• Collector buys a camera at an antique shop — and it’s filled with undeveloped pics from World War I: Wow! And more here.
• Pauline Phillips, Flinty Adviser to Millions as Dear Abby, Dies at 94: I loved Dear Abby! Goodbye…
• Wikipedia: Seppuku (hara-hari): I had to look up how to spell hara-kari last week, and reading this Wikipedia entry on the practice… well, let’s just add “NOT DOING THIS CRAZY SHIT” to the list of what’s good about America.
• IBM’s Watson Memorized the Entire ‘Urban Dictionary,’ Then His Overlords Had to Delete It: Whoops! Also, the authors of the article must have searched long and hard for such a benign example from the Urban Dictionary.
• People Magazine, Then and Now: Wow, People used to be a decent magazine.
• This Is Awkward: The Politics of a Chinese Orgy: Best link of the day, courtesy of Jason Stotts of Erosophia. (Who else?)
• This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For: The White House responds to the petition to build a Death Star. It’s awesome.
• Amnesia and the Self That Remains When Memory Is Lost: Here’s a fascinating story of a man with a temporal lobe tumor that destroyed his memories, but yet his basic personality remained intact. People are not just the sum of their experiences.

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