It's that time again. Test your knowledge of the news over the last week, as recounted in the pages of this blog. Study up, then click below. (Or click below and consult the blog as you go along; we're not fussy.)
Four things for your weekend:
'JOURNALISTS ARE ON NOTICE. IF YOU INVESTIGATE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT, CHINESE HACKERS WILL COME AFTER YOU.' Slate's Farhad Manjoo says reporters need to learn two lessons from the hacking of The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and others.
CHICAGO'S GUN PARADOX. Despite bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and no gun ranges, the city has a huge gun problem. A New York Times report has put Chicago at the center of the national discussion on gun safety.
* Times map: Where all those Chicago guns come from.
'IT IS A CITY OF CRIME, SEGREGATION AND FLOURISH, A CITY OF CONSTANT DESPAIR AND REBIRTH.' That's from the introduction to a new "budget guide" review of Chicago by the Gadling travel blog.
* Public school student who performed last week at the Obama inauguration among latest dead in Chicago shootings.
* The Onion: "Chicago's Annual Homicide Drive Off To Most Promising Start In Decades."
FOR LACK OF A MORE DESCRIPTIVE PHRASE: EWWWwwwwww. The Sun-Times' Dan Mihalopoulos says O'Hare Airport's supposedly new "hygenic" toilet seats ... aren't: "As the plastic wrapping rotates ... it drags up liquid from the rim of toilet bowls and leaves drops of that liquid atop seats, on the clear plastic film that’s supposed to be clean." (By the way, that's orange juice in the video, for demonstration purposes.)
RED LINE REVIVAL. The CTA says private companies are enthusiastic about investing in plans to stretch the Red Line south to 130th Street and to rebuild North Side Red and Purple Line tracks, according to the Tribune's Jon Hilkevitch.
Four things (plus!) for Monday, Chicago:
'THIS TIME THERE WILL BE CHANGE, OR THERE WILL BE CHAOS.' That's been the warning from the "hacktivist" group Anonymous over the weekend, as it took control of the U.S. Sentencing Commission website -- not once but twice, the second time turning it into a version of the old arcade game "Asteroids" -- to protest what it calls a "twisted and distorted perversion of justice," which it blames for the suicide of Chicago-born Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
ALL RIGHT, WE KNOW WHY YOU'RE HERE. You don't care about the news of the day with a Chicago twist. You come not seeking insightful analysis and perspective curated for your enlightenment. You have no interest in the latest from the frontiers of technology and journalism.
FACEBOOK EMBARRASSMENTS. The Web site "Actual Facebook Graph Searches" reveals awkward things now easily found on Facebook -- like "Current employers of people who like racism," "Married people who like prostitutes," and "Mothers of Jews who like bacon." (The site's creator, Tom Scott, is also the guy behind the Klout parody "Klouchebag.")
* GigaOM: Facebook's new search function means the end of "privacy by obscurity."
CHICAGO'S LOSS. The city's cleaning up after its biggest fire "in many years," in the historic Central Manufacturing District, Chicago's first office park. [Correcting earlier post, which conflated two separate fires, one from 2006. Thanks, Bernie Tafoya.]
[UPDATE] PEARL JAM @ WRIGLEY FIELD. After a day of teasing on Twitter, Pearl Jam confirms a July 19 show in Chicago.
TWEETS FROM A SHOOTING SPREE. As a gunfight unfolded on a Texas college campus, one student communicated with friends, family and reporters using Twitter.
