When you use the Internet, you entrust your conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what do these companies do when the government demands your private information? Do they stand with you? Do they let you know what’s going on?

We should be a lot more scared of AT&T and Verizon than we are of Google and Facebook.

ᔥ io9:

Nina Katchadourian borrows the words she uses for her unusual poetry from the spines of books. She arranges those spines, book upon book, so that they form brief poems that are often insightful and surprising.

Funny and profound.

ᔥ Agent Savant:

But, in a retro move, King has announced that his next novel, Joyland, will be available in print only! That’s right. I never saw that coming. Independent publisher, Hard Case Crime, the company that published King’s The Colorado Kid in 2005 (the basis for the SyFy channel television series “Haven”), will publish Joyland on June 4th in print only.

Hard Case Crime publishes a lot of contemporary pulp novels, including ones written by my favorite author, Lawrence Block.

I love this idea. E-book readers and tablets don’t capture the fun, retro, “throw-away” feel of a dime store paperback. And this cover is a true gem.

Can’t wait to pick this up next month.

ᔥ Marissa Mayer’s Tumblr blog:

We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.

Using Tumblr to get the official message out - nice touch.

A catalog of 49 drinks culled from great works of film and literature, depicting everything from Philip Marlowe’s Gin Gimlet to Fredo Corleone’s Banana Daiquiri to the simple yet effective Buttermaker Boilermaker.