Headlines from June 4, 2012

Wifi owners engage in amateur campaigning through network naming.
Google warns Chinese users when a search term is likely to get their internet disconnected.
Shanghai stock exchange falls 64.89 on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square—China blocks searches for news of today’s market close.
Related: Jonathan Gourlay returns to Tiananmen Square to find it scrubbed clean—except for the smog and ghosts. #tmn
Yes, you could suffocate if you wore it for too long. Q&A with a woman who dresses as a doll, complete with head mask.
Primer on the history of excretion in psychology.
George Lucas names producer Kathleen Kennedy his successor at Lucasfilm.
Moonrise Kingdom: the first film shot in Instagram.
Self-tracking will only grow more frictionless and invisible. Joanne McNeil on the here, now, and next of lifelogging.
New evidence reveals what Amelia Earhart’s last days on a remote Pacific island may have been like.
Now 49, the subject of the “Napalm Girl photo” from Vietnam discusses a life of seeking normalcy.
Stunning: National parks seen from space. #photos
Participants were more likely to incorrectly categorize a straight man as gay than to incorrectly categorize a straight woman as gay.
Speaking effectively to each other is apparently harder than we realize.
U.S. and Pakistan locked in negotiations while drone “blitz” continues.
Mick Jagger and Arcade Fire help Saturday Night Live say goodbye to Kristen Wiig. #video
Pop music is longer, slower, sadder—only 43.5% of recent hits are written in a major mode.
Round-up from the New York Times of 32 inventions “that will change your tomorrow.”
Food trucks find customers in Paris.
Q&A with TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin on traveling around America to ask about the French.
See also: “Our French Connection.”
Disney uses “queuing theory” to pad the wait times for its rides so people feel happy when they board sooner than expected.
China uses a universal plug socket; it’s time for the rest of us to adopt it. #opinions
Computers play riskier, more inventive chess because they have more “contempt”—a technical term—for each other.
Fascinating survey of latest robots developed for the military.
Light-bondage favorite 50 Shades of Grey illustrated with stock photography.
See also: 50 Shades of Grey‘s 50 worst synonyms.
Martin Amis on moving to Brooklyn, hoping to emulate Philip Roth’s New York-inspired late burst.
Mary Ellen Mark photos from Mumbai’s Red Light district in the 1970s.