Cartoon of the day by Emily Flake. For more cartoons: http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons

After sharing a fascinating and hilarious view of his creative process with a standing-room-only crowd at the SXSW Festival, Matthew Diffee sat down with Forbes’s Jeff Bercovici to demonstrate, up close, how a great cartoonist does what he does: http://ow.ly/9IXYk

[Alexandra] Janelli calls herself a “WiFi detective,” stalking the fragmentary consciousness of the city. “People are taking it to the next level in terms of being able to be really cryptic and send a message,” she said. Her site is a treasury of passive-aggressive messages to neighbors (Stop Cooking Indian!!!), self-promotion (FutureLawyersofCharlieSheen), flirtation (*~*~cOuGaRviLLe~*~*), and frustration (We can hear you having sex).

—Lauren Collins, “The Tao of WiFi,” (December 5, 2011)

From Hugh Hefner’s brief engagement to Jon Huntsman’s trio of daughters, highlights from The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town section in 2011: http://nyr.kr/vwm8Wz