The Best Astronomy Images of 2012

• Should society be able to tell you how to augment your reality?
• The mind-uploading solution for interstellar missions
• Does Twitter kill TV comedy? Writers from “Daily Show,” “SNL,” “Fallon” and others sound off
• Game of Thrones gets a mind-blowing Minecraft makeover
• Mark Cuban, Minecraft creator donates big to help EFF “fix” software patents
• World’s biggest patent troll saves Kodak from bankruptcy
• Scapegoating at its finest: Proposed US Senate bill to further study violent game effects
• Reformed hitman who inspired ‘The Wire’s’ Omar dies at 58

Also, the chemistry of how snowflakes form their unique shapes.

Five seasons of Breaking Bad masterfully compiled into the style of The Wire‘s five credit sequences.

• How We Talk About A Bacon Sundae
• How Anthony Bourdain became Anthony Bourdain
• Amazing 1:1 Scale Replica of the Mines of Moria Built in Minecraft
• Film Crit Hulk Smash: THE DAMON LINDLEOF INTERVENTION
• Trying to purge London of sex workers before the Olympics is having an adverse effect
• New Pixar film not teeming with truculent piss-artists
  

  “It would be nice if Brave was a little more authentically Scottish but then they would have to change the name to Fuck You, Ya Prick and it wouldn’t get a PG rating outside of Scotland.”

• J.D. Williams of ‘The Wire’ Says Stop-and-Frisk Cops Forget He’s Not a Real Drug Dealer
• Infographic: The World Without the Internet

And then this:

I like it when I get two Wire related things over two days…

Also, if you missed it earlier, this write up/interview/retrospective with The Wire cast and crew makes for a great read.

• Sho Kayo: The Real Life Doogie Howser, M.D.
• Why nearly every sport except long-distance running is fundamentally absurd
• Presidential Campaign Posters: 200 Years of Election Art
• The U.S. Military May Blanket Afghanistan in Tiny Spy Sensors That Last for Two Decades
• Pollution Deadening Contruction: Nanoparticle Coating Interacts With Sunlight to Eliminate Contaminants
• Getting to the Bottom of Anti-Semitism
• Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car
• Maxim Interrogates the Makers and Stars of The Wire (awesome)
• fun video: Bryan Cranston is the One Who Bowls – Breaking Bad v Nerdist finale

This is officially my favourite thing on the internet today.

There doesn’t seem to be a code to embed it, but if you’re a fan of The Wire and by god you bloody well should be, there’s a great hour long interview with it’s creator David Simon to be found here.

Feeling the need to post a video, here’s one of my favourite scenes from the first season.