• Being ‘it’: these guys have played a game of tag for 23 years now and it’s awesome
• Last Saturday, over 2800 spaceships clashed in a battle costing thousands of dollars
• Self-immolators in Tibet near 100 as pressure grows from China
• Smithsonian on the story behind Banksy
• Amazingly, this Russian family was cut off from civilisation for 40 years
• Strange Geographies: the beautiful and alien Iceland
• On Barnes & Noble and the end of the mega-bookstore
• Computer programming languages aren’t copyrightable, says a High Court judge
• Surgeon Simulator 2013 is the new medical QWOP
• Letter of Note: The Alien father is HR Giger
• A great list of 36 supervillain musical numbers
  (I have a huge hankering to re-watch Gremlins 2 right now)

Also, it’s pretty mean, but this edit of Lance Armstrong’s confession interview with Oprah recut to the lyrics of Radiohead’s Creep is very well done.

• What Radiohead Teaches Us About Musical Innovation
• How to reinforce learning while you sleep
• Scientists Harness Human Power for Electricity
• New Record for the Highest Man Made Temperature: 4 Trillion Degrees Celsius
• Planned TV retelling of Peter Pan based on the Lost Boys 10 years later
• Video: Mock Dora the Explorer Movie Trailer
• Finnish mathematician constructs “world hardest sudoku puzzle” (confirmed to be a goddamnmotherfuckingsonnofabitch)

These full length renditions are incredibly well done. First up is OK Computer…

And then Kid A…

I’m not even sure what you call this process of… er, using non-music based objects to create tunes; I’m sure there’s a term for it and I’m not thinking right today, but whatevers. It’s cool.

First off is the original DOOM video game theme played on eight floppy drives:

Old favourite one of Radiohead’s Nude on an array of old computer components:

And finally, I couldn’t figure out which video from these guy’s channel to choose from, but eventually settled on In the Hall of the Mountain King (though in retrospect, something mathematically Mozart would be wonderfully appropriate).

Either way, musical Tesla coils. Are. Awesome.

Some guy’s cover of Nude from In Rainbows by old computer technology. Awesome.