links of the day 08/05/2014 (p.m.)

• HOPE X: Ethical Questions and Best Practices for Service Providers in the Post-Snowden Era | MIT Center for Civic Media

• RapidSMS: A Free and Open Source SMS Framework

• Magpi » Login

• Open Data Kit

• Better data makes better cities | LocalData

• The Open Locast Project by the MIT Mobile Experience Lab

• CrisisNET

• Safecast

• Monitorial Citizenship: Projects and Tools | MIT Center for Civic Media

• Gratitude and its Dangers in Social Technologies | MIT Center for Civic Media

• Open Water Project: Exploring Open-Source Water Quality Monitoring 29 Jul

• The Crazy Plan Teach 100,000 Poor Kids to Code - TIME

• Living Smarter, Greener and Cheaper on the Grid - TIME

• Google, Facebook and AT&T Are Teaching Girls to Code - TIME

• Study Finds People Feel Safer With ‘Protected Lanes’ for Bikes

• Harley Davidson Goes Electric

• Tech Startup Amplifyd Seeks to Bring Lobbying to the People - TIME

• Max Mosley sues Google, wants 2008 Sex Party Pics gone 2 Aug

• This Journalist is Launching Drones to Expose Factory Farm Abuse (Video) 20 Jun

• Fast Company: Drones can get around strict “ag-gag” laws and document horrifying factory farms 8 Jul

• Democracy Now: How did freeing animals from cages become an act of terrorism? 15 Jul

• Automated Mini-Factories Will Bring Back Custom-Fit Clothes | Motherboard

• Yes, There Is an 'Uber for Weed' | Motherboard

• Are We in Control of Our Brains? Probably Not | Motherboard

• Russia Built an Underwater Cable to Bring Its Internet to Newly Annexed Crimea | Motherboard

• FBclaim.com - The Facebook Privacy Class Action

• A Law Student Invites You to Join His Class Action Suit Against Facebook | Motherboard

• A Haunting Drone's Eye View of an Abandoned Nuclear Plant | Motherboard

• Why Anonymous Messaging Services Are Full of Bitching and Flirting | Motherboard

• Inside the DIY Weapons Workshops of the Free Syrian Army | Motherboard

• Syrian Rebels' DIY 'Hell's Cannon' Looks Like an Exploding Turkey Deep Fryer | Motherboard

• Will Virtual Reality ‘Jolting’ Be the Digital Drug of Choice? | Motherboard

• Six Ways Big Telecom Tries to Kill Community Broadband | Motherboard

• States Debate Regulating Digital Currency

• As Businesses Boom, States Must Decide How to Regulate Bitcoin | Motherboard

• A History of Using Sound as a Weapon | Motherboard

• www.news.admin.ch - Armed Forces reconnaissance drone system to be replaced

• How the Gaza Conflict Is Fueling Israeli Weapons Sales | Motherboard

• 'Road to Ruin' Is a Gorgeous Cyberpunk Game About Forgotten Tech | Motherboard

• Combat Footage From Gaza and Syria Looks Uncomfortably Like a Video Game | Motherboard

• Armenia Wants Every Armenian to Write a Wikipedia Article | Motherboard

• Nearly One Third of Germany Is Now Powered by Renewable Energy 29 Jul

• In Two Years, Denmark's Wind Power Will Be Half the Cost of Fossil Fuels 30 Jul

• The Gaia Satellite Will Map One Billion of the Milky Way's Stars 31 Jul

• Complexity Researchers Help Visualize the Spread of Western Thought | Motherboard

• Aerial Radar Will Force More Drug Cartels Underwater | Motherboard

• Watch an Autonomous Robot Farmer Harvest Data from the Field | Motherboard

• Drone Pilots Association | Representing the interests of non-hobbyist small drone pilots

• The FAA's Drone Crackdown Would Kill Dozens of Completely Legal Companies | Motherboard

• How to Use a Potato Chip Bag to Eavesdrop Through Soundproof Windows | Motherboard

• How Google's Accidental Robo-Selfies Broke Street View's Fourth Wall | Motherboard

• Hacking an Airliner Through Its Wi-Fi Is Pretty Much Impossible | Motherboard

• Comic-Con, Cosplay, and Self-Expression - Reason.com

• The Secret History of the Telephone Network - Reason.com

• 'Concrete Facts Are Not Necessary': The Intercept's Ryan Devereaux on the Secret Government Watchlisting Guide - Reason.com

• Bringing the First Amendment into the 21st Century - Reason.com

• The Fight Against California's Electric Skateboard Ban - Reason.com

• Fiscale autonomie voor Schotten: "Stap naar onafhankelijkheid wordt heel klein" - Binnenland - De Morgen

• Hoe Turtelboom alsnog de ministerpost van Tommelein wist af te snoepen - Wetstraat - De Morgen

• Nearly 100 Killed in Violent Xinjiang Uprising, China Says - China Real Time Report - WSJ - Linkis.com

• Xiaomi Overtakes Samsung in China Smartphone Market

• Why It's Worrying That U.S. Companies Are Getting Older

• History Suggests China Is on Verge of Banking Crisis

• Moscow using refugees from Ukraine to shift ethnic balance in non-Russian republics, Bashkir historian Says | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

• NATO countries provide ferries to Russia to transport supplies to Crimea | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine

• ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 - Overview of current and emerging cyber-threats — ENISA

• BSNews :: Andriy Klymenko: A Strategy to Bring Crimea Back to Ukraine: Return is Inevitable

• BSNews :: «Avia Blacklist»: 70 aircrafts operated by 16 Russian airlines flew to the occupied Crimea on August 3

• ATO forces are preparing to storm Pervomaysk (PHOTOS) | Voices of Ukraine

• Юрий Касьянов - YouTube

• Боевой вылет разведывательного коптера в операции по взятию Дебальцево - YouTube

• More Than 300 Ukrainian Troops Cross Into Russia, Confusion Reigns

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