• Roger Ebert on the Aurora Shooting
• How a 70 year old and a 7 year old bonded over the loss of their legs
• The story of Jay-Z’s most obsessive fan and his ‘correspondence’
• Pennie Smith’s historic Clash photo: The greatest rock ‘n’ roll image of all time?
• Author Denise Mina predicts fiction revolution
• John McCain to Appear on Parks and Recreation
• Lowest crime rate in decades. Is Britain behaving better?
• Why Pot Is Illegal Everywhere in the World
• Traffic signs in New Zealand destroyed by prostitutes performing stunts
• 18 Chinese Police Officers Dispatched to Rescue Sex Doll From River
• Stephen Gough, ‘Naked Rambler,’ Allowed To Walk Home Nude From Scottish Prison
• Tosher Work: Quite Likely the Worst Job Ever
• Tumblr: Onion-like headlines in real life
• Meowbify a website
• How a 70 year old and a 7 year old bonded over the loss of their legs

Also, will have to try this sometime…

Been busy and the bookmarks have been piling up so this is a somewhat larger collection and all over the place at that.

First, Space & Science stuff:
• June 30 to be 1 second longer
• Mars Reality Show Could Fund Manned Colony by 2023
• How Humans Could Get to Mars in Weeks, Rather than Months
• BBC’s Space Travel Guide
• Researchers Test Infinite-Capacity Wireless Connection

Internet/Computers stuff:
• Pre-computer chess algorithm by Alan Turing goes up against Grandmaster Kasparov
• We know what your doing: a social networking privacy experiment
• Because of Google Ads, TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope
• List of Worthwhile DOS Games

Sports!
• London’s wildly over-budget Olympics (101% over and counting)
• The US Olympic running team’s upcoming coin toss decision its 387-word procedure

And other things of very different tones (sorry)
• More than 200 church leaders across the US now say they no longer believe in God
• Conservative Rabbis Approve Gay Marriage
• Girl Found Alive In Dead Mom’s Arms After Tornado Throws Them From Home
• Journalist Natasha Smith’s account of being sexually attacked in Cairo
• Fan gets kicked out of Kenny Chesney concert for looking too much like Kenny Chesney
• Skater Punk Gets Stuck in Soda Machine, Needs Jaws of Life Rescue
• Swedish police appeal for help to find girl’s missing teddy
• Warren Ellis on the fiction of money
• Video: Nick Offerman Read Tweets from Young Female Celebrities
• Videos: 10 Essential Dirty Phrases in Sign Language
• Announced! The Big Lebowski 2: The Dude Goes To Washington
• Letters of Note: Helen Keller’s letter to Mark Twain in lieu of being unable to attend a Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind conference