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Chris and Andrew talk about Aaron Swartz: his life, accomplishments, and legacy. Followed by copyright and patent reform, jQuery, traveling, a gravity powered light, backups, and data recovery.

News:

• Remember Aaron Swartz
• Aaron Swartz commits suicide – The Tech
• “We’ve lost a fighter”: Hundreds gather to mourn Aaron Swartz | Ars Technica
• Former Reddit co-owner arrested for excessive JSTOR downloads | Ars Technica
• Feds go overboard in prosecuting information activist | Ars Technica
• The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” « Unhandled Exception
• The Case Against Aaron Swartz Was Complete Garbage | Techdirt
• How the Legal System Failed Aaron Swartz–and Us : The New Yorker
• Lessig Blog, v2
• Anonymous Appears To Have Hacked MIT Website, Leaves Swartz Tribute | TechCrunch
• Aaron Swartz Plea Deal Reportedly Rejected Days Before His Death
• In the Wake of Aaron Swartz’s Death, Let’s Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• “Aaron’s law,” Congressional investigation in wake of Swartz suicide | Ars Technica
• Lawmakers slam DOJ prosecution of Swartz as ‘ridiculous, absurd’ – The Hill’s Hillicon Valley
• Carmen Ortiz, U.S. Attorney, Under Fire Over Suicide Of Internet Pioneer Aaron Swartz
• BBC News – US employee ‘outsourced job to China’
• Exclusive: CBS forced CNET staff to recast vote after Hopper won ‘Best in Show’ at CES | The Verge
• The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3’s Source Code
• Two US power plants infected with malware spread via USB drive | Ars Technica
• System restore: how archivists salvaged 1,500 volumes of digital art from Sandy’s floodwaters | The Verge
• Fedora 18 finally arrives | ZDNet
• jQuery Blog » jQuery 1.9 final, jQuery 2.0 beta, Migrate final released
• jQuery Blog » The State of jQuery 2013
• Wikivoyage -€“ Free travel information around the globe
• Pittsburgh – Travel guides at Wikivoyage
• Google Lat Long: Never ass-ume
• Kerosene lamps face gravity-powered usurper | Ars Technica
• DMCA Nonsense: Your Default Login Page Is A Ripoff Of Our Default Login Page! | Techdirt
• The Volokh Conspiracy » Republicans Briefly Repudiate 40 Years of Tougher Copyright Laws
• Republican staffer fired for copyright memo talks to Ars | Ars Technica
• Still smarting from SOPA, Congress to shy away from copyright in 2013 | Ars Technica
• Sony Issues Bob Dylan Recordings to Keep European Copyright – NYTimes.com
• Seldo’s Tumblr, Another awesome US immigration experience
• Ars Q&A: Silicon Valley Congresswoman talks the 2013 tech agenda | Ars Technica
• Daniel Cook – Google+ – Hard problems in game development
• Python: The Dictionary Playbook – Amir Rachum
• Imran Nazar: Let’s Build a JPEG Decoder: Concepts

Music:

• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Frozen Silence – Sky (first five tracks)
• LukHash – ALPHA

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