Emoticons have no feelings - It's been 30 years since internet dwellers stopped bothering to communicate like adults and started relying on pictorial representations of emotions instead of using language properly. Er, :-) [BBC]
Picture this – A fictional tech billionaire with fictional terminal cancer decides to use his fictional billions to build a mega-hospital staffed by the world's best doctors (Greene, Sloan, Kennedy, Evil) in an effort to save his fictional self. And cue the violins as he decides he should probably also save others and thus his own soul or whatever. No wonder they're describing this as-yet-untitled CBS medical drama as 'Jobsian'. [Deadline]
Potting the Brown – Wherever Chris Brown goes, controversy seems to follow so wouldn't it be good if somehow he just disappeared? Well, that's what can happen – all you need is Chrome and the Brownout app that erases any mention of Brown from the web. [NME]
It's a shoe-in – GPS + LEDs + shoes = one masterful way of getting home from the pub without losing your way. Excellent stuff. [Mashable]
Game over – Hit the source link for a fascinating long read about the phenomenon of hardcore gamers keeling over after long sessions at the control pad – and a cautionary tale. [Eurogamer]
Stranger than e-fiction – Digital fiction sales shot up by 188% in value in the first half of 2012 (compared to the first half of 2011) – and given that children's digital book sales were up by a similar amount, it can't all be down to 50 Shades of Grey. [The Bookseller]