Reform Government Surveillance
When the biggest American technology companies feel the need to do this, you know the US has a big problem. »
UPDATE: Union organizer shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle | SF Politics
Daily Bay Area corporate buses greenify 101 & 280 traffic and concurrently fuck up SF's mass transit & street traffic http://t.co... »
How I Built Emojitracker — Medium
How I Built Emojitracker: (This one's for the nerds.) »
Reform Government Surveillance
@sinak typo in URL »
Match Cut Movie Club
PDX: New Match Cut Movie Club event at a great new location! Jan 15, come early for cocktails! »
Match Cut Movie Club
Mark your calendars and calendrettes: our next screening is January 15, 2014. New location! http:/… »
Eggnog
nogs and such »
How to talk about copyright? | CopySpeak.org
How to talk about Copyright? Check Copyspeak dot org cc @doctorow @xeni »
Learn | Code.org
Girls are beating the boys in completing the #HourofCode. Start at & add your code to a team. htt... »
Jono Hunt  •  iconaholic.com
Hey, @jonohunt updated his website. Look at all that awesome work. Great stuff. »
emojitracker: realtime emoji use on twitter
.@mroth's post-mortem for is well worth reading - »
newsweek.com/today-tabs-our-incredible-journey-224179
@bijanstephen @theryanbradley @Newsweek yes! »
emojitracker: realtime emoji use on twitter
So @mroth, creator of EmojiTracker wrote about its creation, deployment, and maintenance »
Cable
These anti-cable cutting ads by the cable companies are bizzare. »
Random Beyoncé
Who needs Spotify when we have Random Beyonce? »
Santa Maps Dive
Ho Ho Ho! It’s Santa Dive »
nyti.ms/19uuts9
@lonelysandwich @biorhythmist @patr1ck @gte One assumes the NYT fact-checked it »
xkcd: File Extensions
Yeah, the more effort necessary to set up a file the more trustworthy it is »
i.imgur.com/c1kbgHd.gif
Current (and Forever) Mood »
stripe-contrib/stripe-cli · GitHub
A complete CLI interface for @stripe »
Jupiter Ascending - HD Trailer - Official Warner Bros. - YouTube
Trailer for the new sci-fi film from the Wachowskis, Jupiter Ascending. Looks interesting - »
The Definition of Success — Medium
I published my first Medium article, "The Definition of Success". »
Donate to the Internet Archive!
Turn $50 into $200: Until the end of the year, all Internet Archive donations are matched 3-to-1. Tax-deductible! »
Santa brand book
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus brand: (by @quietroomtweets) »
TEAM | Making Change Media
@greenspacenotes @rascouet »
Google Employee: "You can't afford it? You can leave!" (Update: Hoax)
Lord I hope so. “@kevinroose: On second viewing, I have $10 on that Google employee being fake.” »
Dear Ticketmaster, — This Could be Better — Medium
Dear Ticketmaster: It’s time to redesign all tickets: A thorough redesign project, well-researched and considered »
I Wanna Date You Like An Animal — The Nib  — Medium
My favorite: the Argonaut, with its “free-swimming, detachable penis tentacle” via @MattBors »
jack's post on Frontback
Introducing the new Square reader! Our best performing yet. #frontback »
Grace Hopper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Women in computing? Thanks google homepage ;) »
Motherboard Podcast by Kathryn Rotondo — Kickstarter
Motherboard Podcast--conversations w/ mothers working in tech, sharing stories, challenges, etc vi… »
Traffic Light Lets You Play Pong - YouTube
Awesome traffic light thing in Germany »
Grace Hopper on Letterman - YouTube
@asterios Grace Hopper! She's a pistol, invented COBOL, handed out 30cm wires to represent nanoseconds. »
Mind the income gap
The income gap in America is creating two different countries »
Instagram
goodbye world MT @rachelsklar Wow. @dorrian did it - he made a huge wifi-enabled statue of Nikola Tesla happen. »
WestJet Christmas Miracle: real-time giving - YouTube
Well done @WestJet this is fantastic! »
Open WhisperSystems >> Blog >> TextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users
Outstanding. @CyanogenMod ships secure SMS to other CM and TextSecure users, with no user facing changes at all »
Protesters Block Google Bus at 24th and Valencia | Uptown Almanac
Went past this today and mistakenly assumed they were protesting the church they were outside of. »
Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life - The New York Times
One in 5 U.S. children now live in poverty—highest child poverty rate of any developed nation but Romania. »
The Horrifying Dangers Of Online "Cartoon-Like Personas" | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Look at what an NSA hipster @EFF is, ridiculing spying on 3D worlds like Warcraft and Second Life in 2008 »
Learn to Code Switch Before You Learn to Code - Anil Dash
For tech to get the talent it needs, we have to teach kids to code switch before we teach them to code »
Periscope Studio: Maiden Voyage by Periscope Studio — Kickstarter
My studio has 10 days left to raise $11,360 to print our art books. Just added more limited rewards yesterday! »
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts - Boing Boing
Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts »
Oh my God a hawk just ripped up a pigeon right in front of me and totally just sat there eating it - Boing Boing
Oh my God a hawk just ripped up a pigeon right in front of me and is totally just sat there eating it »
The 22 Most Powerful Photos of 2014
Really moving: the 22 most powerful photos of 2014 »
nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playing-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html
@Nelson, it's 10a and you haven't tweeted about the NSA and WoW yet. Are you okay? »
The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead | Wired Business | Wired.com
My favorite part of working at Foursquare is being surrounded by all the smarties »
Ten Lessons From a Maker by David Hieatt, Hiut Denim Co. | THE HOLBORN
Great read! “@jasonfried: This is a really good collection of insights about making things + business --> »
Slow motion video of a base jump going horribly wrong
Slow motion video of an unsuccessful base jump »
Wake Up with Pandora: Introducing the Alarm Clock on Mobile |
New Pandora for iPhone has an alarm clock with snooze. Wake to you favorite station. (Coming soon for A… »
Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies | World news | The Guardian
Jeez, @jamesrbuk's latest NSA bombshell in the Gruaniad is like a @doctorow story come to life Ne… »
Reviving Django Update posts | Weblog | Django
We're resurrecting Django Update blog posts, thanks to Curtis Maloney! »
Protesters block Google bus in S.F. Mission - SFGate Blog
More on the #GoogleBus protest via @ellenhuet »
The Wired Smart List 2013 (Wired UK)
Discover who will shaper our future: The Wired Smart List 2013 The Fifty of the world's brightest minds selection »
Spooks of Warcraft: how the NSA infiltrated gamespace - Boing Boing
Spooks of Warcraft: how the NSA infiltrated gamespace »
David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show' | World news | The Observer
This David Simon article on America is incredible and mirrors my views 100%. »
No love for gays in Putin’s Russia
Feb. 24, 2014, the day after the Olympics close, “is the day when things get really bad.” (via @stevesilberman) »
The Magazine: The Book (Year One) by Glenn Fleishman — Kickstarter
I just backed @TheMagazineApp: The Book (Year One) on @Kickstarter: (( Excited to see this, @GlennF! <3 )) »