 | ICYMI, parental (and sometimes grand-parental) guides to all the cool acronyms teens use to text about rainbow parties and whip-its have become a business unto themselves. We've collected many of them here, lest any improbable phrasing go unabbreviated and any parent unwarned. |
 | A group called @KUBoobs has started a Twitter sensation, asking for University of Kansas students to send them photos of their boobs for good luck before games. Now dozens of other colleges have Twitter accounts asking for students to do the same. |
 | Flickr Commons compiled a gallery of its most popular photos to celebrate the site's fifth birthday. (via the Library of Congress & Flickr Commons) |
 | In a previously unpublished essay, the late Aaron Swartz explains how he came to be part of the fight to save the Internet. "For me, it all started with a phone call." |
 | The Red Planet is giving up her secrets at an alarming rate. Scientists at the European Space Agency recently showed off the latest evidence that Mars was once very Earthlike. |
 | An astronaut shows up how to groom in space. From space. |
 | Snapchat: it's not only for sexting. Ok, it's a lot for that, but also for some other stuff. |
 | The fact that you can't hide from Facebook search anymore, as the New York Times noted when the social network changed its privacy policy a month ago, suddenly has new relevance with the launch of Graph Search. |
 | Of all the lines in Orin Kerr's followup legal analysis on prosecutorial discretion in the Aaron Swartz case, it's this one that stuck out the most to me: "What’s unusual about the Swartz case is that it involved a highly charismatic defendant with very powerful friends in a position to object to these common practices." |
 | With the advent of Big Data, we enter a new era of criticism: Big Crit. "We can ask what the big picture actually means, and—no less important—we can criticize those who claim to know. We can, in other words, be 'Big Critics'; we can do 'Big Crit.'" |
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