Everyone's reading the Spike Jonze profile from the coming weekend's Times Magazine, so you probably should, too.

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Yiying Lu, designer of Twitter's Fail Whale (or the adorable image that pops up when Twitter is overloaded), was featured in New York Times Magazine.

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It's that time of year! Your favorite New York Times magazine issue features a whole slew of essays about the interesting ideas that people have come up with during 2008.

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New York Times Magazine publishes a piece about the joy of “cubing videos”. Here is every video mentioned in the article (and more!) for your geeky enjoyment.

Nicole Wong is like Google's Secretary-of-State. She negotiates on Google's behalf with repressive governments that want to limit free speech. This is a real problem: Turkey banned YouTube, Saudi Arabia banned Orkut, and blogger is banned in Pakistan. Nicole Wong cuts the deals that gets these services running again. For example Ms. Wong managed to get YouTube unblocked in Thailand by agreeing to remove videos that make fun of the Thai King.

The Best Links:

1. Google’s Gatekeepers in New York Times Magazine
2. Nicole Wong Speaks To Senate Judiciary Committee on Importance of Free Speech and Internet Freedom
3. Nicole Wong on Google Privacy Policy
4. Nicole Wong’s Blog Post: Google Fights US DoJ and Wins

Griffith — the subject of a profile in this weekend's NY Times magazine — is the disruptive technologist behind WikiScanner who says that one of his missions in life is “to create minor public-relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike.”

The Best Links:

1. Griffith’s Home Page
2. WikiScanner: List Anonymous Wikipedia Edits from Interesting Organizations
3. Wired On Virgil’s Awesome WikiScanner
4. Report on Griffith Being Served Cease-And-Desist Orders
5. All About Virgil Griffith’s Relationship With Blackboard, Inc.