Bit late today. Not that I forgot it was Monday or anything, oh no, certainly not 
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- The Nazi Anatomists - "How the corpses of Hitler's victims are still haunting modern science—and American abortion politics." Emily Bazelon on the medical researchers who made use of the bodies of those executed by the Nazis.
- A Parable of Disconnectedness - "The report below comes from Glenna Hall... She writes about an episode this week in which she and her community lost virtually all contact with the outside world -- by cellphone, landline, and Internet. Because they were on an island, they couldn't just drive someplace else." The horror
- You have 1 items - "Why bother? Nobody else does. And besides it wouldn’t make that much difference if we did it anyway." Hoss Gifford on minor irritations in the user experience.
- Aldo Nadi's Duel - An Italian fencer's account of accepting a challenge to a duel in the early 20th century: "Were I to be defeated, my professional career would be seriously jeopardized. Should I kill or seriously wound my opponent, public opinion would unjustly react against me. i was on the spot. I had to wound not too severely a man who knew much more about dueling than I, and who was by no means a third-rate fencer--an almost impossible assignment in the excitement and self-preservation of a duel."
- New homeowner opens shelter sealed since 1961 - Craig Denham bought a house that used to belong to a USAF colonel: "In the backyard of the creative director's mid-century modern home in West Lake Hills is a 1961 fallout shelter in near-mint condition."
- It’s up to you. - "Unlike most people, I have many vivid memories from my childhood... I remember being beaten with a wooden spoon, or leather belt, or whatever was handy, and I remember the crazed look she’d get in her eyes, and I remember the time she dislocated a finger from striking me so hard, and all the times later over the years she used to bring up that injury and laugh about it, like it was our little family joke." Amy Hoy on dealing with memories of prolonged, violent abuse as a child.
- Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business - "Everpix was great. This is how it died." Casey Newton on the decline and fall of Everpix.
- What Long Hours Really Mean - "In the tech and design sectors there’s a lot of folks working long hours, like 70+ hours a week. There’s a certain badge-of-honor-martyr-complex-thing that comes along with it. But let’s set the record straight." One to print out and leave where the permies can find it
- All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go - "In a jobs economy that has become something of a grim joke, nothing seems quite so bleak as the digital job seeker’s all-but-obligatory LinkedIn account... Instead of facing the prospect of interfacing professionally with a nine-figure user base with a renewed spring in their step, harried victims of economic redundancy are more likely to greet their latest LinkedIn updates with a muttered variation of, “Oh tulip, I’d better send out some more résumés.”" Ann Friedman examines the various techniques LinkedIn uses in its attempts to appear relevant and useful.
- The Record Books - Albums re-imagined by Christophe Gowans as books, such as Abbey Road in a style reminiscent of the designs Penguin used for the novels of Graham Greene in the mid-Seventies: "Classic paperback. The story of two catholic sisters growing up in a swiftly changing post-war Britain. Guess what? It doesn’t end well."
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