Your Republican cognitive dissonance chart of the day.

This is weird.

And somehow, in its awesome mediocrity, entirely appropriate.

TED talks are stupid for the same reason the curator’s code is stupid: mutual admiration societies for people who think mere thinking—about anything at all, really!—oughtta get a gold star.

—Matt Langer has a pretty good rant about TED but really about real-life filter bubbles.

A source familiar with the automaker’s plans said GM’s marketing executives decided Facebook’s ads had little impact on consumers.

—GM is pulling their ads from Facebook.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Depression and suicide are tragic. The AFSP is trying to understand and prevent them both, to reach out to people dealing with mental disorders and to help people who are impacted by suicide.

Not quite a year ago, my now-wife and I got our marriage license in this very spot. The kind woman behind the counter at about nine seconds in was the one who filled out the paperwork for us. Our friend Albert was there to sign off on it. A day later we’d make it official at a very small ceremony in my parents’ backyard. It was lovely.

We were able to do all of that because our particular genetics mean that we, as a woman and a man, are attracted to and love each other. I have no doubt that all of the people who showed up at the courthouse in my hometown love each other just as much as I love my wife. It breaks my heart that they can’t have that love and commitment recognized.

I love this chart of combinations of muesli ingredients so very much. The backstory is that a German make-your-own muesli startup (mymuesli.com of course) commissioned a data visualization of how their customers combined their muesli. It gets interesting with this chart showing a “surprise” factor, roughly translated as whether a particular combination of ingredients went together better (or worse) than might be expected.

So good! [via Tiff’s excellent journogeekery blog]

The Data Journalism Handbook looks awesome

Collaborative, open source book from the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New York Times, ProPublica, and others. More of this please.

Microsoft’s Metro theme shows what’s wrong with jQuery Mobile

I’m not trying to pick on Microsoft here, the problem that I have with jQuery mobile is that it’s a fairly monolithic approach to mobile web design. The default, iOSish theme is equally terrible. Build websites (with something like Zepto.js), not fake OS facades.

nprmusic:

Master of My Make-Believe has its playfully bouncy moments — Santi White says it’s inspired in part by a trip to Jamaica — but its overall tone is one of severity, even solemnity. It’s as if pop music caught up with Santigold’s sound, and she tacked left to avoid the glare.

Stream Master of My Make-Believe now.

Oh, YES. New Santogold Sant_i_gold. Needs Flash, etc. etc.

Thanks, Tiff!