Dotted Lines: Is that Moby or Michael Stipe?
Every evening, the Daily Dot delivers a selection of links worth clicking from around the Web, along with the day’s must-see image or video. We call it Dotted Lines.
-Wired’s Quinn Norton gives one of the clearest explanations yet on how Anonymous transitioned from causing chaos “for the lulz” to engaging in political and social activism.
-In the midst of a U.S. heatwave, the Weather Channel buys up Weather Underground, a favorite online destination of hardcore weather fans.
-Google’s latest round of “spring cleaning” puts the final nail in the coffin of Google Video, moving all video content to YouTube.
-The Internet—with a little prodding from the goons at venerable humor site Something Awful—has conspired to send rapper Pitbull to a Wal-Mart in Alaska.
-Twitter engineer Ian Chan took 14th place at the World Series of Poker today, and live-tweeted the entire event (including a couple of bluffs).
-Rumors that former presidential candidate Rick Santorum thought gay dating app Grindr was actually an app for locating coffee shops turn out to be bogus.
Above: Adam Buxton’s “Moby Song” is almost certainly the best video about identifying bald celebrities you’ll see all day.
On The Dot: July 4, 2012
-5 of the best supercuts on YouTube
-Today on Reddit: PC building for dummies
-European Parliament begins final vote on ACTA
-Twitter account retweets debit card photos
-Chinese “New York Times” blocked on Sina Weibo
-YouTube makeup star Lauren Luke posts PSA against domestic abuse
-Struggling school turns to eBay to keep doors open
-Survey: Facebook photo sabotage is a common occurrence
-Etsy’s “tribal” good prompt debate over cultural appropriation
