I respect Ars Technica’s choice to keep single-page versions of long articles as a subscriber-only feature. If you want to save John Siracusa’s huge Lion review to Instapaper as one long page tomorrow, please support their business and buy an Ars Premier subscription.

—Marco on how to save John Siracusa’s massive Lion review to Instapaper. Marco’s got a tough job balancing the features of Instapaper against the needs of publishers. Regardless of whether you think he’s made the right call here, I appreciate the thoughtfulness with which he approaches his business.

Robber who broke into hair salon beaten up by black-belt owner and kept as sex slave for three days… fed only Viagra

See, you think that’s the entire story right there in the headline, but there’s more! [via Alberto Cairo]

Thanks to the newly launched visual.ly, I have a new avenue for settling arguments with my brilliant, beautiful wife.

Also, come over here and call me a ‘foodie’ – see how many fingers you walk away with.

Bancroft family members regret selling the Wall Street Journal to Murdoch, in light of the News of the World scandal

A number of key members of the family which controlled The Wall Street Journal say they would not have agreed to sell the prestigious daily to Rupert Murdoch if they had been aware of News International’s conduct in the phone-hacking scandal at the time of the deal.

gfxCardStatus is a free app that will dynamically swap which graphics card your MacBook Pro is using

Late-model MacBook Pros have two graphics cards, a supercharged one and a lower-powered, battery-sipping one. This handy utility lets you swap which one you’re using without requiring a log out and will even dynamically swap on the fly depending on what power source you’re plugged into. Neato.

It’s completely unimaginative and even quite amateurish. The logo in perspective shown above? Ugh. That’s the first thing any design student would try if tasked with doing a logo for a blog about technology. And the pixels within pixels as seen in the variation next to it? Somewhat pretty but that’s about it. And pairing it all with Interstate? For some reason it does not work at all even though it probably should; it looks like a remnant of early 2000s design.

—Armin Vit is unimpressed with TechCrunch’s new branding.

When there are more than 200 tweets that need to be loaded in your timeline, you’ll see a gap with a plus button. This signifies that there are tweets that weren’t loaded there. You can control which way the gap loads depending on the position of the gap on screen when you tap on it. If you like to read tweets from old to new, tap on the gap button when it’s in the top half of the screen to correctly load without losing your place. If you read new to old, tap on the gap button when it’s in the bottom half of the screen.

—Good golly, those Tapbots folks are clever.

James Brown in a Japanese commercial for miso. This is so spectacularly good. [via The Awl]

Shawn Blanc has an exhaustive review of the HP TouchPad

He’s a good man, and thorough.

It’s disappointing that the TouchPad seems like kind of a dud out the gate, I was hoping they would be there to keep Apple honest.

I love making the stuff, that’s sort of the core of it. I love creating the stuff. It’s so satisfying to get from the beginning to the end, from a shaky nothing idea to something that’s well formed and the audience really likes. It’s like a drug: You keep trying to do it again and again and again. I’ve learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. I remember seeing this thing, a documentary about a Los Angeles coach [John Wooden], the guy who coached UCLA to huge wins, so they couldn’t be beat for three seasons. He’s a very legendary coach, but a very unassuming guy with thick glasses. They just won and won and won. They talked about the difference between him and, like, Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi. He didn’t make winning speeches. He never made speeches about being winners and being the best, like, “This is our house,” that kind of horseshit. Never said it. He said that to focus on that, to win, win, win, is worthless. It just has no value. He’d address all his players in his little voice, “If you just listen to me, and you work on your fundamentals and you apply yourself to working on these skills, you’re probably going to be happy with the results.” I think about that all the time.

—I’m not 100% certain we deserve Louis C.K.