- The most popular comment on Gawker’s vine from space report is a theory about butt plugs. [Gawker]
- Today’s Google doodle is designed by an 11 year old from New York. [BetaBeat]
- Christie’s is offering up Vermeer’s 1655 “Saint Praxedis”, one of only two of his works in private hands. Vermeer made a total of 34 paintings in his lifetime. The piece is valued at £6-8 million, which compared to say, Andy Warhol’s “Silver Car Crash” painting that went for $109 Million last year at Sotheby’s and well, you may end up scratching your head. [via: @kellycrow]
- In case you missed this: A collector Q&A with the New Criterion’s James Panero. [Supreme Fiction]
- NEW INC is hiring a community manager. [NYFA]
- A computer successfully convince 33 percent of the judges at the University of Reading that it was a 13 year old boy, thus passing the Turing Test. It was the 60th anniversary of Turing’s death. [Gawker]
- Humans have spent more time watching Gangnam Style than they have writing all of Wikipedia. Is comparing apples to oranges? Dylan Matthews thinks so; we make things so people can spend more time enjoying and using these things. Matthews cites Stonehenge and The London Olympic Park as examples. [Vox]
Monday Links: Gangnam Style Meets Stonehenge
by Paddy Johnson and Matthew Leifheit on June 9, 2014 Massive Links
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