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Scroll starts "STAR WARS EPISODE VII..." Leans over and whispers "What happened in the other movies?"

FAA Grounds ‘Uber for Planes’ http://motherboard.vice.com/read/faa-grounds-uber-for-planes … via @motherboard

First thought was: How did a character encoding issue get that far? pic.twitter.com/TIxrbLcylO

Big drones with nets capture smaller drones in Tokyo no-fly zone. But where does it end?! http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/tokyos-drone-squad-will-deploy-10ft-drones-armed-with-nets-to-police-the-sky/ …

History of Hackers including great interviews http://www.slashfilm.com/hackers-oral-history …

Learn flexbox via Flexbox Froggy http://flexboxfroggy.com/ . I learned & relearned various interim flexbox names so it may be too late for me.

Finished Breaking Bad finale last night. As last person to do so, feel free to now discuss spoilers. Thank you for your patience.

Next up: hacking phones with inaudible sounds that exploit bugs in this software http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-that-use-inaudible-sound-to-link-your-phone-tv-tablet-and-pc/ …

Old time tintype photograph of Adam Savage looks really good. Photographer Michael Shindler explains & demos process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_gQgkCfj7w …

SMBC on the topic of bacon cancer http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3930 …

Cop pulls over car for driving 10mph under speed limit to find no driver in self driving car and issues no ticket. http://boingboing.net/2015/11/13/cop-pulls-over-google-self-dri.html …

Yay, Mario Maker is getting web portal. Seems absurd Mario Maker levels currently don't have offical web presence http://kotaku.com/mario-maker-is-getting-a-better-way-to-find-good-course-1742223816 …

Hit "I forgot my password", and now staring dumbfounded at email response that contains my actual password.

CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years http://www.theonion.com/article/cia-realizes-its-been-using-black-highlighters-all-1848 …

Missing planet Vulcan predicted by Newtonian physics+Mercury's orbit. Decades of mistaken Vulcan sightings before GR http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/science-doesnt-work-the-way-you-think-it-does/414744/ …

Dear Mario Maker makers of 'expert' levels. If your level immediately kills me with no warning, your level is bad and you should feel bad.

Isn't Gmail's new Smart Reply feature act one of Avogadro Corp? http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html …

And how do I express that I wouldn't care if they changed into ? http://gizmodo.com/how-to-replace-twitters-dumb-heart-with-the-emoji-of-yo-1740302661 … https://twitter.com/BringStarsBack/status/661595143921864705 …

Setting up 2FA on all my accounts gives off temporary illusion that I've really got my shit together.

Crowd sourced morality on automated cars handling collisions: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/ … 3 laws is thin API over Amzn Mechanical Turk service.