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ah, memories.

I was a siren | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

queer | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Pigeon Scout

From Simon. Nice one.

Best Pizza Dough Ever Recipe – 101 Cookbooks

Full Interview: Kelly McGonigal on Willpower

3quarksdaily: Health care reform does not start in your kitchen

Good morning.

What we deserve, and cultures of dissonance « gudbuy t’jane

The Next Internet? Inside PARC’s Vision of Content Centric Networking

… he thinks the Internet has outgrown its original underpinnings as a network built on physical addresses, and that it’s time to put aside TCP/IP and start over with a completely novel approach to naming, storing, and moving data. Jacobson’s alternative is called Content Centric Networking, or CCN, and it’s grown into the single biggest internal project at PARC… If the ideas behind CCN were broadly adopted, PARC researchers believe, it would speed the delivery of content and vastly reduce the load on the networking equipment at the Internet’s core. It would also pose a challenge to the model of utility-style storage and processing that’s come to be known as cloud computing.

Unrestricted Warfare

‘Editor’s Note: The following selections are taken from “Unrestricted Warfare,” a book published in China in February 1999 which proposes tactics for developing countries, in particular China, to compensate for their military inferiority vis-à-vis the United States during a high-tech war.’

Big data is our generation’s civil rights issue, and we don’t know it – O’Reilly Radar

Thyme Lemonade – Martha Stewart Recipes

Cucumber Mint Gimlet – Martha Stewart Weddings Planning & Tools

Albert-László Barabási at TEDMED 2012

maybe.

Yo, Is This Racist? | I think it’s weird when people say you’re being just as bad as racists, as if calling a racist wack throws their entire family into institutionalized poverty or something.

… as if calling a racist wack throws their entire family into institutionalized poverty or something.

NYPD Unveils Creepy New Surveillance System Developed with Microsoft | Betabeat

the NYPD would soon begin rolling out new tech that brings together information streams like CCTV footage and criminal databases. Developed in partnership with Microsoft, it’s dubbed (with disturbing blandness) the “Domain Awareness System.” Today, Mayor Bloomberg makes it official with an announcement. However, there’s a little detail that’s new: New York gets a 30 percent cut of any future sales to other cities

DC Indymedia: The Twilight of Vanguardism

This Cute Chat Site Could Save Your Life and Help Overthrow Your Government | Threat Level | Wired.com

Indigenous Nationhood: Flanagan National Petroleum Ownership Act: Stop Big Oil Land Grab

PEP Index > PEP 20 — The Zen of Python

You will not be able to stop looking at this penis snake | Grist

Refugee from Facebook questions the social media life – Washington Post

Monogamy – Life & Style – The Independent

“The opposite of monogamy is not just promiscuity, but the absence or the impossibility of coupledom itself.”

Algorithm Aims To Predict Crime By Tracking Mobile Phones – Forbes

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