Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog

One of the most fascinating things I have read on the Internet in a long time is this interview with an anonymous Facebook employee, where they talk largely about privacy, and a little bit about weirdos on Facebook. It’s worth reading.

(Audrey Deluxe performs Burlesque as Boba Fett. Photo by Shannon Cottrell. More here.)

New York. Subway. No pants. That’s just the way they roll.

Book burning might be out of fashion, but thepublicdomain.org argues here that gradual changes to copyright law over the past fifty years are accomplishing the same thing.

Scientific American would like to lead off your Friday by telling you about the origins of superstition . Or, as they like to call it, agenticity, which sounds either less hokey, more clinical, or just like a made-up word.

Ladies Day at the Royal Ascot has brought out the greatest hats of England:

Brooksville, Florida has instituted a new dress code. Included in the new code: employees must now wear underpants, and cover open wounds.

Photographers in the UK, be warned: you can be hassled for taking photos of parked police vans. Photographers in Vancouver, worry not: police cannot take away your camera or delete your photos without a warrant (or sufficient cause to arrest you, in which case they are unlikely to begin destroying evidence).