I only just discovered this website about a month ago, but it is now my second favorite website (after DonationCoder ).  Films are all of good to great quality, sortable by Genre , Topic and Style.

Short of the Week has been serving up epic bite-sized films to millions of filmmakers and fans since 2007. We seek to discover and promote the greatest and most innovative storytellers from around the world.

http://www.shortoftheweek.com

http://store.steampowered.com/sharing
http://steamcommunit...groups/familysharing

Share your Steam library of games with close friends & family

Share your Steam library of games with close friends & family
Share your computer?
Now share your games too.

Steam Family Sharing allows close friends and family members to play one another's games while earning their own Steam achievements and saving their own game progress to the Steam cloud. It's all enabled by authorizing a shared computer.

-Steam

There have been some really nice discussions from a few designers on how the new Yahoo logo was created by the ceo in a weekend on a whim, and her deluded description of the design process.  It's a good example of power going to people's heads and a general lack of respect for skills and experience.

Anybody can make a logo.. All it needs is a little time, a computer, someone that knows how to use Illustrator, and taste, maybe. Everybody has taste, right? So let’s do it! So thought Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer, and she went and did it. How did it turn out?

Nice long essays on the matter:

• Logo, Bullshit and Co., Inc.: http://ia.net/blog/logo-bullshit-co-inc/
• And "Yahoo's Logo Reveals the Worst Aspects of the Engineering Mindset": http://glog.glennf.c...-engineering-mindset
• Of Irreverence and Irrelevance: A Yahoo! Redesign - https://medium.com/i...-shapes/cba88884743c

Nice roundup of top cpu coolers:

AMD may not be getting as much enthusiast love as it used to, but the company's APU range is still where it's at for home theater-style systems, so I didn't hesitate to pick one up for a new compact media-streaming box recently. Unfortunately, while the chip was a relatively powerful yet affordable solution for playing 1080p content, it was surprisingly loud -- we're talking enough noise that I thought something was wrong with my power supply. Upon inspection, it wasn't the PSU and nothing was wrong per se, the stock AMD cooler was just being obnoxious, especially for a living room setup.

I thought I could get away with slowing the CPU fan in the BIOS, but that caused a drastic temperature spike and left me seeking a more elaborate solution. It's one that proved to be relatively simple: the Xigmatek Janus, a small heatsink and fan combo for Mini-ITX systems.

Strangely enough, that very same day I found myself facing another CPU cooler problem while building a Sandy Bridge-E rig with my friend. Having bought all the parts, we discovered that the Core i7-3820 processor didn't come with a cooler. Instead, Intel sells its heatsink/fan separately for $30. Although I knew he'd need a cooler, I wasn't prepared to answer my buddy's question when he asked which model to purchase.

It had been years since our last CPU cooler roundup so my knowledge was a little dated ...

http://www.techspot....07-best-cpu-coolers/

Good article in the guardian written for general audience by security expert Bruce Schneier.

NSA surveillance: A guide to staying secure

http://www.theguardi...-secure-surveillance

Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.

For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA stories, and have read hundreds of top-secret NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. I wasn't part of today's story – it was in process well before I showed up – but everything I read confirms what the Guardian is reporting.

At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping secure against such an adversary.

The primary way the NSA eavesdrops on internet communications is in the network. That's where their capabilities best scale. They have invested in enormous programs to automatically collect and analyze network traffic. Anything that requires them to attack individual endpoint computers is significantly more costly and risky for them, and they will do those things carefully and sparingly.

I am sure most of us have some sort of side project that we have worked on and then later left it to die, sometimes completed, sometimes half completed, sometimes just sort of finished, or an unpolished alpha. Some of us like building building things a lot more than we like running them, leaving behind a trail of half-baked ideas, poorly marketed web apps, software we have given up on simply because we are not interested in taking the next step.

Why let all that work go to waste?

SideProjectors is a brand new service to help you either sell your completed/half-completed/sort-of-running side project, or to connect you with other entrepreneurs who are looking to get involved.

https://www.sideprojectors.com