I’ve been looking forward to Marco’s take on things since the Tumblr to Yahoo acquisition news came out and I was not disappointed. A great candid and humble look back on his time at Tumblr. Now hopefully John and Casey can get him to discuss things a little further on this week’s Accidental Tech Podcast too.

At the end of another heartbreaking NBA result, David Stern taunted us.

“This is going to be short for me,” he told reporters in Dallas on Wednesday. “I have a game to get to in Oklahoma City.”

Ouch.

Ouch, indeed.

Commander Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity video is awesome and it’s arguably nowhere near the most expensive music video ever made.

The Class AAA affiliate of the Detroit Tigers will wear special edition Chewbacca-inspired jerseys on Saturday and Sunday (i.e. “Revenge of the Fifth”), with the uniforms to be made available via an in-game silent auction for charity. The team will also serve Yoda Soda and give 3,000 kazoos away for the fans to perform a post-game Star Wars-themed concert.

Google Glass today is an imperfect prototype of the future where value does not yet outweigh pain.

Good breakdown of where Google Glass is now and its potential for the future.

Looks like a great update to an already excellent image editing tool from indie mac developer Gus Mueller. I’m going to have track down my previous serial number and get upgraded.

“The look that Dwyane Wade gave me was worth it all,” Battier said. “He didn’t know what the heck I was thinking. I think he was embarrassed for me, which is good because he needs to be a little more embarrassed sometimes.”

“Every cleanly fielded ground ball sends a pretty strong message that Eduardo is trying to upstage Derek,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who blasted Nunez for having the audacity to turn a double play without a throwing error, claiming the commonplace display of physical capabilities clearly reminds fans of Jeter’s advancing age and declining skills.

Sometimes the Onion hits it out of the park.

I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health and longevity as the top priority, with incentives to keep it going well into the future. I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.

Seems like a good move for a guy that has a plethora of good ideas and limited resources to develop and implement them all.

Apple’s servers performed admirably…for about the first 5 seconds after tickets went on sale. After that, it was a crapshoot. Even if the tickets had sold out in an hour, it’d still effectively be a lottery if that hour was filled with server errors. You’d “win” if you happened to get through the purchase process with no errors.

An actual lottery, pre-announced, with no time pressure for entry, would be more equitable than what happened yesterday. That’s what I recommend for next year.

That would solve the ticket fairness problem, but do nothing for the inherent brokenness of a conference and developer relations program that has not scaled with demand.