Morning, campers!

Cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee, black as a moonless night. Hits the spot. Below, my Sunday Reads for August 5th, 2012.

• Cross Your Fingers: How to Watch NASA’s Mars Rover Land on Sunday (Wired)
• When Curiosity was born: a peek at Mars rover during construction at JPL, one year ago (BoingBoing)
• The World’s Highest-Paid DJs (Forbes)
• The Best Extreme and Unusual Compressor Plugins (SonicScoop)
• Pharrell Williams Has an Idea (NYT)
• Eve Trains You to Use Keyboard Shortcuts (LifeHacker)
• Hacked iCloud Password Leads To Nightmare (TUAW)
• Nile Rodgers on Working With Daft Punk (RollingStone)
• Internet Pirates Will Always Win (NYT)
• Building an OS X Mountain Lion installer thumb drive (TUAW)