But you can never leave: the websites that make it hardest to delete your account.
August 2013
“He is dominant, but he is not universally adored. His showy personality and subtle game are a niche taste. Haters call him Djokobitch. Jerzy Janowicz, the Polish player, said recently that he was “a fake.” But now, with the waning of the Federer-Nadal duopoly, which has fixated tennis for the past decade, the love he craves is within his reach. This week, at Flushing Meadows, where he was once booed, Novak Djokovic will attempt to assert his sovereignty.”
Lauren Collins: Can Novak Djokovic Become Tennis’s Leading Man? : The New Yorker
The Guardian’s Great Sandwich Survey via Digg
An excellent illustration of an amazing story—Doc Ellis pitches a no-hitter while high on a mix of acid and stimulants:
Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No from Doubleday & Cartwright on Vimeo
via Karl
“We may fool ourselves that social media and slot machines are there to entertain us, “just for fun”; these are commercial products that exist solely to make money for their owners. With respect to the making of money, the evidence has long been limpidly clear: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are no different from the most rapacious Gilded Age plutocrats, whom they exactly resemble in every particular excepting the moustaches (so far).”
“My first gun was a chrome .25 caliber automatic with a pink, pearl handle. It was beautiful. But it was a killing machine, and at 14 years old I had the same hole in my heart that President Obama, in a Chicago speech, stated other child killers had. I had no business with that gun. Yet making guns accessible to troubled souls is business as usual in America.”
John Lennon, inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York.
via Digg
Smashed hard drives. Airport detention. The escalating battle against journalism.
Clever ad from Newcastle.
via the Dish