The future

• The Washington Post delivers one of the all-time finest editorial corrections after it was brought to their attention that Public Enemy’s “911 Is A Joke,” released in 1990, was not written in mockery of the events of September 11, 2001. The revised article actually casts PE in a positive light otherwise. The mistaken tune and its lyrics. And who among us could forget the Carlton Banks version?
• The Daily Mirror’s associate editor pledges to put SEO in its place after becoming sick of finding his site awash in traffic but bereft of readers. We say it a thousand times a day just to clean our teeth: good SEO is a tactic, not a goal. Having the galaxy’s highest-ranking website doesn’t mean anything if you’re not connecting with people.
• Self-explanatory! Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them

Special bonus thing.

I continue to marvel at the amount of time certain individuals are able to set aside for making Super Mario levels that play songs. This one features four Marios gallivanting simultaneously on four custom levels. They add up to recreate the four parts of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Can you believe this?

Lightning round.

We were linked to by the Wall Street Journal a couple days ago!

• Who wouldn’t want to run a company just like Netflix’s after reading this leaked internal memo?
• Considering Slate’s habitual contrarianism, you’d think their readers would come up with more interesting end-of-America scenarios than these. Arab-Israel war will end America? I wasn’t aware America had been relocated. The toy these uncreative types used to come up with the seeds of the apocalypse is pretty fun to fiddle with for at least three minutes, but here’s the real prize: a social network that shows which scenarios were linked to each other. Apparently, Robot Overlords connects to Alien Invasion. Does that mean the robots are in charge of the aliens, too? The future is rich with intrigue. Still, this week’s finest mother lode of semi-useless data: How Different Groups Spend Their Day. Speaking of spending time, if you can’t waste a solid twenty minutes with this chart, then you are just not cut out for charts of any kind.
• Surely you happened to see this Coke vs. Pepsi logo nonsense about 26 times this week. It intends to show, for some reason, that Pepsi’s logo changes every eight minutes while Coke is a solid rock. Here’s the real story: Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition. Survey says Coke changes its logo every bit as often as Pepsi does. And Coke even changed, uh, Coke itself at one point, lest we forget. Who knew Coke had fanboys?