China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq
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The only four countries that executed more of their citizens than the United States did last year.
The good news is that an increasing number of states are starting to ban the death penalty.
As a user, you shouldn’t be forced to share your private information and communications just to get a job. And as the friend of a user, you shouldn’t have to worry that your private information or communications will be revealed to someone you don’t know and didn’t intend to share with just because that user is looking for a job.
—Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, who says that Facebook will fight employers and others who ask users for their passwords. Good on Facebook for standing behind their users on this.
NewsBlur is applying for a Knight New Challenge
My pal Sam Clay took his excellent feed reader app full time a month ago and is now looking for some support from the Knight Foundation.
Here’s how you can help make it a reality: check it out and if you think it sounds like a good idea, click that TumblHeart.
Michael Donohoe’s excellent Och’s extension for Chrome really shows just how powerful excellent photography can be.
I love a good party. I am in this to make party. But I think we might be getting a bit confused about what it means to launch a product or start a company, and what it means to be on a reality game show.
I am still excited, and I still marvel at what a weird thing we have all built together. I worry about how all of this money seems to corrupt it, turning a festival originally about independent creators into a branded hellscape of VIP-only, RSVP-only partypocalypse.
I love a good party. I am in this to make party. But I think we might be getting a bit confused about what it means to launch a product or start a company, and what it means to be on a reality game show.
I am still excited, and I still marvel at what a weird thing we have all built together. I worry about how all of this money seems to corrupt it, turning a festival originally about independent creators into a branded hellscape of VIP-only, RSVP-only partypocalypse.
—Ben Brown on what’s wrong with SxSW
Papermill is an Instapaper client for Android that I’ve been working on for the last few months. It’s now live on Google Play. I’m pretty excited about it and I’m really looking forward to making it even better.
Android needs more like this.
Ryan is one of those rare breeds of ridiculously smart coder with a great sense of design. And he’s just a helluva great guy to boot. What I’m saying is I hate him.
Man. White people are crazy.
I don’t get it. I’ve been doing this for 30-40 years. Why all of a sudden now?
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Marilyn Hagerty, octogenarian food columnist for the Grand Forks Herald and viral internet celebrity.
On Wednesday, Hagerty wrote a review of Grand Forks’ newest restaurant, a “long-awaited” Olive Garden. Her review has had hundreds of thousands of hits in about two days, on a site where stories tend to traffic in the thousands.