April 16, 2012: Afternoon
- New online dating sites embrace face-to-face singles events over scrolling through profiles.
- Germans build a hand-cranked barrel organ out of Legos that plays the Star Wars theme.
- Arguing that Tolstoy and Aristotle would consider meme culture an art form.
- Ten years in, Andy Baio's favorite Waxy.org posts.
- The New Aesthetic needs to get weirder.
- Facebook might be making us lonely, but none of us are going to be the one to pull the plug.
- Sean Bonner quits Facebook.
- While dissecting the Social Media Exile essay genre, a language expert considers penning his own.
- Cybercops on the rise as attention-seeking fugitives increasingly use social media to brag about their crimes.
- How police used forensic software to reconstruct a blind woman's "invisible manuscript."
- X-rays of the Prado's version of the Mona Lisa show the painter was looking over Leonardo's shoulder as he created the original.
- Tupac performs at Coachella via hologram.