Optical Ripple by Simon C Page

• An ad agency is testing adverts that transmit via train windows into a person’s head
• The Nigerian Prince and the Valley Girl: chronicling the changing history of spam
• The amazing story of Kim Jong-Il’s sushi chef
• Images of the ‘World’s largest building’ now open in China
• New Zealand, home to the best/worst news graphic ever
• History repeats as Spain’s best and brightest flee
• PBS is curating great unreleased interviews through their youtube channel Blank on Blank
• It’s kinda lunar littering, but I so want to send a £300 Kickstarter spacecraft to the moon
• Avatar creator Bryan Konietzko responds on colouring and dynamic lighting in animation
• DC teased out some details on Neil Gaiman’s new Sandman comic
• GIFs: How marbles are made
• Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age
• Former Blizzard dev: World of Warcraft “ruined a genre”

And awesome! New Walking Dead DLC has been released!

Thomas Jackson

• Exposing the Racket: A Simple Stunt Reveals How Blogs Will Print Anything for Pageviews
• Cleaner air linked to more hurricanes
• English is no longer the language of the web
• Only The Lonely By Stephen Fry
• Some of the interesting mindgames of the Korean DMZ
• Secrets of the Magus: a 1993 profile of magician Ricky Jay
• Sophia Stewart, The Real Creator of ‘The Matrix,’ Wins Billion Dollar Copyright Case
• The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
• Deconstructing the Cinema’s resolution jargon
• Mystery solved: meteorite caused Tunguska devastation
• DroneNet: The future of pizza delivery
• Man creates “invisible headphones” by implanting magnets into his ears
• Ryan Holiday on How To Read More
• Infographic: An Astounding Map of Every River in America