Touring by playing performances in people's homes. Free room and board, and it's actually profitable. Everybody wins. Problems with this are: can be noisy, and you'll need a PA if you're not an acoustic band.

A very good, very important list.

The story of Chat Roulette's teenage creator. Where will it lead?

On whether Best Coast's guys-treat-me-like-shit-but-I-just-keep-crawling-back lyrical content is hindering the female experience. Read all of the follow-up Tumbls and comments to get the full perspective. It would be interesting to hear Bethany herself comment on this.

Because there's no alternative, and it is valuable. But its privacy practices are awful.

A simple theory on how we interpret music.

An insight on the limited morality of babies and the implications of that for the rest of us societal adults.

Why the reaction to the iPhone leak reflects a much-weakened press and an Apple in bed with the authorities.

Total linkbait I know but there's some useful stuff here.

Using CSS to detect device size (for things like iPads and iPhones).

This is exactly why Instapaper is so incredible: "Instapaper makes me more productive, everywhere. On my desktop it dismisses distractions. On the go it transmutes idle time to knowledge. It remembers things I forget, but it has never become a new todo entry on my list. If all my apps had this power, I would be utterly unstoppable."

There's two big lessons here: 1. Fame makes people do and say crazy things, and other famous people tend to give an equally outrageous reaction to it. 2. Christianity is a joke.

Nitsuh Abebe on why being wrong doesn't make you a bad person, and why 'support' is weak sauce.

Attempting to answer the question, "what is white culture?" and reporting on those who have tackled it before.

There are two problems with this piece that I have noticed right off the bat and later would like to comment on. One, he states that no research has actually shown that going for better teachers makes a difference, but that's not true (see the Economist article I linked to earlier regarding TFA's study etc.). I think the phrasing is ambiguous anyway, but there's a straw man here. Two, he seems to imply that bettering teachers is a quixotic goal, but isn't "bettering America" just as ambitious? He is essentially suggesting that we wage a war on poverty to get our children better educational environments. I don't disagree, but I think that finding top-notch teachers to bridge the gap while we fix that problem for the next fifty years is a good idea.

Joe Clark on why those complaining about the closedness of the iPad are complaining about a non-problem. "Open source has nothing to teach literature or indeed any artistic creation, since talent doesn’t scale as you give more and more developers check-in access to the version-control system set up for your novel."

The extent to which large 'environmentalism' groups are actually destroying the environment with their corporate connections.

Me fucking around on Paul's guitar during a lull at practice.

Plain and simple: software patents don't work because there's too much software and not enough people who know about it.

Great free releases. Post-pop, lo-fi, experimental, etc. etc.

Fantastic collage/ambient label whose releases are mostly free.

A fun tenori-on sort of musical instrument.

With photos so you can identify all!

Nitsuh Abebe on exactly why people need to stop talking about how "white" Vampire Weekend are.

On what Farmville is (not a game) and what it means (nothing good).

"Make your own Glitter Graphics."

On the effectiveness of teachers.