Written in the stars

When an app says it can read your mind, you should probably run the other way. But who are we kidding -- it's a psychic app!!! -- you have to see what it'll say. To that end, two Daily Dot reporters tried out this new service "Crystal," which scrapes up all your web data and spits out a personality profile. The creepy part: The profiles were super-accurate. But the fact that they came from public data? Now that's creepier yet.

1. Inside the longest hoax of Wikipedia's history. Blatant plug: I wrote this, Wikipedia's fascinating. It may *also* be riddled with more hoaxes and pranks than we've been calculating.

2. What happens when an on-demand company actually pays a living wage? Munchery treats its workers as employees, not contractors -- a rarity, in our post-Uber age. So far, the company's doing really well. (But it has other problems, so that could change.)

3. How Susan Miller became the Internet's astrologer. Just a guess, but: was it written in the stars?

Silly wabbit, crackers are for kids

Pocketable: "The Eternal Return of Buzzfeed" OR: what everyone's favorite/least favorite website has in common with USA Today and MTV. (4298 words/17 minutes)

Postscripts: Bb otters. Twin strangers. Long live Google's monopoly. Where Internet culture comes from and how typing ruins your memory. The code behind @SortingHat, the greatest Twitter bot of all. The science behind Vine, which gave us this skateboarding taco fall. 11 Instagram farms you should follow. A zillion sandwiches I'd like to eat. On foodies: a shot & a chaser. (I thought I liked food, but eek.) How to become a YouTube star: Step 1 -- be seventeen. On the soullessness of Facebook and the emojification of marketing. FINALLY, in the future, your insurance will know when you have sex. Not sure we're ready for that future just yet.

Until tomorrow!
@caitlindewey

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