links of the day 12/20/2013 (a.m.)

• Nils Landgren Funky Abba - YouTube

• Sesame Street - Ernie's Hits (1974; LP) [HQ] - YouTube

• Turn Off the Data Vacuum - NYTimes.com

• China, and the soaring price of Bitcoin

• Bernanke's Bitcoin Comments Signal Growing Acceptance | New Republic

• Suing Lance Armstrong: The government and Floyd Landis are using the war on terror to go after him.

• Tony Hsieh Las Vegas: Can the Zappos billionaire turn Vegas into a tech Utopia?

• Rwanda’s high-tech future: 20 years after genocide, the nation aspires to be a tech hub.

• WeChat going international: Tencent aims for China’s first globally known Internet brand.

• Yahoo Mail: Could outages, redesign cost Marissa Mayer her most loyal users?

• Whisper app: 3 billion monthly pageviews.

• Chinese Bitcoin Investors Fret as Value of Virtual Currency Plunges - NYTimes.com

• Harvard exam bomb threats: How the alleged hoaxer failed to cover his online tracks.

• Stop Saying Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t Reversible | Eli Dourado

• The 'chemputer' that could print out any drug | Science | The Observer

• The Great Disintermediation | Eli Dourado

• n+1

• n+1: Socialize Social Media!

• Robert Samuelson: Of Internet threats and cyberattacks - The Washington Post

• Surveillance - Cozy or Chilling? - NYTimes.com

• A Powerful Rebuke of Mass Surveillance - NYTimes.com

• Googling Yourself Takes on a Whole New Meaning - NYTimes.com

• Our Decreasing Tolerance To Risk - Forbes

• Disruptive Competition Project — Breaking News on Breaking Stuff

• Rent Seeking and the Internet Economy (Part 1): Why is the Internet So Frequently the Target of Rent Seekers?

• Perspectives: Six Myths of Innovation Policy | EA July 2013

• Cyberutopianism should not be a dirty word.

• A Reply to Epstein & Pilon on NSA's Metadata Program | Cato @ Liberty

• Daring Fireball: Open and Shut

• My 11 Favorite Internet Policy Essays of 2013 (+ Worst Essay of the Year)

• Crovitz Nails It on Software Patents and the Federal Circuit

• InterOccupy | RESEARCH BY AND FOR OCCUPY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGES RECEIVED WISDOM ABOUT THE MOVEMENT, URGES ALLIANCE WITH POOR PEOPLES MOVEMENTS

• LINE : Free Calls & Messages

• NSA surveillance and third-party trackers: How cookies help government spies.

• The taxi-meter effect: Why do consumers hate paying by the mile or the minute so much?

• Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme: The Internet currency will collapse.

• Bitcoin: More than Money - Reason.com

• Why would anyone use Bitcoin when PayPal or Visa work perfectly well?

• New Dourado and Tabarrok Paper on Intellectual Property | Eli Dourado

• Our sousveillance future is now: Fred Smith taped by increasingly common wearable camera

• A Nice Illustration of The Law of Disruption in Action

• Anupam Chander on free speech and cyberlaw

• Anonymous Brazil - Protests against the World Cup 2014 | Anonymous Video Network

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.