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Drone's eye view of Burning Man 2014 Beautifully shot and edited, a rarely seen vista on one of the most amazing places in the world. Read the rest... History of mountain biking Collectors Weekly looks at the birth of mountain biking and the legendary 1976 Repack race in Marin, California: In France, from 1951 to 1956, a group of 20 or so French cyclists founded Velo Cross Club Parisian, whose members performed jumps and other tricks on off-road bicycles outfitted with modified moped suspension forks to absorb front-end vibrations. Read the rest... "99 Red Balloons" played on balloons Andrew Huang plays Nena's 1983 jam "99 Red Balloons" on actual red balloons. But not 99 of them. Read the rest... The Nicest Place on the Internet Continuous-playing short clips of people blowing kisses and giving hugs to their cameras (warning, autoplays music). The Nicest Place on the Internet (via Waxy) Read the rest... Two companies that tried to bury bad news around Apple's big event Not so fast! Snapchat settled a legal battle with a cofounder who it ousted from the company. Tinder paid out likewise to who a cofounder who left after accusing an executive of sexual harassment; the executive has left the company. Read the rest... Kickstarting A is for Zebra, subversive alphabets by Crap Hound's Sean Tejaratchi It's a twisted, genius alphabet book in the style of Tejaratchi's (more) wonderful found-art collage zine Crap Hound, and published by the brilliant Portland zine store Reading Frenzy; $20 gets you your own copy. Read the rest... William Gibson reads Neuromancer It's from the original audio edition of his seminal 1984 novel, which is sadly no longer available, though it's easy enough to find bootlegs online. Read the rest... Blogging History: NSA phone surveillance appalls FISA judge; Distance ed as Zork One year NSA reveals that it illegally gathered thousands of phone records, to the appalled astonishment of FISA court judge: As the Snowden leaks about NSA surveillance continue to trickle out, it's easy to miss the fact that the NSA is now releasing hundreds of pages of damning documents about its activities. Read the rest... Join the global fight for a neutral net: Big Telecom vs THE WORLD Today, a coalition of activist groups from all over the world kick off a global campaign for a neutral Internet where big telcoms aren't allowed to decide which websites you can visit based on how much bribery they can extort -- it's called Big Telecom vs the World and it needs your help! Read the rest... Penis-shaped pieces of candy shock and offend New Zealanders Jacqui Hawkins is among the many locals whose sense of calm and wellbeing was shattered by the green sugar cocks: "I don't find anything amusing about it at all. I find it disgusting." The candy was designed for sale in England and mistakenly sent elsewhere. Read the rest... The most anxious hour of the day Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. is the hour "we feel most anxious, depressed, and alone," according to data from Crisis Text. Read the rest... Arctic shipwreck found after 170 years The missing expedition of Sir John Franklin, lost in the fabled Northwest Passage in 1846, is "one of Canada's greatest mysteries." One of its two vessels has been found, apparently intact, with sonar. Read the rest... What's in Amazon's returns bin? Phone cases. At Reddit, an Amazon warehouse worker reports on the stuff you send back: "I have nightmares where I'm buried in Samsung Galaxy S5 cases" Read the rest... From the Front Lines of the War on Seat Reclines Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH a dispatch from the war on seat reclining is sent back to Dearest Helen. Read the rest... Today is #InternetSlowdown Day All across the Internet, websites and services are staging a mass denial of service attack on themselves, to show the world what the world would look like if Big Cable and AT&T solicit bribes to decide which websites you can reach quickly, and which ones are going to go in the Internet slow-lane. Read the rest... Coup: a delightfully vicious little card game set in a futuristic dystopia Coup blends the bluff and uncertainty of Hold 'Em with the aggressive calling-out of Bullshit and a touch of deeper strategy, says Jon Seagull. Read the rest... BBC tells Australian govt to treat VPN users as pirates BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK public broadcaster, has told an Australian government proceeding that people who use VPNs a lot should be assumed to be engaged in piracy, that ISPs should surveil their users, that websites should be censored by Chinese-style national firewalls, and that the families of people accused of watching TV the wrong way should be disconnected from the Internet. Read the rest... Madeline Ashby's Hieroglyph story: "By the Time We Get To Arizona" The Hieroglyph anthology was created by Neal Stephenson, challenging sf writers to imagine futures where ambitious technological projects improved the human condition. Read the rest... Tabnapping: a new phishing attack [2010] Aza Raskin's Tabnapping is a proof-of-concept for a fiendish attack: a tab that waits until you're not watching, then turns itself into a convincing Google login screen that you assume you must have opened. Read the rest... Give Me Fiction: the Podcast We are proud to share Give Me Fiction, a prose reading series hosted by stand-up comic Ivan Hernandez. The first Sunday of every month at Lost Weekend Video, a group of comedians, writers, and artists read pieces based on a theme. Read the rest... Futility Closet: mystery of the well-dressed corpse On Dec. 1, 1948, a well-dressed corpse appeared on a beach in South Australia. Despite 66 years of investigation, no one has ever been able to establish who he was, how he came to be there, or even how he died. Read the rest... Boars, Gore, and Swords: Penny Dreadful This week we're completely lacking in Boars, but are up to our mangled necks in Gore and Swords. Ivan and Red take a break from the realms of Westeros and Essos and head for 19th century London to re-cap Showtime and Sky's Penny Dreadful, created and written by John Logan. Read the rest... Card tricks with Willie Nelson We agree with The World's Best Ever's statement about Willie Nelson: "Without a doubt, one of the top 3 people we'd want to hang out with on earth." Read the rest... Seemingly intoxicated Rob Ford gives subway press-conference In theory, he's completed rehab, has stopped his substance abuse, and is ready to serve another term as mayor [Link] (via Accordion Guy) Read the rest... Dietary supplement company sues website for providing a forum for dissatisfied customers Roca Labs sells dubious snake-oil like a "Gastric Bypass Alternative," and their terms of service forbid their customers from ever complaining; they say that Pissedconsumer.com committed "tortious interference" by providing a place where disgruntled buyers could air their grievances. Read the rest... Norwegian atheist velociraptor trike: the movie Remember Norwegian artist Markus Moestue's velociraptor trike, which he pedalled cross-country to protest religious education in state schools? Well, now there's a video documenting the trip. Read the rest... Mel Brooks cement prank at the Chinese Theater Mel Brooks put his eleven fingers in cement yesterday at Hollywood's famed Chinese Theater. (Today) Read the rest... Stellar bargains at Top Shelf Comix's $3 sale! One of the world's great and indispensible indie comix publishers (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls, Nemo, From Hell, March, Essex County, Swallow Me Whole, etc) selling huge amounts of inventory at deep discounts, with 125 titles for $1-$3, and for over 180 titles, you can get the digital comic thrown in for just a dollar or two more. (Thanks, Chris!) Read the rest... House with a supersonic jet in its back yard Gautam Trivedi spotted this bit of real-world Russo-cyberpunk: a supersonic jet retired to the back yard of a stately Russian mansion. Read the rest... Amazon vs Hachette is nothing: just WAIT for the audiobook wars! In my latest Locus column, Audible, Comixology, Amazon, and Doctorow's First Law, I unpick the technological forces at work in the fight between Amazon and Hachette, one of the "big five" publishers, whose books have not been normally available through Amazon for months now, as the publisher and the bookseller go to war over the terms on which Amazon will sell books in the future. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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