Did Siri Get Its Name? Forbes & Quora
  
• Why the Instagram debacle just taught every tech company to be shadier than ever. The Verge

December 20, 2012

• How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account. Wired
• Instagram’s official response. Instagram
• Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos
• Wal-Mart selling Apple’s iPhone 5 at big discount. Reuters
• So who was being the biggest jerk to iOS Maps users? Evan Wiener
• Samsung Displaces Nokia as Top Cellphone Brand in 2012 and Takes Decisive Smartphone Lead Over Apple. iSuppli
• Thank you, and we’re listening. Instagram
• Facebook’s New Privacy Settings Are Here: This Is What You Need To Do Right Now. Gizmodo

Show what’s possible using the web as an open gaming platform for the world.

December 12, 2012

• Nokia engineer shows how to pirate games from the Windows 8 store. The Verge
• Any page loaded in IE can track your mouse movements, anywhere, any tim. Spider.io
  
• Introducing a new Gist. Github
• Growth hacker, growth cracker; the labels don’t matter, but the skills do! SEO Moz
• Be yourself. Abnormal people create abnormal returns. 42 Floors

I found this interesting in an aerial satellite view. The urbanization of Dubai, NASA.

To expand the possibilities for beachfront tourist development, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates, undertook a massive engineering project to create hundreds of artificial islands along its Persian Gulf coastline. Built from sand dredged from the sea floor and protected from erosion by rock breakwaters, the islands were shaped into recognizable forms, including two large palm trees. The first Palm Island constructed was Palm Jumeirah, and the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite observed its progress from 2000 to 2011.

Totally obsessed, interesting idea and a good laugh. Hahaha….Nice intro to
history.replaceState. Responsive URLS

It feels like we’re obsessed with making everything responsive at the moment, but haven’t we forgotten something? That’s right, what about our URLs? Resize your browser now and see a responsive URL in action. If you’re on mobile device you’ll already be using the shortened URL, so try this on your desktop.

December 10, 2012

Hopefully a trend that won’t die. More jobs? “Made in the USA” is back, baby. Also ~Apple CEO Tim Cook announces plans to manufacture Mac computers in USA

Earlier this morning in a post about Apple manufacturing their products in the US, I wrote “look for this “made in the USA” thing to turn into a trend”. Well, Made in the USA is already emerging as a trend in the media. On Tuesday, Farhad Manjoo wrote about American Giant, a company who makes the world’s best hoodie entirely in the US for a decent price.

• Everything is my fault. Sivers
• Tablets are waiting for their Movable Type. 37 Signals
• China’s mini Apple takes slice of smartphone pie. Reuters
• The real threat that Samsung poses to Apple. Asymco
• The importance of being unrealistic. Alyssa Aldersly
• North Korea: On the net in world’s most secretive nation. BBC
• The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0. Gmail Blogspot
• Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True. YAHOO

December 09, 2012

• Can websites personally identify visitors? Google Plus
• Convert your website visitors into leads for your sales pipeline. Relead
• Just Finish Everything. Stat Spotting

December 05, 2012

• NoSQL: The Love Child of Google, Amazon and … Lotus Notes. Wired
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee flags UN net conference concerns. BBC
• ‘Everyone in US under virtual surveillance’ – NSA whistleblower. RT
• Microsoft opens its own social network. $MSFT. CNN
• Linux Has Not Won, Microsoft is as Dangerous as Ever, Fie on Secure Boot. LXer
• Thinking of Selling on eBay With Paypal? Think Again! Code Nerdz
• I’ve realized Twitter is outsourced schizophrenia. Adam Brault
• Apple – Think Different Twice. Then Bells
• Half of all app store revenue goes to just 25 developers. The Register

December 04, 2012

• The 61 Countries a Mad Despot Could Instantly Unplug From the Internet. Wired

December 02, 2012

• Windows 8 – 40 Million Licenses Sold. $MSFT
• A budding war of internet economics. MIT Economics
• Mine Kafon: The low-tech, high-design tumbleweed minesweeper. CNN
• Android Performance Case Studies. Curious Creature
• Editorial: How piracy changed my life. NeoWin
• DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation. Mother Jones
• CEOs Don’t Come Pre-Made, Authentic Leadership Has To Be Learned. TechCrunch
• Modern family: Dog adopts abandoned tiger cubs. BBC

November 30, 2012

• Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College. Chronicle
• How Syria Turned Off the Internet. Cloudfare
• Love Your Terminal. Andrew Hayes
• Miscellaneous Thoughts and Observations on iTunes 11. John Gruber
• Facebook and Zynga Cut Their Ties. BBC
• If Samsung doesn’t supply Apple’s processors, who will? CNN Money

