Farewell, we hardly knew ya.

Animals That Went Extinct In The 21st Century.

Testing for voter rigging in small polling stations.

We develop a statistical test to quantify the extent to which the results of a particular election display traces of voter rigging. Our key hypothesis is that small polling stations are more susceptible to voter rigging because it is easier to identify opposing individuals, there are fewer eyewitnesses, and interested parties might reasonably expect fewer visits from election observers.

The State of Pando 2017: Dropping the paywall on stories from the Silicon Valley Swamp.

As of today, we’re dropping our paywall on all stories that involve harassment, discrimination and any of the other swampy behavior plaguing Silicon Valley. Those stories will be available to anyone visiting Pando, without needing to pay a dime.

Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment.

More than two dozen women in the technology start-up industry spoke to The Times in recent days about being sexually harassed. Ten of them named the investors involved, often providing corroborating messages and emails, and pointed to high-profile venture capitalists such as Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital and Dave McClure of 500 Startups.

25 Frauen, deren Erfindungen unser Leben verändern.

Die Gewinnerinnen des 25-Frauen-Awards von EDITION F stehen fest! Zum vierten Mal haben wir den Award verliehen. 2017 hat unsere Community gemeinsam mit der Expertenjury 25 Frauen ausgewählt, deren Erfindungen unsere Welt besser machen. Das sind sie!

If only I could find Bryony Marks’ goosebumping outro song of the episode “Scroogin’” of the wonderful Australian TV show “Please Like Me”…

Update: Wow, so nice: the artist herself contacted me and provided an audio file. Thanks, Bryony!

I wrote an Extension for Visual Studio Code: Syntax support for Helma’s *.skin files.

The Prince Podcast – Susan Rogers Interview.

Susan Rogers is an American professor who worked as a sound engineer for several musical artists (…) most famously alongside Prince on albums such as Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times.

Search Interactive Mind Maps to learn anything.

A team of developers just launched an open source search engine that will show you how to learn pretty much anything. It works by clustering resources into “mind maps.” (via medium.freecodecamp.org)

Welcome to DuckDuckHack!

With your knowledge of the Web and some code, you can help DuckDuckGo become the best search engine!