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1.		For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser (arstechnica.com)
		275 points by evo_9 on Nov 24, 2011 \| 105 comments
2.		"Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996) (amasci.com)
		271 points by alvivar on Nov 24, 2011 \| 46 comments
3.		Why do humans procrastinate? (reddit.com)
		264 points by ankeshk on Nov 24, 2011 \| 84 comments
4.		What's In A GIF (matthewflickinger.com)
		250 points by ch0wn on Nov 24, 2011 \| 35 comments
5.		In Response to SOPA, Reddit Meshnet Project picks up steam (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		231 points by Wohlf on Nov 24, 2011 \| 76 comments
6.		EU Court of Justice: Censorship in Name of Copyright Violates Fundamental Rights (laquadrature.net)
		216 points by yogsototh on Nov 24, 2011 \| 49 comments
7.		The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving (wsj.com)
		162 points by brownie on Nov 24, 2011 \| 105 comments
8.		ECMAScript 6 looks promising (kishorelive.com)
		153 points by karterk on Nov 24, 2011 \| 88 comments
9.		I feel like I’m living the first line of my obituary. (wikimediafoundation.org)
		130 points by k3dz on Nov 24, 2011 \| 69 comments
10.		How Badoo built a billion-dollar social network on sex (wired.co.uk)
		131 points by fufulabs on Nov 24, 2011 \| 63 comments
11.		AT&T withdraws T-Mobile takeover application from FCC (theverge.com)
		122 points by barredo on Nov 24, 2011 \| 34 comments
12.		Exploring Euclideon's Unlimited Detail Engine (gameinformer.com)
		119 points by timknauf on Nov 24, 2011 \| 89 comments
13.		Fun With Numbers (daringfireball.net)
		112 points by danilocampos on Nov 24, 2011 \| 32 comments
14.		Canonical drops CouchDB because they were unable to make it scale up (slashdot.org)
		110 points by patrickaljord on Nov 24, 2011 \| 36 comments
15.		Senator Joe Lieberman asks Google for a terrorist flagging button on Blogger (theverge.com)
		88 points by nextparadigms on Nov 24, 2011 \| 69 comments
16.		New Stanford course - Anatomy (anatomy-class.org)
		80 points by buddhika on Nov 24, 2011 \| 41 comments
17.		Education pays ... (bls.gov)
		76 points by robg on Nov 24, 2011 \| 50 comments
18.		Functional programming for Object Oriented programmers (lifebeyondfife.com)
		75 points by lifebeyondfife on Nov 24, 2011 \| 34 comments
19.		Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologizes to Security Researcher (eff.org)
		74 points by wglb on Nov 24, 2011 \| 13 comments
20.		CAAT a JavaScript animation toolkit (hyperandroid.com)
		74 points by antichaos on Nov 24, 2011 \| 10 comments
21.		Lynn Margulis, 1938–2011 (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
		71 points by robinhouston on Nov 24, 2011 \| 13 comments
22.		Find A Small Problem And Build A Simple Solution. (jcamarena.com)
		68 points by j_camarena on Nov 24, 2011 \| 22 comments
23.		Django-app-engine development halted (allbuttonspressed.com)
		67 points by kennu on Nov 24, 2011 \| 31 comments
24.		App vs. Business (64notes.com)
		67 points by kingsidharth on Nov 24, 2011 \| 9 comments
25.		YouTube receives HTML5 1080p playback, testing new Flash features (theverge.com)
		58 points by gaoprea on Nov 24, 2011 \| 17 comments
26.		Nature Special: The Autism Enigma (nature.com)
		55 points by tokenadult on Nov 24, 2011 \| 9 comments
27.		Reasons to Use HTML5 (tympanus.net)
		56 points by dzejkej on Nov 24, 2011 \| 20 comments
28.		Belgacom ISP Can’t Be Told to Block File Sharing, EU Court Says (businessweek.com)
		50 points by joeyespo on Nov 24, 2011 \| 2 comments
29.		Fast data processing engine written in C (github.com/x86-64)
		49 points by x86_64 on Nov 24, 2011 \| 24 comments
30.		The coolest thing I ever made (pythonpackages.com)
		48 points by aclark on Nov 24, 2011 \| 13 comments
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