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The Winklevoss twins have created and filed an SEC S1 for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust for people who wish to invest in a fund that invests in Bitcoins. They also funded BitInstant, a site for brokering sales of bitcoins.
comment posted at 5:39 PM on Jul-4-13
comment posted at 6:25 PM on Jul-4-13

Season 1 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is an anime TV series from 2002. The series takes place in 2030 in Japan after World Wars 2 & 3. The story centers on the activities of Section 9, an anti-cyber cribe and anti-terrorist group. The continuing bad guy of the series is the cyber terrorist known as the Laughing Man. Here is Season 1 on YouTube:
comment posted at 4:10 AM on Jul-4-13
comment posted at 4:51 AM on Jul-4-13

Idibon, a company that specializes in language processing, decided to rank the world's languages to see which had the most unusual features. The winner was Chalcatongo Mixtec, a language spoken by 6000 people in Mexico. The most normal language? Hindi.
comment posted at 9:19 PM on Jul-2-13

James Cameron is being sued by Roger Dean. Best known as the creator of classic Yes album art, artist Roger Dean has filed a complaint against James Cameron and 20th Century Fox seeking more than $50 million in damages over Avatar. Full 17 page complaint here.
comment posted at 2:16 PM on Jul-3-13
comment posted at 2:30 PM on Jul-3-13

K i d s n i p p e t s .
comment posted at 9:05 PM on Jul-1-13

Canada has lost its famous politeness. With oil and gas now accounting for approximately a quarter of its export revenue, over the last decade Canada has not so quietly become an international mining center and a rogue petrostate.
comment posted at 1:31 PM on Jul-1-13

F**k, I Need Some New Swear Words: Too many curse words strengthen the kind of social structures that we should be dismantling.
comment posted at 11:46 AM on Jul-1-13

A growing number of American workers are confronting a frustrating predicament on payday: to get their wages, they must first pay a fee.
comment posted at 12:35 PM on Jul-1-13

According to The Guardian and Der Spiegel, the NSA has bugged EU government offices in Washington and New York, installed spyware on EU embassy communications equipment, and used the NATO headquarters in Brussels as a base to infiltrate the phone and computer networks of the EU's Justus Lipsius building. In addition, the NSA is targeting German civilian communications, monitoring ca. 500 million phone calls, emails and text messages per day.
European leaders are not amused- these revelations could endanger a trade pact worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
comment posted at 8:31 PM on Jun-30-13
comment posted at 8:42 PM on Jun-30-13
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comment posted at 11:30 PM on Jun-30-13

Game of Thrones character names according to some Imgur user's dad.
comment posted at 2:00 PM on Jun-30-13
comment posted at 4:53 PM on Jun-30-13

To promote their latest dance record, the record company mailed out a 12" single. But how could those who received it play it? This is their solution. [Warning: this is technically a promo for an artist and a small record label - I just think its an interesting use of technology]
comment posted at 11:07 AM on Jun-30-13
comment posted at 11:30 AM on Jun-30-13
comment posted at 2:31 PM on Jun-30-13

The Problem with Wonder Woman - An iconic DC superhero on the level of Batman and Superman, her potential remains competitively untapped. Can Grant Morrison And Yanick Paquette’s Wonder Woman: Earth One Help? Or is Perez’ Wonder Woman the Gold standard?
comment posted at 2:50 AM on Jun-29-13

Today, Danish shipping line Maersk took delivery of the new World's Largest Ship from Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. The M/V Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, a 165,000 metric ton container vessel, that is too big (particularly with her 48 foot loaded draft) to call on most North American ports, employs novel design and operating strategies to radically lower shipping costs. First in the new "Triple E" class of 20 similar ships on order by Maersk, the Mc-Kinney Møller will initially support container trade between Asian and European markets.
comment posted at 3:10 AM on Jun-29-13

Malcolm Gladwell on the biography of economist Albert O. Hirschman.
comment posted at 2:54 AM on Jun-29-13

An Open Letter to Paula Deen, from culinary historian Michael William Twitty.
comment posted at 1:23 PM on Jun-28-13

Imagine two politicians: One preaches fear and excessive "security," while the other says terrorism is a negligible risk. They hold, like me, that risk is part of life, and that while some security is necessary, we should mostly just refuse to be terrorized and get on with our lives. Fast-forward 10 years. If I'm right and there have been no more terrorist attacks, the preacher of fear takes credit for keeping us safe. But if a terrorist attack has occurred, my government career is over.
comment posted at 12:31 PM on Jun-28-13
comment posted at 3:06 PM on Jun-28-13

@kyledrake "I want to make another Geo cities. Free web hosting, static HTML only, 10MB limit, anonymous, uncensored." And with that tweet, NeoCities was born. Browse existing sites, or create your own.
comment posted at 12:57 PM on Jun-28-13
comment posted at 1:46 PM on Jun-28-13

How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?A thoughtful essay about why companies and individuals shouldn't trust Microsoft in light of the recent leaks.
comment posted at 3:21 AM on Jun-29-13

Brand New evaluates the SC&P logo
comment posted at 11:36 AM on Jun-28-13
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comment posted at 3:13 PM on Jun-28-13

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