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bcn··on The Truth About Aaron Swartz's "Crime"
"...an unlocked closet on an open campus, one which was also used to store personal effects by a homeless man."
bcn··on The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime”
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048820 or http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartz...
bcn··on How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency
"...talking about moving the Tide to stores “back home”—which in their case is Vietnam."

Not only popular in the US!

bcn··on CTO vs. VP of Engineering
The video to go along with the slides. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHItZ1cSNM
bcn··on Google Flights
See flyertalk for more details and potential fares. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-deals/454485-welc...
bcn··on Thieves "bug" debit card PIN pads in 63 Barnes & Noble stores
"Tampered PIN pads were discovered from stores in the following states: CA, CT, FL, IL, MA, NJ, NY, PA, RI. A complete list of specific stores follows."

http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/10_23_12_Imp...

bcn··on Ask HN: Awesome pricing pages
Something recent- http://conversionxl.com/10-principles-of-effective-pricing-p... and something from 2008-http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/13/pricing-tables-sh...
bcn··on Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
Ms. Mayer resigned from Google on Monday afternoon by telephone.

That must have been an interesting call (to Larry?) to make...

bcn··on A New HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources
In case you're wondering why it's 451... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
bcn··on Show HN: Muxamp, a unified playlist for YouTube and SoundCloud
Nice work... Thanks for sharing.

The only question I have is if the playlist URL might become problematic with longer lists? That might mean you would have to persist something serverside, but otherwise, very slick!

bcn··on Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
"...is based on interviews...with current and former American, European and Israeli officials... None would allow their names to be used..."

Not exactly confirmed, but at least there are a few more details being (intentionally?) leaked. Good ole NYT is always ready to spill the words of unnamed 'officials', but the more interesting question is why, or why now?

bcn··on Pizza Cook job listing at Apple
Yes, my favorite VPN had nothing to do with networks. You might find some of this interesting, if you haven't seen it already... http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm

edit (in case you don't know): VPN -> pizzanapoletana.org/index_eng.php

bcn··on What provides the background music to your code?
Music: Soundcloud FTW! http://soundcloud.com/dj-robert-rankin & http://soundcloud.com/mungoshifi

Talk: www.youtube.com/show/thisweekinstartups

bcn··on Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/AEM.00521-11v1.pdf
bcn··on Facebook's S-1 Filing
http://www.scribd.com/doc/80163402/Facebook-S-1
bcn··on Senator Franken breaks his silence on PIPA.
Too little too late... And, this quote (from the article):

"If we don’t protect our intellectual property, international criminals — as well as legitimate businesses like payment processors and ad networks — will continue to profit dishonestly from the work these Americans are doing every day. And that puts these millions of jobs at serious risk."

...is some serious FUD.

bcn··on What everyone in the SOPA debate is missing: IP is not a fundamental right
When the discussion of rights comes up, I think that George Carlin has some wise words on the subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-R8T1SuG4

"...Either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all." -George Carlin

bcn··on Can you build beautiful sites with Twitter Bootstrap? Hell yes
We did our own implementation, but as you've seen, it's not possible to distribute on drupal.org. More details can be found at http://drupal.org/node/1255934.
bcn··on Can you build beautiful sites with Twitter Bootstrap? Hell yes
Bootstrap on drupal: http://thestreethub.com/
bcn··on Google Launches Flight Search
Flights from an airport: http://www.google.com/search?q=flights+from+SFO

Flights to an airport http://www.google.com/search?q=flights+to+SFO

Change SFO to airport code of your choice.

bcn··on Lulzsec Hack's PBS in Response to Frontline Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/wikileaks/
bcn··on Osama bin Laden Is Dead
Watch at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-delivers-stat...
bcn··on Ceglia v. Zuckerberg returns, with a bang - biglaw representation, lots of email
DLA Piper means some smart people are starting to believe Ceglia. How likely is it that folks like Kip Hall http://www.dlapiper.com/kip_hall and other partners at DLA would take a case like this as a pure troll?
bcn··on 27C3: Adventures in analyzing Stuxnet (Bruce Dang from Microsoft)
"Never thought I'd enjoy a talk from Microsoft so much" - Audience member comment

This sums up my feelings as well.

bcn··on James Burke’s Connections: A BBC History of Innovation
Here's the Youtube channel link: http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb

Big thanks to the OP for sharing, though my productivity is about to nose dive.

bcn··on EBay acquires brands4friends for $200 million
Skype (and to a lesser extent meetup and stumbleupon) are pretty good examples, no? However, Most of the acquisitions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay have made some sense IMO.
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