• 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.

• Vast Video Game Collection Sells for $1.2M
• A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down
• Why Were CD Boxes So Big in the Early 1990s?
• Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
• Walker Arts Center Validates the First-Ever Internet Cat Video Film Festival
• Discovery of an arsenic-friendly microbe refuted
• Scientists just discovered what makes migration possible
• Tire reefs fail to revive marine life in Florida
• Share it Maybe with Cookie Monster “Call Me Maybe” Parody (yes, I know, I too feel awful)
• The 20 Awesomest Photos of Women & Bacon
• 17 Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else
• 12 Fascinating True Stories About Guest Stars On ‘The Simpsons’

And lastly, a short commercial by Jon Lajoie. If you were completely honest with yourself, you’d realize that you are a terrible person.