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Monday, 29 December 2014

A Dad Is A Monkey's Paw

5,200 Days In Space, New Documents Reveal Which Encryption Tools The NSA Couldn't Crack, Man Is Shocked By Quality Of Gas Station Toilet, The Most Pirated Movies Of 2014, Daughter Asks For A 'Frozen' Doll, Dad Responds Literally, Why PlayStation Network Is Still Down, Even Though The 'Lizard Squad' Attacks Have Stopped
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Monday, December 29, 2014
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A MOBILE HOME FOR WHEN YOU NEED SPACE
5,200 Days In Space
theatlantic.com
An exploration of life aboard the International Space Station, and the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile.
GOOD NEWS FOR TOR AND PGP
New Documents Reveal Which Encryption Tools The NSA Couldn't Crack
theverge.com
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we're getting a new look at which programs can successfully keep out the NSA.
COUNT HOW MANY TIMES HE SAYS 'SHELL'
Man Is Shocked By Quality Of Gas Station Toilet
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It's either going to be really good or really bad...
NOT THE AWARD DICAPRIO WAS HOPING FOR
The Most Pirated Movies Of 2014
variety.com
"The Wolf of Wall Street," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Disney's animated smash "Frozen" were the two most-pirated movies for the year — with each title downloaded about 30 million times by torrent users worldwide in 2014.
THE END OF ALL DAD JOKES
Daughter Asks For A 'Frozen' Doll, Dad Responds Literally
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Merry Christmas kid, your toy will thaw out in a couple hours.
SQUAAAAAAAAAD
Why PlayStation Network Is Still Down, Even Though The 'Lizard Squad' Attacks Have Stopped
businessinsider.com
The notorious hacker gang "Lizard Squad" claims responsibility for those attacks, but the group claims to have stopped its attacks two days ago.So why is PlayStation Network still struggling to get back up, days after the attacks apparently ended?
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INFERNO ON THE HIGH SEAS
Image: In this image provided by the Italian Navy, smoke billows from the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic after it caught fire in the Adriatic Sea, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. A fire erupted on a ferry carrying 478 people from Greece to Italy on Sunday, leaving one person dead and trapping hundreds on top decks as gale-force winds and choppy seas hampered evacuation.
In this image provided by the Italian Navy, smoke billows from the Italian-flagged Norman Atlantic after it caught fire in the Adriatic Sea, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. A fire erupted on a ferry carrying 478 people from Greece to Italy on Sunday, leaving one person dead and trapping hundreds on top decks as gale-force winds and choppy seas hampered evacuation. Credit: AP Photo/Italian Navy
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Sunday, 28 December 2014

This Week's Best Videos: An Insane Scientology Ad, Shaq Gets Pushed Into A Christmas Tree And A Percolator That Sounds Like Women's Tennis

Scientology Will Make You Better So Fast No Limits Knowledge Forever, Road Biker Refuses To Be Limited To The Road, Shaq Got Shoved Into A Christmas Tree By Kenny Smith, Most People Would Call This A Short Film. Disney Would Call It An Experiment, Industrial Percolator Sounds Like Women's Tennis, How A Porsche 911 Engine Is Made
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
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CAN YOU SMELL RON'S INK?
Scientology Will Make You Better So Fast No Limits Knowledge Forever
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You'll be winning every moment, go faster, be better, you can do it, you're doing it. The Golden Age of Knowledge meets the Golden Age of Tech Phase II. New superior levels, you can audit — faster and better. More cognitions, BOOM fast! 1 second, 2 seconds. Be free to soar.
KEEP THE RUBBER SIDE FLIPPING
Road Biker Refuses To Be Limited To The Road
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If you were wondering "Can I use my road bike to pull off some sweet off-road tricks?" here is your answer.
PROBABLY TOOK A DIVE
Shaq Got Shoved Into A Christmas Tree By Kenny Smith
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We have no idea why, but please let this be a Christmas tradition from here on out.
'LUCID DREAMS OF GABRIEL'
Most People Would Call This A Short Film. Disney Would Call It An Experiment
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In this short, Disney Research Hub went a little nuts: varying frame rates in different parts of the frame, employing new compositing techniques and tone mapping. Some of it is pretty subtle but the overall effect is unusual and hallucinatory.
ALSO MAYBE SOUNDS LIKE OTHER STUFF
Industrial Percolator Sounds Like Women's Tennis
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Yes, yes it does.
PRECISION PORN
How A Porsche 911 Engine Is Made
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The most incredible thing about this video is the continuous, silent concentration of Porsche employees.
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WAVE YOUR SAFETY GOODBYE
Image: People are actually surfing these massive waves. And these waves do not look fun. They look deadly.
People are actually surfing these massive waves. And these waves do not look fun. They look deadly. Credit:
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Friday, 26 December 2014

