Linkwad.

Honeymoon photos coming soon! Promise.

• I don’t know if I buy the “Internet is killing serendipity” argument, but this essay makes the case as well as any I’ve read.
• The history of the reeeeemiiiiiix.
• Just FYI: “Everyone else is just as bad” isn’t really a good defense, Internet commentariat.
• Obviously, the answer to “Why do we need SOPA?” is, “We don’t.”
• Pitchfork’s impact and history. For you lazy-ass TL;DR types: “A Pitchfork review may ignore history, aesthetics, or the basic technical aspects of tonal music, but it will almost never fail to include a detailed taxonomy of the current hype cycle and media environment. This is a small, petty way of thinking about a large art.”

Linkwad.

• The Situation’s sublimely awful new tuxedo line, “Down to Formal.” Via the Silentist.
• If you haven’t seen the Onion’s Steve Jobs obituary, you should rectify that error immediately.
• A profile of Clipper City founder Hugh Sisson.
• The coolest use of popsicle sticks ever, via Colossal.

Linkwad.

1. Yes. I second everything about this yoga post.
2. Tweets faster than earthquakes, video edition. Via Ezra Klein.
3. It matters that Tim Cook’s gay, says Felix Salmon.
4. First Circuit Court vigorously upholds the right to record police officers.

Linkwad.

1. Could the dentist’s drill go the way of bloodletting?
2. Didja hear about Steve Jobs? Didja didja didja? Anyway, here’s the quotable Steve Jobs.
3. I guess I slept through the aftershock from Tuesday’s quake.
4. The Baltimore Grand Prix looks like it’s crashing and burning, even before the green flag drops.

Linkwad.

1. Apple’s next iPhone will launch in early October, might or might not have LTE.
2. Slate on the BART mobile-phone shutdown: “the security of the state, as a goal, is as amoral as the machinery behind it.”
3. Even truer now than it was in 2007: young people are being screwed by the boomers.
4. How the world failed Haiti. Related: Slavoj Zizek’s thoughts on charity.