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During the Games an aircraft carrier will dock on the Thames. Surface-to-air missile systems will scan the skies. Unmanned drones, thankfully without lethal missiles, will loiter above the gleaming stadiums and opening and closing ceremonies. RAF Typhoon Eurofighters will fly from RAF Northolt. A thousand armed US diplomatic and FBI agents and 55 dog teams will patrol an Olympic zone partitioned off from the wider city by an 11-mile, £80m, 5,000-volt electric fence.

Good times.

[Via Jim Coudal]

Dell is distancing itself from the misogynistic rant of Danish entertainer Mads Christensen, made during a European event last week.

[Via I Am Kel]

Reverse Engineering Rock and Roll: Capo is a revolutionary tool that helps you learn the music in your iTunes library. Available for your Mac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad.

Download the free trial for the Mac at http://capoapp.com, and check out the new mastering-quality slowing engine that retains the detail in your music all the way down to quarter-speed!

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is said to be stepping down to make way for Yahoo EVP Ross Levinsohn.

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states the following:Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’.Ian Betteridge explains his theory as follows:The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bollocks, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.

If you post crap, but post it first, it’s still crap.

Carroll Hall Shelby, the Texan who created the famous Shelby Cobra and uncounted other high-performance machines that turned the auto world on its ear, and made it a whole lot more fun for 50 years, died in Dallas Thursday night at age 89. He had been hospitalized for pneumonia.

Jim and Dan talk about the latest 7-inch iPad rumors, justification for Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie, iOS 6’s new Maps app, Lightroom 4, The Beard’s WWDC party, the MacMan, and more.Sponsored by Igloo Software and Hover.

Reuters:

Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, has renounced his U.S. citizenship, according to an Internal Revenue Service report, just days before the company’s record initial public offering.The offering could leave Saverin – who once owned 5 percent of the company – with a hefty capital-gains tax bill.

That’s convenient.

Thanks to Bare Bones Software and BBEdit for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

BBEdit 10 from Bare Bones Software — The leading professional HTML and text editor for the Mac just keeps getting better, with more than one hundred new features. Download the demo and see for yourself!

Robert Wright:

Because at some point over the past year he had clicked a button without reading the fine print and thus had entered the world of “frictionless sharing.” In this world, if you’re on a website that permits frictionless sharing (theatlantic.com doesn’t), every time you click on a headline, the site can report this behavior to your Facebook friends.

Things like this are just creepy.

I laughed at Marco Arment’s response to this commenter.

Paul Kafasis: This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster, a wreck perhaps best known for introducing the phrase “Oh, the humanity” to our lexicon. While chatting with my pal Marco a while back, I realized I knew … Continued

Drafts is the quick, easy way to capture and share ideas on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Very clean interface with support for Markdown, TextExpander, Twitter and other services.

Analyst Michael Pachter recently took offense to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lax dress code. CNet’s Jim Kerstetter says good for Zuck.

One of my favorite apps of all time.

This Week Myke And Terry Are Joined By Jim Dalrymple and they discuss WWDC and Apple’s upcoming plans as well as Jim’s Mac and iOS Set-Up.

However, by my reckoning, in the 22 Bond films to date, there have been at least 4662 shots fired at our hero. A static well-aimed shot would almost certainly have proved lethal, but assuming all 4662 were “on the run”, the probability of a single fatal shot is about 5 per cent.

Shutterfly has purchased Kodak Gallery – subscribers have until May 28th to opt out of the transition, which will happen in July.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg upset Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter for not dressing up during a recent meeting.

While at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this year, I’ll be reporting on what’s happening with all things Apple, but I’ll also be hosting The Loop’s first ever party. […]

BBEdit 10 from Bare Bones Software — The leading professional HTML and text editor for the Mac just keeps getting better, with more than one hundred new features. Download the demo and see for yourself!

I’ve been using BBEdit for almost 20 years and it has never let me down.

Ken Bensinger for the Los Angeles Times But all the miles they and 64 other unlimited AAirpass holders racked up went far beyond what American had expected. As its finances began deteriorating a few years ago, the carrier took a … Continued

The Joy of Tech webcomic zeroes in on Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson.

Sasha Frere-Jones writes about the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch. Read this.

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is under fire for padding his resume.