• Being ‘it’: these guys have played a game of tag for 23 years now and it’s awesome
• Last Saturday, over 2800 spaceships clashed in a battle costing thousands of dollars
• Self-immolators in Tibet near 100 as pressure grows from China
• Smithsonian on the story behind Banksy
• Amazingly, this Russian family was cut off from civilisation for 40 years
• Strange Geographies: the beautiful and alien Iceland
• On Barnes & Noble and the end of the mega-bookstore
• Computer programming languages aren’t copyrightable, says a High Court judge
• Surgeon Simulator 2013 is the new medical QWOP
• Letter of Note: The Alien father is HR Giger
• A great list of 36 supervillain musical numbers
  (I have a huge hankering to re-watch Gremlins 2 right now)

Also, it’s pretty mean, but this edit of Lance Armstrong’s confession interview with Oprah recut to the lyrics of Radiohead’s Creep is very well done.

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.

• It’s ALIVE! First ever software simulation of an entire organism
• iPv4 addresses: The UK is predicted to run out sometime this weekend
• Meet: the ‘bots’ that edit Wikipedia
• Ha! Good Luck! YouTube urges it’s users to start using their full names when commenting
• At the Olympic opening ceremony: The US will probably not ‘dip’ it’s flag and here’s why
• Will London Really Erase Banksy’s New Olympics Art?
• Damn! Some unlucky guy dropped a $77,000 bottle of Connac
• Sometimes, sometimes a man’s gotta track down The Big lebowski filming locations
• Christopher Nolan’s farewell letter to the Batman franchise
• Trivia: Why we don’t consume dairy products from mammals that aren’t cows
• Infographic: How the internet shat all over the music industry
• Is it a subconscious fear of space exploration and the universe that explains NASA’s budget cuts?
• How networks try to trick viewers into thinking their awful shows are critically adored (spoiler: lying)

Also, a downward lighting negative ground flash: at 7,207 images per second. Awesome.