November 29, 2012

• Syria has disconnected from the Internet. Renesys
• Tor exit node operator raided in Austria. Low End Talk
• 5 API’s that will transform the Web in 2013. Alex Maccaw
• Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook. Arstechnica
• A tutorial on anonymous email accounts. EFF
• Eddy Cue: Apple’s Rising Mr. Fix-It. WSJ $AAPL

November 28, 2012

• The Greatest Gmail Feature you may not be Using. JGC
• How To Setup a Secure Web Server. Arstechnica
• An open-source social news app built with Meteor. http://telesc.pe/
• 5 very cool design links per day. Sidebar
• Visual Stats. http://www.statista.com/
• Free Apps are More Likely to Invade User Privacy. Statista

November 27, 2012

• Microsoft has Failed. Semi Accurate
• 11 Apple iPads per hour vs. zero Microsoft Surface tablets. CNN Money
• The worst. Thought Crime
• Apple Said to Fire Maps Manager After Flaws Hurt IPhone 5. Bloomberg
• An iPad Lover’s Take On The Surface With Windows RT. MG Siegler, Tech Crunch

November 25, 2012

• What Hasn’t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. Dave Mcclure
• The War on Noise. Scobleizer
• Hacking My Vagina. Scanlime

November 24, 2012

• Windows 8 struggling to take off, survey and web data show. Guardian
• Why Is Belarus the Only Country Where Opera Is the Most Popular Browser? The Atlantic
• Can schools survive in the age of the web? BBC
• Apple’s stick in the mud routine is getting old. Pando Daily

November 24, 2012

• 18 Useful Twitter Boostrap Goodies You Should Know. Queness
• Changing times for web developers. Amazed Saint
• Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design. Adam Whitcroft
• Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece. Chris Dixon
• Will Apple’s Rebound Continue Next Week? Forbes
• Which James Bond Villain made the most Economic Sense? Marginal Revolution
• The War on Noise. Scobleizer

November 21, 2012

• How to get startup ideas. Paul Graham
• Airport Security Is Killing Us. Business Week
• Never Apologize for Having an Opinion — Especially When You’re Right. MG Siegler
• Most marriages break down over mundane household chores. Telegraph
• Gaza ceasefire hangs in the balance amid Israel-Hamas talks. Guardian

November 19, 2012

• Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like. Both Sides of the Table
• U.S. consumers hesitant to make switch to Windows 8. USA TODAY
• You can do it Alone. Ryan Carson
• Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users. Useit
• France Is Furious About The New Cover Of The Economist. Business Insider & The Economist
• Why Apple fell so hard. Fortune
• Twitter is Pivoting. Dalton Caldwell
• The Cost of Mobile Clicks. ASYMCO

November 16, 2012

• Cornell study discovers parrots name their chicks. Cornell via Reddit
• WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin. WordPress
• Google vs. Samsung. Asymco
• Engineers suck at finding the right jobs. Aimonetti
• Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game. All Things Digital
• Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years. Weku.fm
• You can now test out Firefox OS using a Mozilla browser add-on. Gadgetell
• Dell profit falls 47 percent. Reuters
• Survey: U.S. Consumers Hesitant to Make Switch to Windows 8. USA Today

November 14, 2012

• Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email
• Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps. Arstechnica
• Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012). Salon

November 13, 2012

• Google Nexus 4 Sells Out In Less Than An Hour (in Australia). Gizmodo AU
• Samsung Galaxy S3 stores passwords in plain text. Geek
• Alone Together, Again. Al3x
• Windows chief Sinofsky exits Mircosoft $MSFT. NY Times Bits

November 12, 2012

• Python for humans. https://speakerdeck.com/kennethreitz/python-for-humans

November 11, 2012

• The amount of crap computer users have to put up with is incredible, says Dendory.net .

November 10, 2012

• How to Devise Passwords That Drive Hackers Away. NY Times
• Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs, Analytics, Drive, more. The Next Web
• Test any website in real-time and see if it’s censored in China. http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
• Hacker sentenced to six years – WITH NO INTERNET. The Register

November 08, 2012

• The fight. Dustin Curtis
• Apple Stock Sinks as Profits and Products Are Questioned. NY Times
• REVIEW: Google’s Latest iPad Competitor, The Nexus 10

November 07, 2012

• Why Is the Surface So Bad? Farhad Manjoo @ Slate
• Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
• Obama’s victory won’t transform America. CNN
• Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes

November 06, 2012

• GHOST. Just a blogging platform. John Onolan
• You aren’t special, but you can make yourself be. Owen Williams
• Apple, sneaky to the core. $AAPL. Fool

November 05, 2012

• Fight. Live your dreams and aspirations now. Dustin Curtis
• Facebook Admits Too Much Facebook Probably Isn’t Healthy. Tech Crunch
• My IQ. Tanya Khovanova
• The Russian underground economy has democratized cybercrime. Arstechnica

November 04, 2012

• Engadget trolling. Linus Torvalds on Google Plus
• Apple Intentionally Tries to Hide Samsung Statement on U.K. Homepage Using JavaScript. Geekosystem
• New York. The city and the storm—a breathtaking photograph. Business Inisder
• US Government: You Don’t Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time. Slashdot

November 02, 2012

HTML5 Mythbusting (native apps vs.s HTML5 apps), from the folks over at Mozilla.

