Image courtesy Flipboard

Reading is changing. And arguably, even more than e-readers, tablets, or “readers’ tablets,” smartphones are changing it.

This week kicked off with the release of Flipboard for iPhone and the clever adaptation of its “social magazine” model to a fully mobile format. Not to be outdone, FLUD, one of the leading personalized news app already available for iPhone, added new features with a brand-new 2.0 version; Google introduced Currents, a new publishing platform for both smartphones and tablets; and Flipboard competitor Zite likewise jumped from the iPad to the iPhone.

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The above map details the path of the misfired cannonball from Tuesday's MythBusters test.
Image: Matt Pressnall

For a shot heard — it seems — around the world, the MythBusters cannonball misfire only really rocked one suburban neighborhood. Now a map lets you see the wayward projectile’s path through Dublin, Calif.

It’s just a little bit of Google Maps handiwork, but it really is impressive to see all the places the cannonball hit in its bizarre trajectory, which was only slightly less strange than something you might see in a Looney Toons cartoon.

“I heard about the cannonball pinballing a...