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North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims - The Interceptfirstlook.org
The overwhelming narrative disseminated by the U.S. media was clear: North Korea was responsible for the hack, because the government said it was. -
Google Strikes an Upbeat Note With FCC on Title IIblogs.wsj.com
In a rare public comment by Google on net neutrality, the Internet giant this week said it sees a silver lining in the potential to be regulated like a telecom company. -
Brands pay Twitter to falsely appear in your following listgigaom.com
A Twitter advertising technique is perturbing people. Promoted brands like MasterCard and IFC are appearing in the list of accounts some users follow, even if they don’t actually follow them. Sources familiar with the company’s advertising strategy tel... -
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The Genius and Faith of Faraday and Maxwellthenewatlantis.com
The religious commitments of the great scientists are often dismissed as vestiges of more superstitious times. Ian H. Hutchinson offers a window into the intellectual and religious lives of the two greatest nineteenth-century electricians and shows how... -
The name of the fungus | Science Newssciencenews.org
A rebellion has broken out against the traditional way of naming species in the peculiar, shape-shifting world of fungi. -
Tales of C++ - Interludetalesofcpp.fusionfenix.com
One year down the road, 2014 has gone by but not without modifications to the C++ lands. C++14 was completed, and Clang has already reached full conformance! But it's not the end of the road, while the Technical Specification (TS) documents continue to... -
This year, I resolve to ban laptops from my classroomwashingtonpost.com
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HomeControlselfcoded.com
Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. © Matthias Hochgatterer - entire.spacebar.org
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Don’t Write Off ET Quite Yet - Issue 101: In Our Nature - Nautilusnautil.us
Here’s a riddle. We’ve never seen any, and we don’t know if they exist, but we think about them, debate them, and shout at each… -
CIA takes blame for more than half of UFO sightings in late 1950s and 60sventurebeat.com
Because U-2 planes flew higher than thought possible, many who saw them said they spotted alien spaceships. That was a highlight of the agency's ten most-read documents of 2014. - mail.openjdk.java.net
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nateberkopec/gist:11dbcf0ee7f2c08450eagist.github.com
RubySpec is dead, long live RubySpec! - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others. - avc.com
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Target’s ‘Annie’ ads spark controversy, prompt petition over lack of diversitydavidseymouriii.blog.com
More than 10,000 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for the company to remove ads that feature white girls as Annie. The character from the movie musical released Dec. ... -
BMJ Blogs: The BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Smith: Dying of cancer is the best deathblogs.bmj.com
Luis Buñuel, filmmaker, surrealist, iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary, thought a lot about death. “Sometimes,” he wrote in 1982, a year before he died at 83, “I think the quicker the better—like the death of my friend Max Aub, who died all of a s... - substack.net
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