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# Featured: SOPA

Lots and lots of SOPA articles this week. Here is a couple of the best and still relevant ones.

• Stop SOPA, save the Internet (boingboing.net) comments
• Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly (thenextweb.com) comments
• Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone calls to representatives (staff.tumblr.com) comments

# Selected Articles

• Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21
  (techcrunch.com) comments
• Cracking Siri
  (applidium.com) comments
• I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone
  (kalzumeus.com) comments
• USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station
  (blog.laptopmag.com) comments
• A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history
  (matthewweathers.com) comments
• Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms
  (insidesearch.blogspot.com) comments
• Modern Web Applications are Here
  (lucumr.pocoo.org) comments
• Instagram Engineer Challenge solved with Javascript
  (feval.info) comments
• How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords
  (blog.asmartbear.com) comments
• "I would dial the 300 baud dial-up number, and scream the carrier tone."
  (blogs.msdn.com) comments
• Why we're working our young people too hard
  (lkd.cc) comments

# Ask HN

• Looking for Australian Startups to feature on my new blog
• Ask HN: Why do big companies tend to only build with Java?
• Ask HN: What are you reading right now?

# Classics

• Dirty Coding tricks used in Production Video Games comments
• Ask HN: "Basic SEO"? comments
• Battle of the Business Cards comments

# Recent startups/projects/apps launched

• InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had comments
• Don't like your job? Get discovered by other companies anonymously. comments
• Shapecatcher - draw the unicode character you want comments
• Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN? comments
• The Manhattan Grid extended to every point on Earth comments
• OS.js (JavaScript Operating System) comments
• Fakecall: helping polite introverts stay productive comments
• Show HN: Tunebox, Dropbox + iPhone = cloud music service comments
• Hacker News Instant comments
• Show HN: ClassPager lets teachers send reminders and run live Q&A over SMS. comments

# Code/Dev

• Spark - in your shell. comments
• JQuery Mobile 1.0 comments
• Isaacs: try/catch is an anti-pattern comments
• Machine Vision made Easy - SimpleCV comments
• Steve Losh's .vimrc comments
• JSZip - Create .zip files with Javascript comments
• Backbone on Rails: a ruby gem based on thoughtbot's 'Backbone.js on Rails' comments

# Design

• Can you build beautiful sites with Twitter Bootstrap? Hell yes comments
• Amazing HTML5 terminal comments
• Technologies often called part of HTML5 that aren't comments
• Have a Flash SWF File? convert it to HTML5 with Google Swiffy comments

# Books

• List of freely available programming books comments
• An introduction to Stock & Options for the Tech Entrepreneur or Startup Employee (PDF) comments
• 9 books that helped us reach a million downloads comments

# Training/Classes

• Stanford to host more online classes (CS-101, HCI, NLP and more) comments
• Stanford releases latest iOS 5 programming class comments
• Free Stanford Class with Steve Blank comments

# Wikipedia

• Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia comments
• Parrondo's paradox comments
• COMEFROM comments

# Videos

• Computer scientist Roger Craig built an app to prepare for Jeopardy domination. comments
• 6th Grade iPhone Developer speaks at TEDx comments

# Job Threads

• Job Opening: "Frequent travel may be required" comments
• Why I only work with startups comments
• Y Combinator Startups: Job Board
• UseTheSource Job Board

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