Banksy gifs

• Get a bad review? Sue them… How to Piss Off a Theatre Critic
• The two-year editors battle over Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back page
• The Political Awakening of a Republican: ‘I Had Viewed Whole Swaths of the Country and the World as Second-Class People’
• Why wood pulp is world’s new wonder material
• A week on after the Department of Justice’s ruling and E-books are already getting cheaper
• On that here are 375 Free eBooks to download to Kindle, iPad/iPhone & Nook
• Google VP says Apple v Samsung verdict was a “wake-up call”
• From Foreign Policy: How America’s biggest corporations became cyber vigilantes
• The childhood gamer in me is pretty excited over Chris Roberts returns to space sims

And here’s a super cut of memes over the years. It’s titled ‘A Mess of Memes’, but the jury is still out on that pluralisation.

• Brain’s visual centers study finds that men and women do see things differently
• Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats
• An excellent interactive infographic: How many alien civilizations exist?
• Voyager 1 is yet to find the boundary line of the Solar System
• Twenty-nine of history’s most iconic scientists in one photograph (now in color)!
• The Brooklyn bookshop saving out-of-print sci-fi, one e-book at a time
• Obama and Romney tackle 14 top science questions
• #presspushback: the lost art of fact checking returns
• From Mental_Floss: What’s the Song That Clock Chimes Play?
• How Your Cell Phone Hurts Your Relationships
• Spike Jonze’s Next Movie: A Man Falls in Love With His Phone
• Kickstarter: Charlie Kaufman’s animated feature Anomalisa
• This method is how find cat adopters online: Cat Roulette!

The real Mitt Romney stands up and reflects on who he is, what he believes and why he is running for office.

• Fuck yeah! Let’s Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum
• At 314,159,265 now: the US population is pi
• Scottish people’s DNA study could ‘rewrite nation’s history’
• Botanicus Interacticus: Disney’s interactive plant technology
• Don’t You Forget About Me: Sarkozy is not about to go quietly into the night.
• Big Think: How To Recognize Your Next Brilliant Idea
• Dr. Michio Kaku’s five must-see science five
• See (and buy) 27 concept images for never-made Gaiman Sandman movie
• How unbreakable this glass is is pretty mental

Evolution of the New York City Skyline via Smithsonian Magazine

•  Good Luck: A web project dedicated to amalgamating a ‘universal’ terms of service system
• The demise of the daily deal website business model
• Hottest temps ever at LHC and more hints about early Universe
• Food and exercise are not matter and anti-matter
• Weird: Ron Howard Directing Documentary on Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival
• Jodie Foster on the Stewart/Pattinson spectacle
• Keanu Reeves spills what Bill & Ted 3 is actually gonna be about
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to U.S. Interests in the Middle East
• Surreal: The General Mills Lawn Protester Has Died
• Humor: 45-year-old salesman apologises for closing ceremony
• Today’s not for epileptics website: https://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

• Woah: Some unknown disease is causing a woman to grow fingernails instead of hair
• Tumblr: Famous album covers recreated with my socks
• Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch left some instructions in the advent of his death
• New favourite web comic: The Monkey’s You Ordered
• Drinking at work is good for creativity (not so much for productivity)
• Mitt Romney Sure Does Lie a Lot, Doesn’t He?
• Scary: Google to include your own Gmails in search results?

Also, this amazing 3 year-old bucket drummer… is only 3 friggin’ years old!

History of Comics in 6 Panels with write up via Paul Lopes

• The first color 360-degree panorama from Curiosity
• The Internet May Have Upended Traditional Institutions, But It’s a Brittle Weapon
• The Internet Archive Now Offers Torrent Downloads
• New software that helps employers read your emotional state
• New Global Warming Culprit: Dams
• New salt-based battery a leap for green energy
• How rogue biohackers are revolutionising the human body
• The science of Staring
• A new prehistoric species of humans identified
• Conservative pundits are plain wrong: Barack Obama hasn’t lost Europe. That was his predecessor’s doing.
• How billionaire backers pick America’s candidates
• The Fog of War: How can we talk about the military if we can’t define what it is?
• The Elephant in the Map Room: The Israel/Palestine Border
• The 1916 Shark Attacks that were the inspiration for Jaws
• Wait… There’s a 30 minute longer cut of The Shining?

• Military Strategy: What are the optimal siege tactics for taking Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle?
• John McCain Comes to Huma Abedin’s Defense
• The real reason Marissa Mayer left Google: She had to
• Also: Marissa Mayer on the day she ‘broke’ the Internet
• Green streets can cut pollution, says study
• Study: Users more satisfied with Google+ over Facebook
• Texting overtakes talking in UK, says Ofcom study
• What Central Europe thinks of Britain and why
• Broken down: How an executable file works
• 90’s Nostalgia: A Windows 3.1 interface with a working command prompt too!
• The intensity of auditioning for the Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Twitter account: Bane Capital
• 10 Famous Roles Almost Played by Bill Murray
• 10 Bizarre Crimes in Walmart Parking Lots

Also, using a high speed camera, the good folks at MIT have recorded the properties of a drop of water at 10,000 frames/second, revealing a ‘behaviour’ that’s normally invisible to the human eye.

• Backstage gossip from touring Guns N Roses roadies
• The Necronomicon-Thin Crust pizza (I like to call it a Necronominom)
• How a Boiled squid inseminated a woman’s mouth
• Stoya on the difference between a prostitute and a porn actress
• Yanis Varoufakis on becoming Valve’s economist-in-residence for their virtual economies
• Why smart people can be so dumb
• Is Creativity Sexy? The Evolutionary Advantages of Artistic Thinking
• Singularity University Rule #1: The best way to predict the future is to invent it
• Lifehacker’s guide on how to tie your running shoes
• New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza on reporting and how Twitter has fostered a crisis in political journalism
• These are the books that will make you totally undateable
  

  “Eat Pray Love. Elizabeth Gilbert isn’t a bad person, but if this book is your choice, you are.”

• Interesting discussion on How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
  

  “Non-reading is not just the absence of reading. It is a genuine activity, one that consists of adopting a stance in relation to the immense tide of books that protects you from drowning. On that basis, it deserves to be defended and even taught.”

• A visual summary of Michael Fassbender’s role in Prometheus
• Oh Christ, I thought I could avoid posting a “call me maybe” cover thing, but this MC Chris version with bath salts zombies is catchy.
• Also, Star Wars subtitled with existential philosophy

And for your funny late show segment of the day, here’s 30 Rock’s nice guy Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visiting the Weiner Circle, Chicago’s infamously hostile hot dog stand.

• So Long Judy Freudberg, Sesame Street Veteran; Writer Behind Land Before Time and American Tail
• Goddamnit… 35mm Film is About to Die – Studios Plan to Go With All Digital Projection by 2014
• Oh please fucking yes: HBO Considering Bored to Death Movie
• Video: a very brief online peek at upcoming Life of Pi adaptation
• The Evolution of Aesthetics: The Origins Of Music And Visual Art
• Bad astronomer on Will we ever… live on the Moon?
• Concerned Scientists Fight Back Against Ignorance in Washington DC by building a Center for Science and Democracy
• Opinion: Obama Might Lose (And He Might Win)
• Why Are Traffic Lights Red and Green? (sorta explained)

And today’s trailer is Julie Delpy’s sequel to 2 Days in Paris, now with more glasses…