A new look at the American liberation of France. Waiting for the Spielberg version of this.  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/books/rape-by-american-soldiers-in-world-war-ii-france.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 … h/t @bangpound

I read somewhere that the point of ancient skepticism was that our most fundamental connection with the world is not intellectual.

This 19-gigapixel NASA flyover of a strip of Earth from Russia to S. Africa!  http://bit.ly/10IjTbK  We have the best planet.

"The Development of the C Language" @  http://bit.ly/18WXQFS  by Dennis Ritchie.. a paper every programmer should read.

Was watching Eurovision but I found a video of puppies playing in the snow instead so  http://youtu.be/SL4l32MlDNE 

Why XML in XMLHttpRequest? It was the fastest way to ship it...  http://bit.ly/13wyaKl 

“Never learn to do anything: if you don’t learn, you’ll always find someone else to do it for you.” —Mark Twain.

Front end development isn't easier.  http://www.quora.com/Startups/Why-are-front-end-developers-so-high-in-demand-at-startups-if-front-end-development-is-relatively-easier-than-other-fields-of-engineering …

My newest million dollar idea involves crowdsourcing. So, who has a million dollar idea for me?

Photo: Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in...  http://tmblr.co/ZohAbykuhymi 

#1: Justin Bieber is to music what Justin Bieber is to Marine Biology.

GOTO was evil because we asked, "how did I get to this point of execution?" Mutability leaves us with, "how did I get to this state?"

An experiment in paying villagers in one of India’s poorest states an unconditional basic income  http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income …

Do Read this wonderful review essay by Dilip Simeon of @rahulpandita 's Our Moon has Blood Clots via @ghoshamitav  http://northeastreview.com/2013/05/04/d/ 

great tutorial on implementing a TCP proxy in Go:  http://bit.ly/18Fh1Ba  ... with Go channels, of course.

The definitive answer to the question "Could you create a rock so big even you couldn't lift it?" is: put the bong down and get a job.

Do Read: Gopal Gandhi's take on Mukesh Ambani's monstrous Antilla and his threat perception  http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130501/jsp/opinion/story_16834097.jsp#.UYIHF7XT_W_ …

U. S. A. #usa pic.twitter.com/pnd7ImtTjX

RT @helenlewis: Big shoutout to whoever's reading one of my feminist pieces after googling "Www.most huge hard tit in world"

'Time Crystals' Could Upend Physicists' Theory of Time  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/time-crystals/ …