• Fucking hell… How a fatal accident victim’s insurance company ended up in court defending her killer
• And then the story of how United Airlines lost a 10 year-old and didn’t care
• But at least the leader of an Hungarian anti-Semitic party discovered he’s Jewish
• Further interesting ‘discrimination’ as fight attendants force single men to sit away from unattended children
• From the New Yorker: Why nobody in America cared about the Sikh temple shooting
• The circle is complete as growing Indian companies begin outsourcing jobs to the US
• Just cause: Teddy Roosevelt’s magnificent sideburns
• Online: The lastest 360 degrees panorama of Mars
• How science-y are the social sciences?
• Forbes: Beck ‘produces’ a genius innovation that appeals to the user-generated generation
• Awesome is: this comic book store designed to look like a comic book
• 11 pop culture references younger readers won’t get
• Wow: Bill Finger – the Batman origin story you’ve never heard before
• I’m so making all of these: Simple ways to make food taste awesome
• Visualised (awesomely): the imports and exports of small arms (1992 – 2010)
• An ‘everyone-is-lying-to-me’ thriller movie trailer parody: Ghost Tits
• Also, there’s this pretty prophetic PSA by 5th grade kids about the internet (made in 1995)
• Today’s distracting online game: https://thisissand.com/

Finally, here’s a short video of the aptly named Teddy, the asshole cat…

From an upcoming PBS programme America Revealed, this visualisation of just how that one pizza (and its ingredients) make it’s way to your doorstep.

This.  The animation is of minimal quality, the sound is stock and the song is well past the point of being overused; and yet… the imagery and scale one gets from watching this is damn impressive.

It really puts into an odd visual perspective just how bloody our planet’s history has been and despite the atrocities of just the last 100 years, I still maintain the position that our world today has finally learned something about large scale conflicts and will never as a globally communicative engage in such large scale operations again…  well, I find the concept of that inconceivable at least.