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Ten Questions About Canada's Secret Metadata Surveillance Activities
After the big surveillance story spilling out down south, it was reported that Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) has its own metadata surveillance program with approval granted through a ministerial directive from Defence Minister Peter MacKay. Michael Geist collects ten questions we want answers for...
Ill Submarine
The third and final Beastles album, "Ill Submarine", is now out. Twenty songs mashing the Beetles with the Beastie Boys, by djBC. Dedicated to the memory of Adam Yauch.
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Google Purchases Waze
"To help you outsmart traffic, today we’re excited to announce we’ve closed the acquisition of Waze. This fast-growing community of traffic-obsessed drivers is working together to find the best routes from home to work, every day."
Feedly Transitions To Own Servers
Feedly offically leaves behind Google Reader, three weeks before the dying service's expected July 1st shutdown.
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100 Meter Scroll
Someday, browser scrolling may become an Olympic event. Time to start training up! :)
Videry
One of those "we should have thought of this" ideas, a site of curated videos for web designers!
An awesome 404 page
Pew pew pew...
Guide to HTML5 inputs
Six Revisions has a good overview of some of the new input types that'll make building and using forms online way easier!
HTML9 Responsive Boilerstop JS
Trend up onto that fad bandwagon, web gurus! :P
Apple - The New Mac Pro
Wow. Unreal design of both the new computer and the site to sell it. Love it.Daily Links
Man of Steel Trailer Number 5
The consensus in the office is that we all, really, really, really hope that this movie doesn't suck.
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Designspiration
Not really the cleverest portmanteau for the name, but nice site for shot of creativity.How To Be Happy
I am really enjoying the quality content that people are contributing to Medium. I think I will start with step 7 here. No more email first thing in the morning.DRM and HTML5: it's now or never for the Open Web
Dr Harry Halpin gives us an inside look at the debate and what he calls a "crisis of representation" as corporations look to close up the open internet.
The Border And Your Laptop
The United States say they can search your laptop at the border but they won’t tell you why. No search warrant or reasonable suspicion required :/
Came Back Haunted
The first Nine Inch Nails single in five years, from their forthcoming album, "Hesitation Marks".
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Great Books for Free from Readmill
Great deal from Readmill - many classic books for free, plus some are free for the next 24 hours that usually have a price tag.\nI was thinking of buying Icon Handbook. Guess what?! It is free today!The Launch Is Dead
"After building LayerVault for nearly two years, we have realized that the best way to build a product is to release things piecemeal and to avoid the Big Launch."
A Couple of Use Cases for Calc()
If this was better supported, this would be a fantastic solution to many stylesheet conundrums!
Design For Breakpoints
Stephan Hay walks us through some solid advice about laying out sites for responsive responsive design.
Stylify Me
Quickly gain an overview of the style guide of a site, including colours, fonts, sizing and spacing.
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Make Firefox Show Broken Images
In case you haven't added it to all your production CSS files yet.Stupid Calculations
This might be my new favourite site!Double Fine's MASSIVE CHALICE by Double Fine Productions on Kickstarter
XCom-like. Game of Thrones style kingdoms at war. Heroes. Blood-lines. Shut up and take my money already!
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No More Three Year Contracts
CRTC released a new consumer wireless code this morning, effectively ending cellphone companies' three-year contracts.As of December, consumers can terminate their contracts after two years with zero cancellation fees.Reset or Normalize
Oli Studholme writes an article about the pros and cons of CSS resets (such as Eric Meyer's ) and CSS normalizations (such as Nicolas Gallagher's and Jonathan Neal's).Anatomy Of A Logo
For its 36th anniversary, Alex Jay examines the original Star Wars logo's evolution, from pre-production to final release to its use in media over the course over the years.Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas
Wow. I'm unreasonably hopeful this is true. The possible applications are mind-boggling.
The E-Cat (Cold Fusion link above) is back, and people are still falling for it!
Well, that was short lived.
This Is Water
Pretty awesome commencement speech by David Foster Wallace, filmed and animated. Making it all the more powerful given his tragic death a few years later.
(hat tip to Guppy's Facebook page)