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Entertainment
Today on XKCD's "What If...?", Randall Munroe runs the numbers of when and whether the Internet's throughput will ever exceed FedEx's sneakernet file-transfer capacity (one interesting note here: why not treat FedEx's trucks and planes full of hard-drives and SD cards as part of the Internet? After all, you book your FedEx pickup over TCP/IP, track it over TCP/IP, and pay for it over TCP/IP).
Gadgets
As Congress discusses restricting gun magazines, one group is releasing New 3-D Printed Rifle Magazine Lets You Fire Hundreds of Rounds.
Asus Releases World’s Smallest Router
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Nintendo's Hardware Problem: "The Wii U is just a very strange product. Nintendo’s can’t compete with Microsoft and Sony on high-end gaming hardware. And they can’t compete with Apple on touchscreen-based gaming. So they seemingly did a half-assed job on both."
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Internet
"The best way to reach the highest levels of Wikipedia popularity are to be a celebrity who (a) dies, or (b) plays the Super Bowl halftime show". Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications. See also the annotated Top 25 Report.
Pirate Bay co-founder: “I can sit here and jerk off for 5 years. And I will.”
Reading & Discussion
Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself?
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Science
"Is scientific genius extinct?" That's the intriguing question posed by psychologist Dean Keith Simonton in Wednesday's publication of Nature.
Tutorials
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