The crew manning the Katie Hopkins Klaxon is still being kept busy. 78% of Mirror readers think she's gone too far. For Hopkins, that is presumably mission accomplished.

• Who said it: Katie Hopkins or Stormfront?
• Katie Hopkins and the Dangers of Obverse Journalism
• A collection of probably made-up Richard Madeley quotes

Inviting the Internet to 'meme' you is probably never a good idea, especially if you're Bill Cosby and you have multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault following you around.

I think that everybody sexts. Not everyone sends nude photos, of course, for a variety of reasons. But many people I’ve talked to define a sext as anything sent with sexual intent, be it a suggestive Gchat exchange, a racy photo, a suggestive Snapchat, or even those aqua-blue droplets of sweat emoji.

Everybody sexts

Worth Pondering

Eye Candy

Chuck Anderson

Totally Confused

Mayonnaise wars, 600 years of selfies, DogVaCay, vacation breasts and wacky world leader costumes.

Finally, from the 'it can't possibly be any good' desk, the Game of Thrones video game.

Yours as always, @loughlin

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“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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Did you know there were extremely posh corners of the Internet, and you're not invited? Unless you can stump up the cash, of course.

The Feds are looking for more from Facebook, while Twitter belatedly does something about it's rather large harassment issues. Asking someone else to take care of it for you is better than nothing, I suppose.

Meanwhile, in surprising news, Buzzfeed doesn't do clickbait. Apparently.

• Clickbait PhD

The Internet Of Things (That Shout At You Or Watch You)

Somebody, somewhere might have naked pictures of you that your own machines have taken. Now you can buy yet another device that will shout instructions at you. Thanks Amazon, hope it works out as well as your phone …

• Extra Echo

Oireland

Regarding the ECB letters, and the general shenanigans back then, this is worth revisiting.

The effect of this fantasy is plain to see in TV3’s The Apprentice, a brilliant satire on what now passes for an Irish business culture, a world where commitment, hunger and determination (all synonyms for wanting) are valued above skill, intelligence or any other real-world attribute.

Fergal Crehan, from 2010.

Worth Pondering

Eye Candy

Movie title typos, illustrated. London, Instagrammed and timelapsed.

Totally Confused

My name is NOT Elizabeth Gallagher, Facebook, you're NOT my mother, no dog walking for you, no smart phone and just stop looking at your phone.

Finally, which lemur are you?

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Took a mini-break from the newsletter earlier this week so I could pay attention to the stream of breathless tweets emerging from the Web Summit. People were impressed by a bridge made from shipping containers, balloons, everything a man from Twitter said, and just the overall humblingness of being there.

People were less impressed by the sad old conference reliables of misogyny, poxy WiFi and the discriminatory caste system when it came to getting free grub.

All of this was eclipsed by renaissance man Enda Kenny and his “Dig-ee-taaahl Sum-maht” song and dance routine (watch the hand!)

Bonus Summit: Can you solve a hurdle?

Anyway, that will all be over soon. If you read just one thing this week, make it ‘The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing. It’s a really poignant and beautiful piece of writing.

Won’t Somebody Think Of The Intelligence Agencies?

Spying is hard. It’s just plain mean to make spying harder by not handing information over to spies.

• Doc Searls on what a nice social network might look like
• What’s the use of worrying anyway, as it turns out your TV is watching you, unblinkingly

For relaxing times, make it Suntory time

Worth Pondering

Eye Candy

Kowloon cross section

Totally Confused

Better security questions, Tupperware empire, the 36 people who run Wikipedia, why innocent people plead guilty and how murderers use Facebook.

Finally, in absurd Kickstarters that will probably go on to be incredibly successful because what do I know, Mousr! In fact, it’ll probably end up on a future edition of this list.

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