Headlines from August 26, 2013

The Guardian will grant the New York Times access to some of its trove of Snowden documents.
Der Spiegel releases Snowden documents that show the NSA hacked into foreign nations’ videoconferences at the UN.
At a planned Upper West Side luxury tower, rich and poor occupants will have separate entrances.
London police deploy officers with superior facial recognition abilities to spot known criminals at the Notting Hill Carnival.
Wireless providers, device makers, and the government are going to do everything they can to make you keep buying new phones.
See also: A photo record of our mass culture detritus—piles of cell phones, aluminum cans, garbage, and the like. #tmn
The oddly acted new Samsung commercial is apparently that way due to long working hours and being filmed for eventual dubbing. #video
Ben Stiller is in talks to turn Reality Bites into a series set in early-‘90s Houston. #tv
Related: Gen X once used its DIY attitude to save the world—it’s ready to do it all over again. #tmn
After hiring a consultancy, Richard Simmons is finally ready for the internet, but the internet might not be ready for him.
“He’s sincere, really loves his wife, loves his family, and is very troubled by what he calls his own same-sex attractions.” #longreads
Ed Hardy regrets selling his work to a designer who represents “everything that’s wrong with contemporary civilization.”
A 45 rpm recording of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” slowed to 33 rpm. #video
From 1946, Stanley Kubrick’s photos of the New York subway for Look magazine. #photos
A directory of direct links to delete your account from nearly every web service imaginable.
Documents show the Reagan administration knew of, but never disclosed, Saddam’s widespread use of chemical weapons.
This was the birth of the Black Chamber, the NSA’s earliest predecessor, and it would be hidden in the nondescript brownstone.
I have seen the real meaning of hate. Coptic Christians in Egypt face an uncertain future.
Related: How people live normally in a tumultuous Egypt. #photos
New Delhi court rules that lawful, consensual sex with a minor is not an offense.
The Farmer’s Almanac predicts a colder-than-average winter, with “significant snowfalls” for much of the U.S.
Astronomy photo of the day: Venus eclipses the Sun (and won’t do so again until 2117).
With beards and stubble officially having a moment, razor companies report sales are taking an unprecedented hit.
Woody Allen: “My dad didn’t even teach me how to shave—I learned that from a cabdriver.”
Excerpts from E.B. White and James Thurber’s Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do.
Anna Gunn of Breaking Bad on the online vitriol she’s endured over playing a non-submissive female character. #readthisnow
A short history of cannibis, LSD, and meth, and how they became illicit substances. #drugs
[The volunteers] remained firm: LSD absolutely had helped them solve their complex, seemingly intractable problems. #tmn
A documentary on J.D. Salinger reveals the author instructed his estate to release five new books as early as 2015.
At first I wasn’t sure at all where to begin. All the first lines of all Elmore Leonard’s novels.