links of the day 07/29/2014 (p.m.)

• 10 Apps to Help You Stay Focused on Your Writing | Jane Friedman

• Novel Writing Software: free and cheap tools for writers

• Use open source tools to create your own eBooks | Opensource.com

• Self publishing company, free online platform & eBooks | BookRix

• Booksie for writers

• Alternative to Skype: 3 Free Apps That Bring Better Audio/Visual Quality

• Publishing Your Own Books? Here are the Tools You'll Need - Make Tech Easier

• TagMyDoc: Easily Embed QR Code to Your Documents

• Storybird - Write

• 4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized

• Free online peer reviewed journals - Wikiversity

• WikiTree - Family Tree and Free Genealogy

• China Trade Numbers Still Don’t Add Up Post-Fake Exports - Bloomberg

• My Captivity in Ukraine Shows Amateurs Succumb to Hatred - Bloomberg

• IDF's Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

• ‫اسرائيل تدمر حي خلال ساعه في غزة‬‎ - YouTube gaza

• BBC News - Tripoli fuel depot fire: Italy to 'help douse' blaze

• BBC News - Ukraine: Are 2014 pro-Russia rebels fighting 1920s war?

• BP's Faustian Pact with Russia goes horribly wrong with Yukos verdict – Telegraph Blogs

• Israel Provoked This War - Henry Siegman - POLITICO Magazine

• Ukraine: Rebels still manipulating crash site

• Israel Provoked This War - Henry Siegman - POLITICO Magazine

• The Scars of World War I Battlefields a Century Later

• Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs: My Fear Is That Putin Is Lighting A Fire He Cannot Control

• Europe's Nightmare Coming True: America vs. Russia...Again | The National Interest

• http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0728/Stuck-in-the-middle-of-a-war-zone-on-a-Donetsk-bound-train#.U9dTQzsb0-Q.twitter

• Twitter / Search - #Gaza

• How A One-Time Pig Peddler Helped The U.S. Flood War Zones With Guns

• RealTime Economic Issues Watch | The Hague Penalizes Russia for Yukos Confiscation

• Очередная ночь в Донецке: разрывы световых бомб и стрельба | Pressa Today

• Очень часто, от Российских "патриотов" слышно что, все что сейчас происходит в Украине это некий план запада и пиндосов. / Блог им. kefir / Kakhovka.info

• Russia Is Pregnant with Ukraine by Vladimir Sorokin | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

• Europe's Nightmare Coming True: America vs. Russia...Again | The National Interest

• Russia justifies State-sponsored Abductions :: khpg.org

• This Is What a War in EuropeReally Looks Like - Anna Nemtsova - POLITICO Magazine

• I tried to live on minimum wage for a week

• Putin's ex-adviser says MH17 was not random choice - EN.DELFI

• USA is looking to create new base for UAVs in Crete | StratRisks

• Enmity and Civilian Toll Rise in Ukraine While Attention Is Diverted - NYTimes.com

• Judy Asks: Should America Spy on Its Allies? - Carnegie Europe

• Putin’s Crooked Mirror - Carnegie Europe

• Captured spy reveals reveals gruesome details about “separatist” activity in Eastern Ukraine | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

• VKontakte Offline Due to Excessive Heat in St. Petersburg | News | The Moscow Times

• Cyber Attacks on Russian Websites Increasingly Political | News | The Moscow Times

• Cold War Strategies Are Back in Russia's Playbook | Opinion | The Moscow Times

• Jaded Argentines brace for looming debt default | Reuters

• Drone video shows final voyage of Concordia | Video | Reuters.com

• Ukraine war crimes trials a step closer after Red Cross assessment | Reuters

• Now You See It, Now You Don't: Rewriting The Ukraine Crisis

• EU Sanctions Hit Russian Intelligence Officials, Rebel Leaders

• U.S. Shares Photos It Says Show Shelling Of Ukrainian Troops From Russian Territory

• In Ukraine Crisis, War Of Words Hits Wikipedia

• World War I Anniversary: Five Historians, Two Questions

• Nick Davies: 'Murdoch and his papers have done incalculable damage' - Video | Media | theguardian.com

• Geckos on 'lost' Russian satellite found | World news | theguardian.com

• Russia could add notion of “aggressor country” to legislation | Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI).

• U.S. Banks Struggle to Comply With Sanctions Against Russia | Business | The Moscow Times

• Defense.gov News Article: Russian Troops, Equipment Mass Along Ukraine Border

• Jeroen Akkermans RTL News Berlin's albums on Flickr

• NATO - Topic: Russia’s accusations - setting the record straight (updated July 2014)

• BBC News - Who, what, why: What happens when lightning hits the sea?