November 01, 2012

Check the PMI reports for the worlds biggest economies. Business Insider

U.S. phone addicts suffer withdrawal. FT

Marketing white babies. Cns News

This report was as worthless as it could be. The important factor, which everybody knows, is not age groups-that’s a red herring-but it is the percent of unwed mothers BY RACE. That’s not included in this report, because it would show that the vast majority of babies born to unwed mothers are either hispanic or black. While it’s a problem for whites as well, it pales in comparrison to illegitimate births among minorities. And it is minorities alone, that skew the percentages to the abomnable levels reported.

• The horrible future of social. Ted Nyman
• French tax authorities have made a billion-euro ($1.3 billion) claim against Google. France24
• Archos launches dual core Android slate, says Slashgear.
• Why Google voice search is much faster than Siri. Forbes
• Linus Torvalds: Make 2560×1600 the new standard laptop resolution
• How touching a computer is the most natural thing, says coding horror.

October 29, 2012

• The Saudi’s have gone mad in “Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam’s history” says The Independent.
• Gruber’s take on the leadership change at Apple.

October 19, 2012

Newsweek to stop printing and going all digital; I heard Newsweek might have a Pakistan edition:

Newsweek, the venerable US weekly magazine covering current events, will publish its final print edition on December 31 and move to an all-digital format early next year, two top executives said on Thursday.

Woops! Google earnings leak early, fall way short, and stock plunges.

Trading of the stock was halted after the midday release of Google’s third-quarter earnings, which was inadvertent. One section of the report contains a place for a “pending Larry quote, referring to Google CEO Larry Page. Google blamed the inadvertent early release on its financial printer, R.R. Donnelley, and said it would re-file its earnings later today.

New HAL Exoskeleton: Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit to Be Used In Fukushima Cleanup

On Windows 8: What is Windows RT (FAQ) and why you should buy a PC now.

Chrome Notebook battles with Microsoft tablets.

Much of the tech world’s attention this month is focused on two tablets: Microsoft’s Surface tablets running Windows 8, which just became available for pre-order, and Apple’s much-rumored iPad Mini, which could make its debut Oct. 23.

October 18, 2012

Microsoft’s Surface: Pre order it Apples iPad mini only comes with Wifi:

Apple’s expected “iPad mini” will only come in a Wi-Fi version – but there will also be a revised version of the iPad with 4G connectivity compatible with the UK’s Everything Everywhere network, and sporting the new “Lightning” connector, industry sources have told the Guardian.

October 10, 2012

• We’re doomed… How much do Google and Facebook profit from your data?
• Check out which companies are collecting your data with Privacy Fix.

October 08, 2012

• Android is winning – if you’re writing apps for China. Elsewhere, though…
• Worldwide global mobile sales down 2.3% says Gartner.
• Twice as Many Mobile News Readers Prefer Browsers to Apps

October 06, 2012

• A very sophisticated Text Editor for Windows. Check the Go To Anything feature: www.sublimetext.com
• Pushing the boundaries of game development in HTML5: http://buildnewgames.com/

October 04, 2012

• Why you’d be stupid to bet against HTML5

October 3, 2012

• Infidelity: Cheating spouses keep Pakistani spouses busy
• You can be allergic to orgasms. I didn’t know this: http://www.bakadesuyo.com/can-you-be-allergic-to-orgasms
• The story of the new Microsoft
• Dear Chrome, Slow Your Roll – MG Siegler

October 2, 2012

• Internet Explorer 8 falls below 25% market share, Firefox 15 passes 10% mark, Chrome loses users
• A CLI tool to get a public link for any file: https://github.com/uams/geturl
• We need a new authentication & identity system.

September 24, 2012

• Just loved the new Transit app. Nifty use of javascript and some really beautiful screenshots of the app.
• The new Google translate is phenomenal. They’ve written a great blog post describing the new features.

September 08, 2012

• Why context is so important
• Introducing a new Gist. Github
• Growth hacker, growth cracker; the labels don’t matter, but the skills do! SEO Moz
• Be yourself. Abnormal people create abnormal returns. 42 Floors

An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4. Completely.