Friday morning coffee reads

A regular roundup of interesting stories to enjoy with your Friday morning coffee.

  1. Live Nation rigged an entire concert to measure the biometrics of music fans.
  2. The trouble with Johnny Depp.
  3. Shrines, gardens, 7-Elevens: A Japan journal.
  4. Thousands of Swedes are inserting microchips into themselves – here’s why.
  5. Can Silicon Valley disrupt how we construct buildings?
  6. Exploring the digital ruins of Second Life.
  7. Technology in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  8. The uncertain fate of the much-loved puffin.
  9. Where have America’s truck drivers gone?
  10. Spite buildings: When human grudges get architectural.
  11. Bad .Men at .Work. Please don’t .Click.
  12. The physicists watched a clock tick for 14 years straight.