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What a beautiful, lovely time to be alive.

The cacophonous, heavy thrash you hear above is Hatebeak, and yes all of those vocal samples come from a African Gray Parrot named Waldo. Waldo's retainers have a pretty extensive metal pedigree, being members and collaborators in thrash band Pig Destroyer. Just how metal are they?



This gosh-dang metal.

Metal fans will recognize all the cheeky references to other bands (Morbid Angel, Judas Priest) within Hatebeak's song and album titles - as if the blatant Iron Maiden reference in the title above weren't a hint already.

In other news, I'm starting a band with a wild boar called Deathtusk and our album "Ham or Fall" will come out next winter. Get ready!

Whitson Gordon explains why Google's browser is such a resource hog. Read the rest

I'd love to read The Next Web's article titled "Ad-blockers aren’t ‘immoral,’ but maybe you’re using them wrong", but it is impossible because of the hilariously broken full-screen ad superimposed upon it.

Bidding starts at $10, proceeds go to benefit Skepchickcon in Minneapolis, July 2-5.

The Logjam bug allows attackers to break secure connections by tricking the browser and server to communicate using weak crypto -- but why do browsers and servers support weak crypto in the first place? Read the rest

This 8-bit tribute to the greatest Studio Ghibli movie transforms the magic of Miyazaki into pixels. Read the rest

The game developer and Gamergate bogeywoman/survivor has furnished the authorities with the graphic death-threats she received for speaking out about online harassment of women, but they won't take action. Read the rest

GM has joined with John Deere in asking the government to confirm that you literally cannot own your car because of the software in its engine. Read the rest

From NYC media-literacy charity The LAMP comes MediaBreaker, a radical tool to remix the media, lay out its agenda, and tell our own stories. Read the rest

A few months ago, I noticed that PayPal put a "pay later" button where the usual payment button would be. It's a tricky way to snooker users into the credit/debt treadmill, and PayPal has been fined for this fraudulent behavior, writes Josh Lowensohn.

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From the team behind Kurz Gesagt (In a Nutshell), this terrific animation about Net Neutrality that premiered at last night's Webby Awards in New York City.

The Despecialized Editions of the original Star Wars movies are a de-mix of the DVD releases, restoring them to the color, edits and pacing of the original cinematic releases. Read the rest

Chances are that the one you've been using all along is still the best.

MAME, the arcade-game emulating software under constant development since its creation by Nicola Salmoria in 1997, is "going open-source." Read the rest

Reddit—sprawling, intimate, wonderful, horrible—has promised to "prohibit attacks and harassment of individuals through reddit with the goal of preventing them." Read the rest

Michael Geist writes, "The Canadian government's decision to extend the term of copyright for sound recordings in the budget may have taken most copyright observers by surprise, but not the music industry." Read the rest

We were all expecting a Jay and Silent Bob-style whooping, but what follows is actually a pretty interesting conversation about internet anonymity and trolling culture. Today, the internet was not a steaming pile of hate!

Brett "Remix Manifesto" Gaylor tells the story of his new project: a revolutionary "mashup documentary" about privacy and the Web. Read the rest

A non-profit group analyzes what harassment looks like on the social media platform, and how Twitter responds to it. Read the rest

In the great tradition of Tumblr mash-up memes, Feminist Lisa Frank juxtaposes neon animals and quotes by Gloria Steinem, Shonda Rhimes, and more. Read the rest

Those talking heads you see on TV defending the NSA and calling for Snowden's ass in a sling? They make bank off NSA surveillance contracts. Read the rest

For the first time since his indictment in December 2010, Jeffrey Sterling’s voice can now be heard in a short documentary film, released today. Read the rest

Aaron Grimes created this stunning, surreal video of Tokyo last year by "stacking video frames inside Adobe Photoshop and then recombining those stacked frames into a video again." Read the rest

A masterfully directed and edited nutso animation with clips from 160 movies. (more…)

He'll serve under the brilliant Megan Smith, the CTO. Read the rest

Superfish: the class-action lawsuit. I'm looking forward to receiving a $5 discount voucher in about 2020!

Andrew writes, "Last night MIT's Comparative Media Studies/Writing program hosted Brianna Wu of Giant Spacekat and law professor Danielle Keats Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.

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I love Michael Jackson's music and this makes me love it even more.

Keurig CEO Brian Kelley blamed a 23% drop in sales on his decision to use DRM to stop people from buying their coffee-pods from his competition. Read the rest

Mike Davis from Ioactive found serious flaws in the high-security the Cyberlock locks used by hospitals, airports and critical infrastructure, but when he announced his findings, he got a legal threat that cited the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Read the rest