“I fly all around the world and go to conferences.” Let that sink in, because it doesn’t seem to be part of a parody, or an excerpt from a conference logistics workers’ diary but an actual part of an actual New Yorker profile. Still, “like Phyliss Diller or Beetlejuice” is one hell of a hairstyle.

Facebook seems to feel it deserves some kind of cookie for giving its users a smidgen more control over what updates they see, from entities whose updates they’ve decided they want to see.

Obligatory link to ‘Too Many Cooks’.

Worth Pondering

Eye Candy, Berlin Mauerfall Edition

The 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down was celebrated at the weekend. There were many balloons involved.

• InFocus, ‘The Berlin Wall, 25 Years After the Fall’
• A History of the Berlin Wall through maps
• The Berlin Wall of Sound
• ‘Why the fall of the Berlin Wall led to the world we know today’
• ‘Our own private Germany’

Totally Confused

Hiding in plain e-sight, an accurate org chart, Orwell trending in Egypt, a truly disturbing Vine and a humiliated grammar bully

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