The New Yorker on radical feminism vs. transgender rights
— solid criticism of the piece; related: one trans woman's story of being ejected from MichFest in 1991 #
Marco Arment on the challenge of being an iOS indie
— related: Jared Sinclair's sales numbers from Unread #
LifeLock CEO's identity stolen 13 times
— you can't promise to secure a national ID system based on an insecure nine-digit number #
OKTrends on OKCupid's experiments on people
— Tim Carmody on why this doesn't bother people as much as Facebook's experiments #
Gentle Brain
— "an interactive piece about the fleeting nature of digital pleasures"; try it on mobile #
Anil Dash on the shifting meaning of "public"
— some behavior may be legally public, but publishing it for profit subverts reasonable expectations #
Congress anonymously edits Reptilians article on Wikipedia
— the edit was inspired by John Resig's tweet seven minutes earlier #
Musician slams his ex-label for suing YouTube star that used his music
— Kaskade's post talks about his issues with Soundcloud #
Foursquare rebrands, moving all checkins to Swarm tomorrow
— a big gambit, I hope it pays off; I'm not a fan of the two-app approach #
Weird Al scores first Billboard #1 album
— first comedy album to hit #1 since Allan Sherman in 1963 #
The genius of Weird Al's video blitz
— RCA refused to pay for music videos, so he partnered with a different portal for every one #
Verizon's Netflix throttling exposed
— hiding Netflix activity through a VPN is 10x faster than connecting directly through Verizon #
Weird Al's Word Crimes
— by the creator of the fan-made, 1,000-hour Shop Vac video; Al's releasing a new video daily #
How to Flawlessly Predict Anything on the Internet
— the FIFA Corruption hoax is an update to a classic confidence game #
Ryan Block's Comcast disconnection call
— the last eight minutes of an unbelievable 18-minute support call #
The Atlantic on the effort to restore Prodigy from cached files
— if you have an old Prodigy install, send it in #
anon-edits, tweet about anonymous Wikipedia edits from IP address ranges
— as seen in @congressedits and @gccaedits, inspired by @parliamentedits #
Wagner Au's profile of AM Radio, the Banksy of Second Life
— because of his anonymity, not art style; only one of his works survives #
New York Observer on Rusty Foster's Today in Tabs
— an addictive daily read for me, I'm missing it during his summer break #
Making Tweedy's "Summer Noon" video
— how she made it in three weeks with no 3D, video, or animation experience #
Matter's Liz Spiers on Shanley Kane
— related, Shanley's preemptive response on Model View Culture #