• 10 of the oddest/awesome entries into 2013’s Guinness World Records
• Wind power: how we could supply all our energy needs without altering the global climate
• Wired profiles Cosmo the hacker ‘God’ who fell to Earth
• James Cameron puts to rest the idea that Jack could have fit on that plank with Rose
• Nice…  who did invent sliced bread?
• This man hasn’t missed a day at the pub for 72 years

Also, celebrity say “fuck” super cut…

Have a fucking good weekend y’all.

• Some guy called Brad does acid, live-tweets it
• Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China
• Sweden is so efficient with its waste-to-energy program, that it’s importing trash from other European countries
• Awesome: Focus on the Family is giving up on reaching out to Millennials
• The TPP: A first-hand look at the secret international talks that could change the Internet
• A university built a supercomputer with Raspberry Pi(s) and Lego
• Mathematician claims proof of connection between prime numbers
• It Ain’t 1979 Anymore: Why this week’s attacks on American embassies aren’t the Iran hostage crisis all over again.
• Somehow missed: Vice interviewed my hero cinematographer Christopher Doyle
• Cool… 45 Years of the John Peel Show is available on Soundcloud.
• Comedian Josh Sankey will travel across the U.S. with only bacon as currency
• On the tubes: a recording of Tolkien reciting a poem in Elvish

Lastly… cats compilation video, because cats compilation video.

Banksy gifs

• Get a bad review? Sue them… How to Piss Off a Theatre Critic
• The two-year editors battle over Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back page
• The Political Awakening of a Republican: ‘I Had Viewed Whole Swaths of the Country and the World as Second-Class People’
• Why wood pulp is world’s new wonder material
• A week on after the Department of Justice’s ruling and E-books are already getting cheaper
• On that here are 375 Free eBooks to download to Kindle, iPad/iPhone & Nook
• Google VP says Apple v Samsung verdict was a “wake-up call”
• From Foreign Policy: How America’s biggest corporations became cyber vigilantes
• The childhood gamer in me is pretty excited over Chris Roberts returns to space sims

And here’s a super cut of memes over the years. It’s titled ‘A Mess of Memes’, but the jury is still out on that pluralisation.

London Underground guerrilla signs

• Okay, so a very promising virus that eats cancer has been sitting in a researcher’s fridge for years undeveloped due to – wait for it… lack of funding for its £1 million price-tag
• At least biomedical researchers have made a computational model of another anti-cancer drug that works on the quantum level
• But then, Ars Technica on how press releases are creating a confused history of biology
• Research now shows that monotony breeds creativity
• and that green tea boosts brain cell production to aid memory
• Telegraph has an article on how the distraction of the internet can really stunts creativity
• That, and an Atlantic article on why we all have an internet-addiction gene
• New York Times profiled Valve and their awesome vision for future gaming
• Plus, an interview series with game developers, this one: the folks behind Portal and Portal 2
• Also, holy shit… Black Mesa:Source is finally coming out, this Friday!
• Here’s an excellent infographic of Breaking Bad’s death count
• Lastly, a video of a lot of Cos-players dancing Gangnam Style at Dragoncon

Bill Bailey + Maths + Dinosaurs = YES

An X-Ray of a Heliotrygon Gomesi Stingray

• What your crutch word says about you
• Tracking LiveJournal: the demise of the social media platform
• Oddly (if not depressingly) plausible: The Onion gives up
• From The Atlantic: How Google builds it’s maps
• Amusingly, author Philip Roth needed a second source to correct his own book’s wiki page
• Amazon’s approach with it’s new Kindle is looking pretty good yo
• Declassified: footage from the “Starfish Prime” tests
• From Foreign Policy: Why environmentalists should reconsider nuclear energy
• May is still the operative word: Too much light at night may lead to depression
• John Cusack interviews law professor Jonathan Turley about Obama administration’s war on the Constitution
• Looking back at the year 1555 AD
• Four geeky laws that rule our world
• 7 Urban Wonders of the Modern World

Also, this automated bar-tending drinks machine. Wants it.

• Maven of Meth: The real-life chemist behind Breaking Bad
• Going Viral: How Two Pakistani Brothers Created the First PC Virus
• Jimmy Wales threatens to encrypt Wikipedia if UK passes snooping bill
• Researchers discover: Birds Hold Funerals for Their Dead
• Embarrassing pothole caricatures of politicians spur action to fix the streets in Russia
• Girl Hid for 8 Hours Under Bodies in Alps Killing Spree
• Summarising the distinction between game AI and traditional AI
• From a 1992 New York Magazine issue: Bill Clinton: Who Is This Guy?
• Also, there’s a video of that “Where the hell is Matt?” guy getting shot with a 10,000V Tesla gun by Matt Inman from The Oatmeal; here.
• Website: https://www.pointerpointer.com/

Plus, over 600 Criterions in 2.5 minutes…

• Brain’s visual centers study finds that men and women do see things differently
• Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats
• An excellent interactive infographic: How many alien civilizations exist?
• Voyager 1 is yet to find the boundary line of the Solar System
• Twenty-nine of history’s most iconic scientists in one photograph (now in color)!
• The Brooklyn bookshop saving out-of-print sci-fi, one e-book at a time
• Obama and Romney tackle 14 top science questions
• #presspushback: the lost art of fact checking returns
• From Mental_Floss: What’s the Song That Clock Chimes Play?
• How Your Cell Phone Hurts Your Relationships
• Spike Jonze’s Next Movie: A Man Falls in Love With His Phone
• Kickstarter: Charlie Kaufman’s animated feature Anomalisa
• This method is how find cat adopters online: Cat Roulette!

Using only photos as reference and sculpted with ridiculously intricate detail, artist Bobby Causey has created this incredibly awesome statue of Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker. In his spare time too.

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Bilateral gynandromporphism – half female, half male. This genetic anomaly is usually restricted to arthropods, but has been known to express itself in birds as well.

• An Inuit village, too remote for cars is on Google Street View via tricycle
• The medical case of the woman who needed to be upside down
• From The Atlantic: How Headphones Changed the World
• From BBC News: DNA test jailed innocent man for murder
• Finally some traction: UK clampdown on debit and credit cards surcharges
• The Verge interviewed Rian Johnson on Looper
• To ripen a tomato, place a ripe banana beside it
• There is a place called Monkey Island and it’s in the name of science!
• A top 10 list of strange topics that need more explaination
• Alternate Histories: 7 Ways the World Could Be Completely Different
• Water Worlds: 15 Real Floating Towns & Ocean Cities
• The Mysteries and Tragedy of Russia’s Bottomless Karst Lake
• Shame it’s only for the US, but still very cool: wind map site
• Word Dynamo: How many words do you know?

Also, this is a video of a guy fashioning some molten glass into a horse in under two minutes. Yeah, it’s impressive.