Dirty Words

The Islamic State Is Failing At Being A State, Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader With Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses And More, Filthy Idioms In Other Languages, Percolator Sounds Like Women's Tennis, Florence Preps 'David' For The Big One, The Neuroscience Of Nostalgia
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Friday, December 26, 2014
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GOVERNING IS HARD
The Islamic State Is Failing At Being A State
washingtonpost.com
The Islamic State's vaunted exercise in state-building appears to be crumbling as living conditions deteriorate across the territories under its control, exposing the shortcomings of a group that devotes most of its energies to fighting battles and enforcing strict rules.
STUFF YOUR STUFF WITH FREE STUFF
Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone, eReader With Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Online Courses And More
openculture.com
Santa left a new Kindle, iPad, Kindle Fire or other media player under your tree. He did his job. Now we'll do ours. We'll tell you how to fill those devices with free intelligent media — great books, movies, courses, and all of the rest. And if you didn't get a new gadget, fear not. You can access all of these materials on the good old fashioned computer.
NSFW (SERIOUSLY, THESE ARE REALLY DIRTY)
Filthy Idioms In Other Languages
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English is often thought of as a confusing hodgepodge of a language, and for non-English speakers idioms like "to get one's got" or "crazy like a fox" can be difficult to understand. But when idioms from other languages are translated literally, the results are often just as weird and lot more... colorful.
ALSO MAYBE SOUNDS LIKE OTHER STUFF
Percolator Sounds Like Women's Tennis
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Yes, yes it does.
KEEPING ALL THE BITS IN PLACE
Florence Preps 'David' For The Big One
thedailybeast.com
The masterpiece is huge, but structurally flawed and terribly vulnerable to seismic activity.
WE JUST REALLY MISS YOU GUYS
The Neuroscience Of Nostalgia
america.aljazeera.com
How the brain stores sad, glad and bittersweet recollections.
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WALL OF WATER
Image: A man is silhouetted against a backdrop of an illustration of a tsunami as he prepares the stage for a memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of the Asian tsunami Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014 in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand. Dec. 26 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, that left more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and caused about $10 billion in damage.
A man is silhouetted against a backdrop of an illustration of a tsunami as he prepares the stage for a memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of the Asian tsunami Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014 in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand. Dec. 26 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, that left more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and caused about $10 billion in damage. Credit: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E
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Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Did You Hear The One About North Korea?

Did You Hear The One About North Korea?, Disarming The Lords Of War, People Are Actually Surfing These Massive Waves, I Will Not Post This, Every Day Is Christmas For These Santas Who Legally Changed Their Names, And That's How Rice Paper Is Made
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
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CHEESE, SNAKE WINE, AND HIGH HEELS
Did You Hear The One About North Korea?
digg.com
How Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's iron grip on the media powers an absurd, thriving rumor economy.
FIND THE 'BOOM' BEFORE IT GOES 'BOOM'
Disarming The Lords Of War
foreignaffairs.com
To understand how poorly the global arms trade is regulated, consider this: For a $70 billion industry that produces seven to eight million firearms annually, it loses one million weapons every year to arms traders.
WAVE YOUR SAFETY GOODBYE
People Are Actually Surfing These Massive Waves
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These waves do not look fun. They look deadly.
MUM'S THE TWEET
I Will Not Post This
medium.com
The coming age of self censorship.
HO, HO, HOLY COW THEY ACTUALLY DID IT
Every Day Is Christmas For These Santas Who Legally Changed Their Names
huffingtonpost.com
Santa Claus, Santa Claus and Santa A. Claus discuss their attachment to the beloved Christmas figure and why they decided to legally change their names to his.
HOT PAPER! GET YOUR HOT PAPER!
And That's How Rice Paper Is Made
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Anyone want to split an order of dumplings?
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LAZY ONES JUST SIT ON THE CHAIRS
Image: Children learn to skate using chairs as support, on the ice of a pond that serves as an ice rink in the winter months, outside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014.
Children learn to skate using chairs as support, on the ice of a pond that serves as an ice rink in the winter months, outside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Margriet Faber
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Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Warning: Sexy Music Inside

Behind The Daily Paywall: The Site That Pays You To Read Pirated Articles, Airbus Treats Five Brand-New A350s Like Fighter Jets, The Day The Pintupi Nine Entered The Modern World, Why D'Angelo's New Album 'Black Messiah' Makes You Want to Have Sex, Cardistry Is Beautiful. Watch This If You Don't Believe Us, The Ethics Of Sarcastic Science
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014
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A DIFFERENT KIND OF PAY-PER-VIEW
Behind The Daily Paywall: The Site That Pays You To Read Pirated Articles
motherboard.vice.com
Since 1997, when the Wall Street Journal became the first major newspaper to block its content from non-subscribers, a number of outlets have followed suit in fortifying their walls to protect revenue. Paolo Cirio is trying to knock them down.
$1.5 BILLION WORTH OF PLANES
Airbus Treats Five Brand-New A350s Like Fighter Jets
digg.com
To celebrate the certification of their latest jet, Airbus decided to have a bit of fun.
OUT OF THE DESERT
The Day The Pintupi Nine Entered The Modern World
bbc.com
In 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were encountered in the heart of the Gibson desert in Western Australia. They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, until that fateful day.
OR: WHY IT'S CALLED BABY-MAKING MUSIC
Why D'Angelo's New Album 'Black Messiah' Makes You Want to Have Sex
nymag.com
As Ava Tunnicliffe wrote in Nylon, "If there was only one word to describe the album, it would be sexy. In three words, it's really, really sexy." But why is it a sexy album? It seems like a question designed to drain the very sexiness from the thing itself, but it can actually tell us some interesting things about the psychology of music and sex.
PICK A CARD, EVERY CARD
Cardistry Is Beautiful. Watch This If You Don't Believe Us
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What is cardistry? It's the art of complicated and ornate shuffles. These folks spend a long time practicing, and the results are worth it.
ATTACH MAGNET TO FRONT OF CAR
The Ethics Of Sarcastic Science
theatlantic.com
Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue of joke science. But years later, those papers are cited as real. And that's not so good.
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AN UNENDING UNREST
Image: Dontre Hamilton's mother, Maria Hamilton participates in a protest Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, in Milwaukee. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced earlier in the day that there would be no charges against former police office Christopher Manney in the fatal shooting of Dontre Hamilton.
Dontre Hamilton's mother, Maria Hamilton participates in a protest Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, in Milwaukee. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm announced earlier in the day that there would be no charges against former police office Christopher Manney in the fatal shooting of Dontre Hamilton. Credit: AP Photo/Morry Gash
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