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Two explosions. Hundreds of injuries. A sea of backpacks to search by hand. An inside look at the worst day in the life of the Boston bomb squad.

Pretty impressive, even with modern tools.

Interesting, I've indirectly worked with the UW team on machine reading tasks.

I'm sad I need tags for Men's Rights Advocates. A subculture with no basis in reality.

Some backstory of Greenwald's motivations. Love the anecdote about Snowden's inspirations, to which Glenn said "How the fuck would I know any of that Dungeons and Dragons shit?".

I love when it comes down to lazy programmers saving keystrokes.

My first encounter with elliptic curves was in the hacking game Uplink. Good background on how they work to do public key crypto.

Even better, a breakdown of what's shown in that video.

Mmm, chamfers.

So it's not the ACA, just the terrible recovery.

Some good design points to be able to trust our software.

Cute history of a mysterious button at Apple HQ.

Probably my game of the decade for the 2000s.

They suck up all the money in the industry. The bubble has to pop soon, right?

Some good tricks here for testing.

interesting how his contract meant we've never heard of him

Fun to hear the cool stuff LDA has discovered in the field. Also pretty sure I know Mimno from SWIL.

Cool project. Crazy how long it takes to drill through bedrock.

Fascinating background on how hard Kubrick tried to get aliens into 2001.

Calvin's imagination was very influential.

I have some of these, I should pick up the others.

I am certainly considering a blood oath with you.

I love the trivia that China has embraced sci-fi for purely economic reasons of creating better engineers. Overall great points about why reading matters.

In 1965, C.E.O.s at big companies earned, on average, about twenty times as much as their typical employee. These days, they earn about two hundred and …

Linking to Scalzi's "default setting" post is a good start to convince me you're coming at the criticism from the right angle.

Cool story. I like endings like this one.

Cool, but also sad.

Nice to know he agrees with me on Snow Crash. i have more reading to do.

Met these guys at the Indie Megabooth this year, and bought both of their games.

A reminder of how forward thinking the ideas of the Revolution were, even as we remain a largely Protestant-dominated nation that grows more diverse. Amusing to hear that Jefferson was caused of being a Muslim during his presidential campaign.