• A Pickpocket’s Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins.
• Don’t read the comments! How online communities shape risk perception
• From Mubi: The Best Movie Posters of 2012
• Tree seeds offer potential for sustainable biofuels
• Japan cyber probe cops find cat collar clue
• Nice. PaperTab prototype wows at CES
• SSD predictions at CES: fewer OEMs, lower prices
• Adobe almost does something amazing by accident
• An account of living on 1.5kW
• Scientists look to fireflies to make a more efficient LED
• I’m heavily considering backing this thin-watch kickstarter
• An account of when 1080p does matter (vs. screen size vs. viewing distance)
• Another op-ed on The Hobbit’s 48HFR
• Also, this invisible driver prank video is pretty great

• YES: Rumored film about Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison rivalry starring Christian Bale and Nicolas Cage!
• Bill Murray Announces Party Crashing Tour Starting In August
• Book ‘pirate’ goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind
• Reddit Cracked a Mysterious Cipher That Might Be a Viral Marketing Scam
• Scientists Figure Out how Dinosaurs Did it
• World’s heaviest woman sheds 98 lbs with seven-times-a-day sex
• South Caroline Funeral Home Adds a Starbucks (of course)
• Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity
• Proving you’re gay to the Turkish army
• Surveyed: Many Wall Street executives says wrongdoing is necessary
• Editorial: The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
• Supercut: See James Bond Do Vehicles
• North: How a Small Arctic Town Became a Global Epicenter of Climate Science
• Ranked: Disney Princesses From Least To Most Feminist
• 20 Best ‘Arrested Development’ Inside Jokes and Recurring Gags
• Photos: 18 Years Of Friendship

And for your daily freak out, this video demonstrates what one, ONE DROP of Russell’s Viper snake venom can do to blood.

(Kinda graphic, only because of the ‘holy shit! That was from just one drop!’ factor).

• What Do The Authors Of Serialized Works Owe To Their Fans?
• Thank you for killing my novel
• Girl Accidentally Emails Prospective Employer Pic Of Nic Cage instead of CV
• Batman could fly, but he’d die horribly on landing, science students conclude
• The Mountain Goats announce new album: Transcendental Youth
• The Black Punk, the Black Geek, and Other Black People You Don’t Meet on TV
• Every Single Media Outlet Is Misreporting Obama’s Tax Proposal
• Supreme Court flip-flops: Health care wasn’t the first. It won’t be the last.
• Google Decides To Step Into The Gay Rights Arena
• The 20 Most Beautiful Museums in the World
• Video: 16-bit Game of Thrones, Season 2
• Video: this self taught 6 year old drummer is really good and depresses me
• Infographic: The best and worst places in the world to be a woman
• Comic: Learn Korean in 15 minutes

And then there’s this awesome report on some late-night BBQ chips bandits.

• Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy… “We’ve observed a new particle”: leaked video reveals Higgs confirmation
• How the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Could Break Physics
• Complicated Concepts Explained Using Kitchen Items
• The Nicolas Cage Paradox
• Graph: The Recession-Proof Fireworks Industry
• Identifying the “Greatest Threat” that the World Faces
• Horrible Father Abandons Family For New Life in the Philippines – Leaving a son with cancer, daughter with down syndrome (yeah, that’s right)
• Syria’s Torture Centers Revealed
• Infographic: the effects of a sip of soda

Also, legendary entertainer Andy Griffiths died today (aged 86). The internet pays tribute as always, but this mash-up of his sitcom’s theme song and Beyonce is a favourite.

The Ron Swanson Appreciation Society

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Also: As Outras Faces de Nicolas Cage [facebook]