Brad Feld on the bad rules the SEC is proposing for the Crowd Funding portion of the Jobs Act. Fred, and many others, missed the new proposed Amendments to Regulation D, Form D and Rule 156 under the Securities Act. And they look like one scary mess that could undermine the whole thing if approved.

Online Storage (more)

The Wife will be in Hong Kong. T-Mobile says that if she calls home from her Nexus One it will cost $2.29/minute! (International Roaming) (more)

Jun06: Glenn Greenwald discovered The National Security Agency (NSA) is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms (TelCo) providers, under a top secret court order issued in April... The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19. Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls (Meta Data). The contents of the conversation itself are not covered. (more)

Valve Software Laid Off a bunch of people. (more)

Derek Thompson: Are We Truly Overworked? An Investigation—in 6 Charts. Americans seem to be working more than ever (work-week). But the truth is that we are working less. So why do we feel so busy?

*The Barack Obama administration has urged a federal appeals court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. (more)

Mobile Operating System from Mozilla, for an Open Cell Phone. (more)

There's been (for years) a series of complaints about Me Too/BullShit/First World Problem "SiliconValley" Start Up-s sucking up all the Talent, instead of it going toward Real Problem-s (Grand Challenge-s). (more)

Paul Ford got the full 157 years of Harpers Magazine online. Inside the site: over a quarter-million scans from 157 years, thousands of interlinked topic pages, and an array of unique web-only content. Now he has to re-launch his life.

Christian Tietze: Create a Zettelkasten for your Notes to Improve Thinking and Writing • Zettelkasten Method (more)

We’re going to bring Google Reader and Google Plus closer together, so you can share the best of your feeds with just the right circles. As a result of these changes, we also think it's important to clean things up a bit. Many of Reader's social features will soon be available via Google+, so in a week's time we'll be retiring things like friending, following and shared link blogs inside of Reader. (more)

Open Source RssAggregator built in Python/Django and other techs (MongoDb and PostgreSQL!). (more)

aka Time Magazine (more)

*On May 13, 2013, the Associated Press announced telephone records for 20 of their reporters during a two-month period in 2012, had been seized by the Justice Department. They described these acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering operations... The DOJ did not direct subpoenas to the Associated Press, instead to going to their phone providers, including Verizon Wireless. Verizon neither challenged the subpoena nor did it try to alert the journalists whose records were being requested. (more)

To what extent is Oil Energy artificially cheap? (more)

country in the Middle East (more)

The bill, which the Barack Obama administration plans to submit to lawmakers next year... require all services that enable communications — including encrypted EMail transmitters like Blackberry, Social Networking Web sites like FaceBook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” (P2P) messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a WireTap order. The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages. (Extending CALEA.) (more)

Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is a free and open source multiplatform[4] voice (VoIP), videoconferencing and Instant Messaging application for Windows, Linux and MacOs X. It supports several popular instant messaging and telephony protocols, including open recognised encryption protocols for chat (OTR) and voice/video/streaming and voice/video conferencing (SIP/RTP/SRTP/ZRTP), as well as built-in I Pv6, NAT traversal and DNSSEC. Jitsi and its source code are released under the terms of the LGPL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi (more)

WikiEngine/Wiki Host that uses Drop Box as its File System. (more)