• How the Internet of Everything Will Shape the Next 25 Years of Internet History

• Internet of Things: The first step towards the Internet of Everything - InnovateThink.com

• BBC News - Ukraine conflict: Inside crisis-hit towns of Donetsk and Luhansk

• BBC News - Putin's complicated game in Ukraine

• What Would the National Guard Actually Do at the Border? - Defense One

• The CIA Fears the Internet of Things - Defense One

• F L Y B Y N E W S

• electromagnetic military us strategy

• How the Army Plans to Fight a War Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum - Defense One

• America's Top Threats in Space Are Lasers and Nukes - Defense One

• Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a TerroristThe Intercept

• March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance - The Intercept

• How to Find Yourself on the Terror Watch List - Defense One

• ISIL Is Now a ‘Full Blown Army’ in Iraq - Defense One

• Senate Thinks It May Have the NSA Reform Bill Everyone Can Agree On - Defense One

• The Number of Foreign Fighters in Syria Now Exceeds 12,000 and Rising - Defense One

• How China's Enormous Fishing Fleet Is Being Used As a Surrogate Navy - Defense One

• Why Is Israel Losing a War It's Winning? - Defense One

• Syria's War Poets - Elliot Ackerman - The Atlantic

• Adventures in Legal Weed - The Atlantic

• The Overblown Stigma of Genital Herpes - Jon Fortenbury - The Atlantic

• The Health Benefits of Trees - James Hamblin - The Atlantic

• nixontapes.org - Nixon Tapes and Transcripts

• nixontapes.org - Nixon Tapes and Transcripts

• In 1858, People Said the Telegraph Was 'Too Fast for the Truth' - Adrienne LaFrance - The Atlantic

• 'Even If You Don't Like It, You're Supposed to Appear That You Do' - Noah Berlatsky - The Atlantic

• How Military Guns Make the Civilian Market - Matt Valentine - The Atlantic

• The Untapped Secrets of the Nixon Tapes - Evan Thomas - The Atlantic

• Lone Survivor's Takeaway: Every War Movie Is a Pro-War Movie - Calum Marsh - The Atlantic

• Anti-War Art: Nearly Impossible - Noah Berlatsky - The Atlantic

• How Secret Societies Stay Hidden On the Internet - ​Matt King - The Atlantic

• The Secret to a Tattoo's Permanence: The Immune System - Olga Khazan - The Atlantic

• This Is Awkward, but I Know How Much Your House Cost - Megan Garber - The Atlantic

• What Is Hezbollah Doing in Europe? - Defense One

• BBC News - UN blacklists North Korea arms ship operator

• Now I Know – Hitler’s Plan to Invade Switzerland

• BBC News - Russia 'violated 1987 nuclear missile treaty', says US

• Russia plans $50bn Yukos appeal

• Homeland insecurity: Sochi, migrants and the problem of Cossack identity - The Calvert Journal

• British deputy PM wants 2018 World Cup pulled from Russia over crisis in Ukraine | National Post

• ‘Silent vacations’: Retreats from digital life gain in popularity as worn-out professionals seek respite | National Post

• Under Putin, Russia seeing an exodus of ‘ the most educated, most active, most entrepreneurial people’ | National Post

• Vladimir Putin facing multi-million dollar lawsuit for aiding separatists who shot down MH17, lawyers say | National Post

• Satellite images prove Russia fired rockets into Ukraine after MH17 crash, U.S. says | National Post

• Xi Tells Army: Ditch the Flashy Medals - Businessweek

• Five Ways That Small Businesses Risk Customer Data - Businessweek

• Provallia in flames, details on Russian rocket strike | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

• Amazon may be going after Square with a credit card reader of its own | The Verge

• How one man bypassed internet congestion and fixed his Netflix streaming | The Verge

• Amazon.com: 3D Printing Store

• Your smartphone will replace room keys at Hilton hotels by end of 2016 | The Verge

• Hamas drone injects new element into Arab-Israeli conflict - LA Times

• Mazin's Ahmed Blog: Session Hijacking in Instagram Mobile App via MITM Attack [ 0-DAY ]

• Google is helping James Frey build a multimedia sci-fi juggernaut | The Verge

• Journalists and Attorneys Are Increasingly Adopting Spycraft | VICE United States

• You Can Now Buy an Edward Snowden Action Figure | VICE United States

• The Judges Approving the NSA's Surveillance Requests Keep Buying Verizon Stock | VICE United States

• OkCupid admits that it experiments on users, just like Facebook | The Verge

• A giant armadillo building is hiding in the middle of Paris | The Verge

• Stackable cells allow you to sleep on top of your friends at music festivals | The Verge

• 26,000 Deadbeat Taxpayers Have Access to Pentagon Secrets - Businessweek

• 2016 Presidential Campaign: Here Come the Hologram Companies - Businessweek

• Holographic politicians could soon become a normal thing in the US | The Verge

• Gallery: The Computer Virus Catalog | The Verge

• Google's 'perfect human' project isn't evil, it's business | The Verge

• Editorial board of The New York Times calls for the legalization of weed | The Verge

• Meet the Cossacks handing out vigilante justice in Sochi | The Verge

• Insurgents Identified: The Green Men of VKontakte | Ukrainian Policy

• Bank of England chief says Lloyds traders 'clearly broke the law' | Mail Online

• MH17 victim's wife cancels credit cards USED by thieving pro-Russian rebels | Mail Online

• Makeup looted from MH17 turns up on Instagram | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

• “Ukraine, expect us”: More Russian soldiers brag of invasion | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

• Serbian commander detained in Debaltseve, Donetsk | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

• Russians spent several hours interrogating a Ukrainian paratrooper with 75% of his body burned | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

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