Motorola announces Project Ara, an open hardware platform with modular components à la Phonebloks. (Via reddit.com.)

StopWatching.us “fatally compromised by the prominent leadership and participation of the Libertarian Party and other libertarian student groups [who stand] in direct opposition to almost everything I believe in as a social democrat.”

“As consumers, we should understand ad-avoidance as a way of setting a price on our time and attention. For the past century, we’ve arguably been selling it too cheap, trading it all for a few decent sitcoms and sports programming.”

Wikipedia’s list of musical works in unusual time signatures.

Scaling up an image with ImageMagick but without anti-aliasing.

I created a large version of my good ole p3k logo using the following ImageMagick command:

$ convert p3k-logo.gif -filter Point -resize 200 +antialias p3k-logo-200.png

Via www.alecjacobson.com.

“Supporting IE8 on our responsive platform means we cannot develop using these technologies natively: [List of cool stuff]” – (Via sebastian-werner.com.)

Hyperboria and the Darknet.

We should probably just start calling the Web the Spynet. (‘What are you up to this morning?’ ‘Nothing much, just shopping for some books on the Spynet.’)

Kite invite, anyone?

The dream of any conspiracy theorist.

“To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of conservatives show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo the law, the Affordable Care Act, since its passage in 2010 — waged by a galaxy of conservative groups with more money, organized tactics and interconnections than is commonly known.”