…yeah, been slack on the updates lately I know, but will resume regular interneting soon once this surprisingly busy period passes.

Meanwhile…

Edit: yeah, zero idea what the previous (and subsequently deleted) video was, so here’s a video for some Resort Collection or… something. I dunno, but it’s awesome.

Redubbed to hilarity.

• Pamela Ribon’s horrific and yet hilariously told masseuse experience
• They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
• The Big Apple’s Mayor Makes A Very Scary Video on CO2 Emissions
• NYC payphones get revived as touch-screen tablets
• Visual evolution of the mobile phone
• Straight Outta ‘Goodfellas’: $1.5 Million In iPads Stolen In JFK Heist
• UK’s ‘last typewriter’ produced
• Whoa… Sound bullets in water
• Remember that scary undersea “bloop” noise? At last we know what caused it.
• Why Revolution Can’t Come to North Korea
• NYT Op-ed: The Trouble With Online Education
• The Magnificent Find: Discovering the Lincoln Death Photograph
• The Red Bull 400: a 45 degree, 400m race
• 22 Things your doing wrong
• This guy’s version of Episode I’s potential plot is pretty damn good (and depressing)

I fucking love this.

• Feel Good Read of the Week: 6 True Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
• The redemption of Michael K Williams
• David Fincher: A Film Title Retrospective
• New study says music is way more depressing now
• Why Do So Many Pretty Female Comedians Pretend They’re Ugly?
• 579 – A 1939 Map of Physics
• Arctic sea ice coverage plunges to record low
• Our image of Africa is hopelessly obsolete
• What Do Swedes Think of the Swedish Chef?
• Ask A Writer: “How Do I Write What The Audience Wants To Read?”
• Images examples of how a colour-blind person sees the world (and the genius of Van Gogh)
• Couple Faces $4,000 Fine for High-Decibel Sex
• Naked People Saluting Prince Harry: The Definitive Gallery
• Make it so: How three guys got most of the Enterprise-D bridge
• Video: Insane Clown Posse Watch “Call Me Maybe”
• Interesting: 10 weird wikis
• Gallery: Inside a Creepy Abandoned Russian Sub

• The Top 10 Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe
• Still the most responsible industry out there: Secret Syphilis Shuts Down Porn Industry
• 53 ‘Arrested Development’ Jokes You Probably Missed
• 13 Pieces of Breaking Bad Fan Art (with Cast/Crew comments)
• From The Smithsonian: The Accidental History of the @ Symbol
• How Did the Chicken Cross the Ocean?
• The case of the 40 year-old trapped in a child’s body
• Researchers develop a phone tracking algorithm that can predict where you’ll be in 24 hours
• True: I Fucking Google Everything
• Stop writing online in a closed-wall datasphere

• Word: Don’t write articles like this
• Wisdom: Life lessons from Dave the barman
• From NPR: An Anthropologist Walks Into A Bar And Asks, ‘Why Is This Joke Funny?’
• The history of ‘business casual’
• Crime Doesn’t Pay (Well): The Economics of Bank Robberies
• Going three days without the internet
• Newest booze/creativity correlation: vodka and cranberry
• The AV Club: Creative processes we wish we’d witnessed
• Big Think: How to Form a Good Habit
• These days, you don’t even need to sell 10,000 albums to make it to No. 1
• Some music sales data that highlight consumers tendency for singles over albums
• A Tor of the Dark Web
• How measuring the shape of a photon could lead to new ways of encoding information
• Microbes maketh man: We’re not just people, we’re made of a lot of microbes too
• Profiled: concentrated solar power plants
• Study: Homeless people find equality, acceptance on social networking sites
• GetGlue: television’s future interactivity on our ‘second screens’
• Website: AirPano – 360 degree panoramas tours of the world

Sourcing footage from almost 300 movies (295 to be precise); here is Sir Mix-a-Lot’s classic romantic ballad in ‘spoken verse’.