LIMITS OF FREE SPEECH
World politics intrude on Silicon Valley (again). After days of violence sparked by outrage over a video trailer mocking Islam's prophet, Google and its YouTube subsidiary are caught up in a controversy in which the options boil down to bad and worse.
SO MANY ZEROES
This is an intuitive look at large data sizes.
OOPS
Detailed blueprints of Apple’s iPhone 5 that have been created for use by aftermarket product manufacturers have appeared on Apple’s Developer website.
CAN'T MAKE THIS UP
The anti-Islam film that's set off a firestorm in the Middle East was directed by a 65-year-old schlock director named Alan Roberts, we've confirmed. He's the creative vision behind softcore porn classics like The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood.
UNEMPLOYMENT SUCKS IN COMPUTERS TOO
The world inside Mark Zandi's computer model feels pretty familiar. It's full of people who are worried about the economy. Their homes are being foreclosed on. They're paying more for gas. Something like 13 million of them can't find jobs.
NSFW
Just a joke, but it's still pretty funny... and true.
PARDON ME?!
Grey Poupon, widely known to be the condiment aisle's fanciest dijon mustard, isn't just snooty its advertisements. The brand's Facebook page actually screens Facebook profiles before accepting friends into its "members only" social circle of fancy fans.
CRACKDOWN
Twitter will soon remove support for third-party image hosts, such as Twitpic and yfrog, from its official apps, according to a person who was briefed on the company's plans.
PEW PEW
The system could replace traditional needles, with a jab as painless as being hit with a puff of air.
WHO NEEDS HOLLYWOOD?
Computing and technology leaders have not historically been the most political captains of industry — but new figures from leaked campaign finance documents show growing involvement from an industry that has become a Democratic power base to rival Hollywood.
TALKING BURGERS
Do you want your McDonald's food talking to you? A cheeseburger does in this print ad from DDB Stockholm—which, at 265 words, is surely one of the longest-copy ads ever written for a fast-food sandwich.
NOT SAFE FOR EPILEPTICS, SERIOUSLY
"Bumped my head on the door frame on exit unclasping the latch on the box. The camera popped out on exit at 12.500 and fell straight down onto the landing area at the DZ and was recovered by a fellow skydiver."
DIGG WAS A VICTIM TOO
Well here’s a Twitter bug that is kind of alarming. Apparently, for some verified accounts, avatars were swapped out with other random users’.
MARTIAN MYSTERY
A strange picture of odd, spherical rock formations on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover has scientists scratching their heads over what exactly they're looking at.
LEAKS
This document lays out, albeit vaguely, how the U.S. government plans to handle cybersecurity.
HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND DEMOCRACY DON'T MIX
More than a few political scientists puzzle over the fact that anyone bothers to vote at all.
GOOD THING WE'RE NOT HOSTED IN AMSTERDAM
A Dutch court has ruled that the website GeenStijl infringed copyright by linking to unauthorized copies of nude pictures of reality star Britt Dekker.
PROGNOSIS NEGATIVE
High-profile cases and modern technology are putting scientific deceit under the microscope.
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