Headlines from April 16, 2012
- New online dating sites embrace face-to-face singles events over scrolling through profiles.
- Germans build a hand-cranked barrel organ out of Legos that plays the Star Wars theme.
- Arguing that Tolstoy and Aristotle would consider meme culture an art form. #video
- Ten years in, Andy Baio’s favorite Waxy.org posts.
- Here’s a weird thing a computer left behind. It’s a good start. The New Aesthetic needs to get weirder. #opinions
- Facebook might be making us lonely, but none of us are going to be the one to pull the plug.
- Facebook is bad for the web, and it’s bad for people. I can’t keep ignoring that. Sean Bonner quits Facebook.
- While dissecting the Social Media Exile essay genre, a language expert considers penning his own. #tmn
- Cybercops on the rise as attention-seeking fugitives increasingly use social media to brag about their crimes.
- How police used forensic software to reconstruct a blind woman’s “invisible manuscript.”
- X-rays of the Prado’s version of the Mona Lisa show the painter was looking over Leonardo’s shoulder as he created the original.
- Tupac performs at Coachella via hologram. #video
- El Salvador marks its first murder-free day in almost three years.
- For the first time, Kim Jong-un addresses the North Korean people—his father addressed the nation only once.
- Uncovering new clues in the mystery surrounding the Bush National Guard story that ended Dan Rather’s career. #longreads
- As more voter information becomes available to campaigns, microtargeting is replaced by nanotargeting.
- Before diamond rings were status gestures, they were virginity insurance.
- A former TSA head takes on airport security theater and proposes alternatives that might actually work.
- Wealth psychologists help the super-rich deal with their guilt.
- New York taxes bagels; Alabama taxes playing cards.
- A fair and balanced guide to choosing between New York and San Francisco. #tmn
- New York versus Paris, in graphic form.
- Why more first-class males survived the Titanic may have more to do with their stewards, rather than nicer clothes.
- Story of lost Indian boy who found his mother using Google Earth may become a new motion picture.
- Create your own Philip Glass composition.
- Long watch: Academic analysis of The Wire‘s visual style. #video