June 27, 2013: Morning
- Ex-Texas warden reflects after 140 executions.
- Redskins receiver Donté Stallworth takes to Twitter to defend SCOTUS rulings against DOMA and Prop 8.
- The reason you keep seeing more self-checkout lines is because that's how you're going to be buying things at stores now.
- The new state of self-tracking: The data you store could be used against you, but it's the future of health care.
- See also: Backtracking through Paris using a Fitbit.
- What it's like to play Pac-Man in first-person.
- Drummer Alan Myers, Devo's "human metronome," has died.
- Paula Deen's ratings stagnation.
- Last month, a group of Toronto men wanted to film a Rob Ford lookalike in an attempt to discredit the crack-smoking video.
- From a semantic's perspective, the selfie is a "little self" — a small, friendly bit of the self.
- Related: How Amanda Bynes and the Teens saved the human race.
- Cutlery alters food perceptions.
- Map of the world delineated by airports: a "celebration of our incredible accomplishments" and a sad vision of economic inequality.
- Romantic comedy with emphasis on "girl power" is an unlikely yet very likely box-office success in Pyongyang.
- New York's Lower East Side had more bars per block in 1870 than it does today.