Our roundup of the best and the worst on the network at the end of the world. See last week's here.And it’s beautiful. The Guardian's year-end review isn't too shabby either. Plus, 2012 in 50 GIFs.It was only a matter of time, after the once fledgling microfinance site started raising money in the tens of millions. But while 84 percent of the top funded projects are late, Kickstarter reminds us that it's a platform, not a marketplace.Instead, it's a "pain distractor."Racial stereotyping apps like 'Make Me Asian' and 'Make Me Indian' make their way into Google's marketplace because of the company's lax, open approach, and people are pissed.Life imitating art. NASA's new Z-1 spacesuit prototype, designed for deep-space exploration, looks familiar.They may have updated their terms of services after the initial backlash, but the Facebook owned entity is still desperately trying to monetize our pics.Scientists have discovered spiders that build elaborate spider decoys in the Peruvian Amazon.Woman wants a futuristic face-lift with stem cells. Instead, her eyes get clamped shut from the tiny bones growing in her eyelid and tissue surrounding her eye.The new state, called quantum state liquid (QSL) exhibits a phenomenon called long-range entanglement.Markets tank everywhere.Twitter v. Facebook (and Instagram) is the new Apple v. Microsoft.From 250,000 to 2.5 million.
ONE: The NYTimes reinvents the webpage
ZERO: The Kickstarter backlash has begun
ONE: Marijuana, not the pain killer we expected
ZERO: Protest over racist apps
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