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Quite a few links in my pile of links to share. Here they are in no particular order:

• The Register: 'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering' - Oregon has laws against pointing out flaws.
• Mic: Inside the elite meme wars of America's most exclusive colleges
• Google Research: Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel - What if phones but too many night pictures averaged together?
• First Round Review: Fralic's 7 Rules for Making Memorable Connections
• Sarah Kendzior: The tale of the dictator’s daughter and her prince
• SSH Port - come gather round the terminal and hear the story of how one core service got its port.
• BBC: Sheep are not stupid, and they are not helpless either - Get woke on sheep, sheeple lemmings.
• New York Times: Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics
• Salon: Kindergartners get little time to play. Why does it matter? - The push for success starts early.
• The Atlantic: Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - Another take on the failure of Google Books.
• Maciej Cegłowski: Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance - A talk about strategies for ethical progress in tech.
• What city is the microbrew capital of the US? - Fun use of IP geolocation to personalize the headline.
• Waxy: The Flagpole Sitta Lip Dub Turns 10
• How To Host Your Own Private Git Repositories

In the grand tradition (two is a tradition) of posting links on Wednesdays, here is some fine reading to tide you over until the weekend:

• Buzzfeed: Mark Zuckerberg's Makeover Is a Political Campaign Without the Politics
• Buzzfeed: Climbing Out Of Facebook's Reality Hole
• The Verge: Instant recall - Facebook Instant didn't save publishing
• Song Sleuth - Shazam for birdsong! (Though $10 is steep and the early reviews aren't good. )
• Lauren Hallden: Ask me what I do
• Kate Imbach: Fairytale Prisoner by Choice
• Vox Video: CNN treats politics like sports
• NYT: How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off
• Matt Haughey: The Flickr Explore page is still really amazing - (Inspired by Tim Carmody's stint on kottke.org gathering the best of the Web. Go there too!)