RIP, Borders. From a letter by the company president to employees:
The truth is that Borders has been facing headwinds for quite some time, including a rapidly changing book industry, eReader revolution, and turbulent economy. We put in a valiant fight, but regrettably in the end we weren't able to overcome these external forces.
[. . .]
So long, iTunes, hello Amazon:
This will open up a whole new world of possibilities, won't it?
A quarter-century after the creation of “.com,” the agency that assigns Internet addresses is loosening its rules and allowing suffixes named after brands, hobbies, political causes and just about anything else.
I guess this is like one of those red letter editions of the Bible designed to let us know quickly and certainly what Jesus actually said:
If you're ugly, just get counseling, OK?
An exclusive online meeting place billed as a dating website for "beautiful men and women" was causing new outrage Monday after dumping 30,000 members deemed too ugly.
It doesn't get any better than this -- Alec Baldwin sympathizing with Anthony Weiner:
As graduation day arrives, students will say goodbye to their classmates and teachers. And many are departing without a traditional yearbook to preserve those memories.
State budget cuts and the weak economy are causing elementary schools, middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country to either do away with yearbooks or look for more cost-effective publishing options.
Aha, an explanation perhaps for the bizarre behavior of Anthony Weiner:
We're almost in the era of "culture on demand" -- everything available all the time. Bill Wyman at Slate:
Yeah, that darn freedom of speech is so dangerous when you allow too much of it:
Meanwhile, Facebook is talking with potential Chinese partners about entering the huge China market, where the government has been cracking down on dissidents. That crackdown has come in response to the uprisings shaking authoritarian Middle Eastern regimes, movements that have used U.S.-based social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter as organizing tools.
