Playing God: On Death, Motherhood and Creating (Artificial) Life

http://kotaku.com/5880635/playing-god-on-death-motherhood-and-creating-artificial-life

Rapid Cell Regeneration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m129fV_h9pk

Holding Birth Control Hostage

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/04/doctors-holding-birth-control-hostage

George Hotz, Sony, and Anonymous Hacker Wars : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/07/120507fa_fact_kushner

The Self-Made Myth

http://www.alternet.org/visions/155149/the_self-made_myth:_debunking_conservatives%27_favorite_--_and_most_dangerous_--_fiction_/

Copyleft?

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html

I find it rather frustrating when people arguing for greater freedom decide to be just as restrictive regarding distribution of their software as those arguing for control. Ultimately, both systems produce software that is useless to many businesses and entrepreneurs. If I want to make a game with the intent to sell it, I need software I'm allowed to sell, not something restricted to being used in free works. Such restrictions greatly hamper the spread of software tools, slowing down progress. (Copyright restricts distribution to owner permitted methods, Copyleft restricts distribution to free methods).

I much prefer the WTFPL.
If you intend to sell it, use copyright. Otherwise, just put it out there for all to use, so it can spread as far as possible. Copyleft is just another way of using copyright to set rules on how software and other works can be used.

P.S. Copyright laws in general need to be heavily reworked.

EVE Evolved: Building stronger communities

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/06/17/eve-evolved-building-stronger-communities/

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

E-mail needs this:

One thing I think emails need: a way for an email to tell the email server (like gmail) to request another login verification before allowing the person to view it. This could prevent a stranger from viewing certain emails if the owner forgets to log off when they leave the computer.

The Definition of Insanity is...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-therapy/200907/the-definition-insanity-is

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women

http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html

Wait, what? Really? That's... scary.

Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity

http://www.alternet.org/visions/154518/americans_are_worked_to_death:_how_going_back_to_40-hour_weeks_will_save_our_sanity,_health_and_productivity

DayZ – What have I become?

http://leviathyn.com/blog/review/dayz-review-what-have-i-become/

Not Okay

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/5436-Not-Okay

How I learned to stop worrying and love Anonymous

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-anonymous/article2366626/

Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2: a “scientific” explanation

http://www.alexc.me/a-scientific-explanation-why-diablo-3-is-less-addictive-than-diablo-2/417/

The 8-Hour Sleep Myth: How I Learned That Everything I Knew About Sleep Was Wrong

http://www.alternet.org/health/154424/the_8-hour_sleep_myth:_how_i_learned_that_everything_i_knew_about_sleep_was_wrong/

The Science of Happiness...

http://www.alternet.org/health/90411/the_science_of_happiness:_is_it_all_bullshit/

A Lengthy Analysis of D3 (specifically, it's flaws)

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5573701013

AI designs its own video game

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328554.900-ai-designs-its-own-video-game.html

Anonymous ‘Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization on Earth’

http://www.virtualthreat.com/2012/05/18/anonymous-might-well-be-the-most-powerful-organization-on-earth/

Q: It seems like there’s a war going on between hacktivists or information activists and law enforcement. (At least 40 alleged members of Anonymous have been arrested around the world in the last year.) Who do you think is winning right now?
A: I think it’s a stalemate at the moment. I think eventually we’ll win. I’ve always believed that right will always prevail. But at the moment the arrests have had a chilling effect on the movement. For a 30-minute online protest I’m facing 15 years in a penitentiary. For the moment that’s the only indictment against me but I expect there will be more. And it’s not just about the potential penalty but it’s the trial itself for which they delivered a terabyte of discovery. That’s about 150,000 pages for a 30-minute protest. That means my trial will be two years long and during that time I’m under strict surveillance by the FBI. I can’t access Twitter, Facebook or IRCs (Internet Relay Chats)– I can’t contact any known member of Anonymous – who are about 50,000 people around the world.

So basically it shuts me down as an activist. Even if I prevail in court, I’m still shut down for two years.

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