• The New Spoiler Culture: Game of Thrones and the Fight to Live Uninformed
• Op-ed: How We’re Turning Digital Natives Into Etiquette Sociopaths
• Like-Farming: Facing up to Facebook scams
• NY Times Interview: The Joke’s on Louis C.K.
• Kickstarer: a doco that’ll explore the controversy of ‘controversial’ comedy.
• Les Blank, Filmmaker of America’s Periphery, Dies at 77
• Op-ed: Have Celebrities Hijacked Our Diplomatic Process?
• Google engineer on DRM: It’s about controlling hardware companies
• Hyper-Realistic CGI is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers
• Design Trends: Can We Please Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
• The Murderer Who Pulled a Real Life Shawshank Redemption Escape
• These identical twins, seperated at birth, found each other online 26 years later.
• Cookie Monster, Elmo in Times Square trouble
• Attach a camera to a police officer and you reduce 88% of the complaints against him/her.
• Also, their precaution of self-fingerprinting a stopped vehicle before approaching is pretty smart.
• I want: a 3D printed GlaDOS lamp

Replacing guns in movie stills with Nintendo Zappers

• The Flores Hobbit’s face revealed according to a forensic facial approximation
• Op-ed: “Cyborg is a state of psychology” and the line between cure and enhancement
• Googling the Apocalypse: the Web as Epistemological Vortex
• Twitter Tombstones: Why I’m Kind of Obsessed With Tragic Final Tweets
• The end of pasta (and of the climate change debate. Seriously, who the fuck wants to lose pasta?)
• Louis CK answers a magazine questionnaire
• The unidentified man who fell out of the London sky
• A proposal for The Nine Muses of the Internet
• The Thermosaurus radiator (I so fucking want one)

• How “The Power” Literally Rocked the House
  

  On July 5, 2011, the 39-story “Techno-Mart” mall in Seoul, South Korea shook for ten minutes, causing a two-day evacuation and an investigation. The cause of the tremors? Seismic experts concluded that “The Power,” a dance hit by the band Snap!, simply rocked too hard.

• Mitt Romney to Announce VP Pick Via Smartphone App
• Sad: Pianos are increasingly more likely to end up at the dump
• NY Times profiles the life of a drone pilot, the guy that waits for a kill shot 7,000 miles away
• A black momma with a white baby’s open letter to Louis C.K.
• How Being Wired to the ‘Net Poses an Existential Threat
• An Editorial on: Being too ‘plugged-in’ and tools to help get your life back.
• Advice from 1821 on How Imagination Can Save Us From Information Overload
• Nielsen Sued For Billions For Allegedly Manipulating TV Ratings Data (also, fuck Nielsen)
• On: What Does a Killer Think? and the latest research on mass murderers
• Haha, oh you (America): Man Charged With Illegally Feeding Alligator (That Bit Off His Hand)
• 13 People Who Don’t Know What ‘Literally’ Means
• Twitter account: @JamesHolmesDies