Amanda Hugginkiss (variant) by Tim Doyle

• You Won’t Finish This Article – Why people online don’t read to the end
• Why Does the American Media Get Big Stories Wrong?
• 33 Unwritten Social Rules Everyone Needs To Follow
• Changes in China: 2000, now and 2025
• Then again, China’s real-estate bubble
• How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
• Despite doomsayers, the world’s agriculture is on the rise
• The man who can see in ultraviolet
• Two accelerators find signs of a particle that nobody can explain
• A huge discovery in prime numbers and what it means for the future of math.
• Watch a Bread City Slowly Decompose Over 6 Months
• The sealed bottle garden still thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
• When We Held Kings: The oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker
• Moby Offers Music to Filmmakers for Free
• Trends found amongst the top Youtube channels

• It’s ALIVE! First ever software simulation of an entire organism
• iPv4 addresses: The UK is predicted to run out sometime this weekend
• Meet: the ‘bots’ that edit Wikipedia
• Ha! Good Luck! YouTube urges it’s users to start using their full names when commenting
• At the Olympic opening ceremony: The US will probably not ‘dip’ it’s flag and here’s why
• Will London Really Erase Banksy’s New Olympics Art?
• Damn! Some unlucky guy dropped a $77,000 bottle of Connac
• Sometimes, sometimes a man’s gotta track down The Big lebowski filming locations
• Christopher Nolan’s farewell letter to the Batman franchise
• Trivia: Why we don’t consume dairy products from mammals that aren’t cows
• Infographic: How the internet shat all over the music industry
• Is it a subconscious fear of space exploration and the universe that explains NASA’s budget cuts?
• How networks try to trick viewers into thinking their awful shows are critically adored (spoiler: lying)

Also, a downward lighting negative ground flash: at 7,207 images per second. Awesome.

So I wanted to post about this robot developed at Tokyo Uni’s Ishikawa Oku Laboratory that uses a high-speed camera to predict how a human hand moves during a game of paper-scissors-rock, allowing it to react within one millisecond…

But then I scrolled down to see the youtube comments and as always, they’re the wonderful antithesis of horror and hilarity.

Forgot to post this last week, certainly not safe for work, but you probably don’t like your job anyway and this video is awesome.

I meant to post this on Halloween but was hallucinating with a fever instead.

…church.

There doesn’t seem to be a code to embed it, but if you’re a fan of The Wire and by god you bloody well should be, there’s a great hour long interview with it’s creator David Simon to be found here.

Feeling the need to post a video, here’s one of my favourite scenes from the first season.

So strange I love it, plus it features the voice of Matt Berry. Hottest voice ever.

Woke up this morning to the sound of glass smashing. Thanks crappy garage door and insane winds combo. You’re a winner.

Meanwhile, well aware how behind I am, have taken measures to catch up on the fact that I’ve not been watching movies that much. Not as much as usual anyhow. And I seem to be buying lots of DVDs buts not watching them all. I won’t mention the exact number/ratio to the total number of DVDs, but it’s pretty bad. So the current aim is to watch about two or three movies watched per day till I’ve caught up, which ain’t too impractical of a number, it’ll just take a while… maybe a few months. (yeah, that many).

Internet has been pretty quiet the last few days and everything else in general really. Well… nothing worth blogging about. Unless you can write about writing? Pfft. Boring.

So here’s an article of pure baddassery where a man wrestled with a 12 foot tiger shark for two hours to save his friend (with pictures!) here.

And a video of epic wtf proportions…

Yeah, I’m just as confused as to why I posted that too. And now I go in search of coffee, cause Mondays suck and my head feels a little like this Gary Busey gif…

Still pretty tired and have to wake up early in the morning so keeping this even briefer.

Cracked.com is great. This new post Clippy Finally Messes With the Wrong Word Doc is pretty amusing.

So is this of a Man Glued to Toilet Seat.

New Scientist presents the Mystery of the Missing Mini-Galaxies and my mind went a little missing reading it.

And finally a very cool Lego animated video tribute to the 8-bit games of yesteryears. Cheers to Fin for the awesomeness there.