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https://medium.com/backchannel/exclusive-why-apple-is-still-sweating-the-details-on-imac-531a95e50c91

Early this year, the top-secret laboratory where Apple designs its Macintosh accessories was bedeviled by a crisis on tiny feet. It had to do with the…

https://syncthing.net/

peer-to-peer decentralized file-sharing

https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

self-hosted file storage, similar to owncloud

http://www.autonews.com/article/20151009/OEM06/151009815/a-stanford-professors-quest-to-fix-driverless-cars-major-flaw

Chris Gerdes, a professor at the Mechanical Engineering Design Group at Stanford University: “People often say the technology is solved, but I don't quite…

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-steve-jobs-fleeced-carly-fiorina-79d1380663de

During Carly Fiorina’s triumphant performance in the wretched carnival that was the second Republican debate, she picked the perfect moment to play the Steve…

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/right-wings-fake-history-second-amendment

The framers never intended the amendment to be construed as the right for individuals to take up arms against the Republic. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com False…

https://medium.com/@violetblue/facebook-i-want-out-e1e891975531

I have to come clean. I just lied to two people I care about very deeply. I said I was “under the weather” as an excuse for not seeing them. But I’m not ill.…

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/made-in-the-ussr-38442437/?all

View, from slightly above, of several Boeing B-29 Superfortresses flying in formation, 1945. Looking skyward on a June day in 1945, Muscovites saw a huge…

http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/good-luck-to-human-kind

A right-wing politics for the coming century is taking shape. And it’s not slowing down. It’s hard to talk seriously about something with a silly name, and…

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/os-x-10-11-el-capitan-the-ars-technica-review/

Poor OS X can’t get no respect. Apple’s Mac operating system has been playing second fiddle to the iPhone since 2007, when Leopard was delayed to make more room…

http://www.macworld.com/article/2987277/operating-systems/os-x-el-capitan-review-mac-upgrade-thats-as-solid-as-a-rock.html

macbook el capitan El Capitan, OS X 10.11, arrives for everyone September 30, but I’ve been using it all summer . In these days of free operating-system…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html

COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it’s a…

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/sep/27/black-campers-burning-man-explain-why

After three treks to Burning Man, the famously hedonistic festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, I must admit it: I am a black Burner. My black friends and…

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/made-in-the-ussr-38442437/

View, from slightly above, of several Boeing B-29 Superfortresses flying in formation, 1945. Looking skyward on a June day in 1945, Muscovites saw a huge…

https://medium.com/message/how-we-pass-the-buck-d63fcf409247

“I’m a journalist, a writer. I let the folks on the publishing side handle the business end of things. Hell, I’d be compromised if I didn’t.” “I’m a publisher.…

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-click-fraud/

Ron Amram has been in the brand marketing business for about 20 years. In the 2000s he was media director for Sprint’s prepaid cellular group, mainly figuring…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/business/international/volkswagen-test-rigging-follows-a-long-auto-industry-pattern.html

Long before Volkswagen admitted to cheating on emissions tests for millions of cars worldwide, the automobile industry, Volkswagen included, had a well-known…

https://www.wallabag.org/

Self-hosted alternative to Instapaper

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/vanishing-canada-why-were-all-losers-in-ottawas-war-on-data/

When told that his small Prairie town had, in profound ways, fallen off the statistical map of Canada, Walter Streelasky, mayor of Melville, Sask., is…

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/can-game-theory-prevent-rape/405607/

RYGER / Shutterstock One in five women who attended college during the past four years say they were sexually assaulted, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser…

http://www.imore.com/ios-9-review

iOS 9 is Apple's more intelligent, more polished operating system for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. After the radical redesign of iOS 7, which gave us a…

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brick-brick/201507/steve-albini-shows-punk-rock-ethics-are-good-business

“If you start from the premise of refusing to be an asshole, then a lot of other decisions kind of make themselves.” — Steve Albini Daniel Souza Luz/Flickr Punk…

http://moji.tekkai.com/

Japanese character reference, shows numerous typographic variants for every character.

http://foulab.org/en/user/strawdog/Calendar

Includes script for generating your own.

http://particlefever.com/

Documentary about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson

https://www.worldcat.org/

online reference library

http://regex.inginf.units.it/

I need to experiment with this

http://flowingdata.com/2015/06/16/reviving-the-statistical-atlas-of-the-united-states-with-new-data/

Clever.

http://expeditionportal.com/water-system-in-a-can/

http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mizer/pulp-o-mizer.html

Generates art in the style of a pulp science-fiction magazine cover