August 26, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- 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.
- The oddly acted new Samsung commercial is apparently that way due to long working hours and being filmed for eventual dubbing.
- Ben Stiller is in talks to turn Reality Bites into a series set in early-'90s Houston.
- Related: Gen X once used its DIY attitude to save the world—it's ready to do it all over again.
- 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."
- 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.
- From 1946, Stanley Kubrick's photos of the New York subway for Look magazine.
- A directory of direct links to delete your account from nearly every web service imaginable.
