Number One for 12 August 2011

The FCC won't let me be me:

• The kids are alright ... at hacking iPhones [Forbes]
  
• Deep reading is deviant behavior. Best line: "American universities are largely populated by people who don't fit either of these categories—often really smart people for whom the prospect of several hours attending to words on pages (pages of a single text) is not attractive." Yes, absolutely. I like reading a lot less now that I read a lot more. [Chronicle of Higher Ed]
  
• A reminder: It doesn't help the president to be bipartisan. [The Monkey Cage]
  
• A reminder: Wall Street was pretty stupid about the debt crisis. [Even The Liberal New Republic]
  
• How I met your mother discovers advertising newspeak. (Or, rather, the memory hole.) [Entertainment Weekly]