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  • Geoguessr  (geoguessr.com)

    See a Google Street View at a random point in the world, guess where it is on a map.

  • Guillaume Lorentz dances to Macklemore's 'Can't Hold Us'  (www.youtube.com)

    I absolutely love the energy

  • 'Gitmo is Killing Me'  (www.nytimes.com)

    A chilling story told by a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. I hope that someday we’ll look back and wonder how anything like this could have been possible.

    I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.
    […]
    The situation is desperate now. All of the detainees here are suffering deeply. At least 40 people here are on a hunger strike. People are fainting with exhaustion every day. I have vomited blood.
    And there is no end in sight to our imprisonment. Denying ourselves food and risking death every day is the choice we have made.
    I just hope that because of the pain we are suffering, the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantánamo before it is too late.

  • Computer program that learns to play classic NES games  (www.youtube.com)

    The program is given a set of inputs from a human playing the game, and analyzes the RAM to define success in the game. It then plays the game with no knowledge of the rules, and works incredibly well.

  • North Korea missle launch delayed by Windows 8  (www.newyorker.com)

    #OnionOrActualHeadline

    The announcement from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) did not indicate a new scheduled time for a missile test, saying only that it was “working with Windows 8 support to resolve the issue.”

    A source close to the North Korean regime reported that Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is furious about the Windows 8 problems and is considering a number of options, including declaring war on Microsoft.

  • Daft Punk Skrillex Remix - Conte  (www.youtube.com)

    I’ve always been a fan of Jack’s solo work and his work as part of Pomplamoose. His new electronic sound is excellent as well.

  • Skycons - Free HTML5 weather icons  (darkskyapp.github.io)

    Skycons is a set of ten animated weather glyphs, procedurally generated by JavaScript using the HTML5 canvas tag.

  • Postach.io uses Evernote as a blogging platform  (postach.io)

    I personally am worried by the dependency on Evernote, but it seems like a great way to get a web presence if you’re a heavy user already.

  • John Frusciante - Wayne  (johnfrusciante.com)

    John Frusciante releases a song in memory of his friend.

  • Cinemagraphs  ()

    These mostly-still images with subtle animations add a great new depth to photographs.

    See more at Jamie Beck’s Tumblr