• Cinematic Faith: an interview with Christopher Nolan on the Batman trilogy
• James Bond: 50 years of main title design
• Nielsen will supplement its TV ratings system with Twitter
• Facebook to debut auto-play video ads in 2013
• How to end an argument on the internet
• Best Practices for Raising Kids? Look to Hunter-Gatherers
• Santa Math: How long would it him to deliver presents to every kid on Earth?

Redubbed to hilarity.

Oh god, ignore it all I want, but they’re right…

Dave Grohl beers a fan during a show

• The acoustics of office productivity
• An anonymous Navy SEAL will release a tell-all book about killing Bin Laden
• The Dark Knight Rises is set to make a billion dollars, yet is projected to sell 10 million fewer tickets than the 1989 Batman.
• Big Think: Do We Need an Army of Hackers to Fight a Cyber War?
• How Your Social Network Shapes Your Decisions (And Your Friends’ Decisions)
• The Anti-Social Network: Re-Discovering The Art Of Sharing With Ourselves
• Smithsonian: Is Ai Weiwei China’s Most Dangerous Man?
• Mental Floss: Why aren’t there any B batteries?
• Men at Lunch: A documentary about one of the most iconic New York photos
• Infographic: Facts You (probably) Didn’t Know About Sex Toys

• Rolling Stone has a Q&A with David Cross on ‘Arrested Development’
• This elaborates on the politics of The Dark Knight movies
• This’ll make you feel old: For incoming college freshmen, Kurt Cobain has always been dead
• And this, nostalgically older: The need to upgrade computers is coming to a halt
• On business/hiring: The Bozo Event Horizon
• The Googler whose job was to Browse the worst of the internet
• How one NASA scientist’s family Switched over to Martian Time
• Photos from August 22, 1969: The Beatles’ final photo shoot
• And a time capsule was opened and the 25 year-old predictions by some sci-fi writers about ‘what life would be like in 2012’ are read. Some points are fairly on-the-mark, but a few are also depressingly way off.

This takes me back to my youth making stop motion shorts with my Aliens action toys, except this time it’s with Batman and totally not shit.

The latest from the great SoundWorks Collection website.

I think they might be right…

Am home early today thanks to the flu looking to do something vile to my body. But just as the night is darkest before the dawn, a new fucking Dark Knight Rises trailer has made my fevered evening more endurable. Unlike the latest Prometheus trailer (that’s rumoured to be filled to the brim with devil-worshiping spoilers), this one at first, seem like it’s gonna head into that territory but then, Christopher Nolan’s shining fucking name blazes across the screen and it almost mutates into this insanely pants tightening sense of ‘okay… fuck yes. This is gonna be awesome.’

That or the flu meds are finally starting to work.