Perhaps ideal for the ORF.at grid, too?

Fitty scales up (or down) text so it fits perfectly to its parent container. Ideal for flexible and responsive websites. (Via t3n.de.)

Infographic: 101 Fascinating Facts About Domain Names (via t3n.de).

Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It?

(…) when you examine the types of mistakes the system made, black defendants were almost twice as likely to be mislabeled as likely to reoffend — and potentially treated more harshly by the criminal justice system as a result.

Hedy and Alexa.

The butterfly effect: How a derailed banking career in 19th century Vienna led to the mass online ordering of dollhouses in January.

Life in plastic, it's fantastic!

There's Another Huge Plastic Garbage Patch in The Pacific Ocean.

Reminds me of Vienna’s Danube channel.

Revealed: the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London.

Pseudo-public space – squares and parks that seem public but are actually owned by corporations – has quietly spread across cities worldwide. As the Guardian maps its full extent in London for the first time, Jack Shenker reports on a new culture of secrecy and control, where private security guards can remove you for protesting, taking photos ... or just looking scruffy

Inside Cuba’s DIY Internet Revolution.

The real irony is that if the internet does topple the government and bring democracy to this democracy-starved island, it’ll happen just as democracy itself is being undone by Facebook and every other filter-bubble-­creating, political-polarization-amplifying, algorithm-optimized feed. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves, and also oversimplifying, because the Cubans—the very resourceful Cubans—haven’t exactly been sitting around sipping mojitos as the digital revolución passed them by. They have workarounds. Oh, do they have workarounds.

An anagrammatical post.

“Born a refugee at the end of the last millennium, in a family scattered through three continents, five languages and three (or four) religions, Aladin Fenster aka @aladin first surfaced on Instagram in the very days following the birth of the social network.”

Petition to open source Flash spec.

Not sure about this. I maintain a virtual machine running WinXP and the Shockwave plugins for my ancient CD-Roms and Flash applets. Works pretty rad and did not need any care at all so far. But perhaps this solution does not work for everyone?

POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site.