- The next generation of Instapaper.
Instapaper has been sold to BetaWorks. I spend most of my commute listening to podcasts or reading books, so I find I use the service much less than I used to. It has strong competition now from VC backed project Pocket.
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- Leading Men Age, But Their Love Interests Don't.
Graphs of leading men and the age of the ladies they are paired up with.
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- BitTorrent Sync.
BitTorrent’s Dropbox alternative goes live. Like Dropbox, Sync will keep folders on various computers in sync, with changes on one being mirrored at another. Unlike Dropbox, there is no cloud service hosting your data. It’s just being shuttled between your computers. (Of course, Dropbox plays nice with your iPhone/iPad, and does versioned backups, etc, etc.)
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- How I Met My Dead Parents.
“You think you know your mother and father, who they are, and what they mean. Then they’re gone and the photos and letters they leave behind tell an entirely different story.”
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- You're more beautiful than you think.
Kottke also links to a good counter point to the whole exercise. Dove does have some pretty genius marketing people.
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- Iranian Wrestlers.
Quite the photograph.
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- A web series on transit challenges & solutions in the GTHA.
One of our neighbours is one of the contestants. She had to take the RT!
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- In Grisly Image, a Father Sees His Son.
“With the first blast, Mr. Arredondo jumped over the fence and ran toward the people lying on the ground.”
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- YouTube: Man of Steel - Official Trailer 3.
God damn—shit just got real.
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- Game of Thrones by Nigel Evan Dennis.
A nice graphic visualization of what’s what on Game of Thrones.
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- Gitmo Is Killing Me by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel.
“I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.”
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- Dwarf Fortress, SimCity's Evil Twin.
My quest to learn how to play Dwarf Fortress continues.
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- Code Hard or Go Home.
A discussoin on Google and their contribution to WebKit, and what it means now that they’re moving development effort to Blink.
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- University of Waterloo Open Data API.
They have an API call for finding out about Goose sightings.
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- Roll for Initiative.
The Magazine covers one of my favourite hobbies, D&D. The Magazine is $2 a month and well worth the money.
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- Anonymous threatens to out boys involved in rape.
This girl’s story is depressing, and ends with her committing suicide and the Nova Scotia government and RCMP doing fuck all. I’m guessing with all the public outrage that might change.
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- How we made Knightmare.
I remember being obsessed with this show when I lived in England.
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