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Facebook Lexicon counts occurrences of words and phrases on Walls over time

[via:Waxy]

Bevara Internet: icke frihetshatande personer berättar vad Internet betyder för dem

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China using tens of thousands of paid “internet commentators” to control public opinion

Website discussing roadblocks and other violations of privacy in the USA

The site’s blog is worth subscribing to if you’re interested in unsettling news from the USA.

[via:No Agenda]

Hilarious Ladybird book photoshop: How It Works …. The Computer

…in which we learn that only women may feed computers.

See also: The Ladybird Book of the Policeman

Santa Claus ruins party, kills eight, burns down house in L.A.

[via:Mummila]

Achievement Unlocked: A game of Achievement Unlocking

Epic Metagames.

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Pope Benedict XVI’s Xmas reminder: defending heterosexuality as important as saving the world’s rainforests from destruction

What an idiot. Saving the world from heterosexuality would definitely save the rainforests in the long run.

See also: BBC

TorsoPants!

Contains 15.8% more awesome than Zombo.com.

Saudi court rejects eight year old girl’s divorce plea

Laptop decoration ideas

All hail the mighty logo stickers.

Gift idea(?): “Stop Talking” cards

[via:Merlin]

Synthetic hybrid of protein and DNA, could be basis of new class of drugs and artificial life unlike anything in nature

“A synthetic molecule called peptide nucleic acid (PNA) combines the information-storage properties of DNA with the chemical stability of a proteinlike backbone.”

[via:Slashdot]

Jukka Hankamäki: Hallitus syö yksityisyyden suojaa

“Tuija Brax mokasi jo sähköisen äänestyksen kanssa, ja tässä olisi toinen syy hänen eroonsa. On huolestuttavaa, että Suomessa ministeri joutuu eromaan, jos hän tekstailee vapaa-aikanaan stripparille, mutta perustuslain rikkomiseen tähtäävää ministeriä ei potkaista pois virasta. Lähdön paikka olisi ollut myös muutamilla muilla naiskiintiöministereillä, kuten Suvi Lindénillä ja Anne Holmlundilla, kuten olen jo aiemmin todennut.”

[via:Faust3]

Wired magazine founder predicting the machine and entity of the future Web

Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired speculating about the Hivemind International that’s just around the corner. Video recording from EG 2007.

[via:High Scalability]