• What Do The Authors Of Serialized Works Owe To Their Fans?
• Thank you for killing my novel
• Girl Accidentally Emails Prospective Employer Pic Of Nic Cage instead of CV
• Batman could fly, but he’d die horribly on landing, science students conclude
• The Mountain Goats announce new album: Transcendental Youth
• The Black Punk, the Black Geek, and Other Black People You Don’t Meet on TV
• Every Single Media Outlet Is Misreporting Obama’s Tax Proposal
• Supreme Court flip-flops: Health care wasn’t the first. It won’t be the last.
• Google Decides To Step Into The Gay Rights Arena
• The 20 Most Beautiful Museums in the World
• Video: 16-bit Game of Thrones, Season 2
• Video: this self taught 6 year old drummer is really good and depresses me
• Infographic: The best and worst places in the world to be a woman
• Comic: Learn Korean in 15 minutes

And then there’s this awesome report on some late-night BBQ chips bandits.

Been a while since I’ve posted about an artist in a while; but the moment I laid eyes on this guys work, it’s a pretty simple choice of who.

HR-FM is a freelance illustrator/concept artist who works out of Japan and currently works around the concept of “The fossil which future people may dig”.

By pairing incompatible time bases to create scenes I call “the future past”, I express both surprise and recollection.

Official Website | digmeout profile

LEGO life-size forest in the Australian outback

• Don’t wipe out the masterpiece! A teacher who makes 25-minute whiteboard artworks in his lunch break
• The Master Race’s Graphic Design Manual
• Here’s What An Animated Font Looks Like
• The Not-So-Perfect Kilogram and Why the Metric System Might Be Screwed
• Dark Matter Filament Found, Says Scientists
• Women Infected with Toxoplasma Gondii Parasite Have Increased Risk of Attempting Suicide
• GQ writer interviews six people on different levels of income
• San Diego Accidentally Set Off All Its Fourth Of July Fireworks at Once
• Pearl Jam Allows Longtime Fan To Create Setlist For Amsterdam Show
• Forget rap disses, here’s The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults in History

Lastly, this: Super Moonwalking.

I love a good flashmob video, especially when it involves the use of classical music.

In this video, a little girl throws a coin into a bassist busker’s hat who then begins to play and slowly, a full orchestra gradually emerges in the town square of Sabadell, Spain to play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. And while the audio quality is a little too clean and to have been recorded on location, the effect of the music and the giddy reactions of the crowd are too good to completely care about such details.

Interesting…

A groundbreaking new series by acclaimed producer Bryan Singer, H+: The Digital Series takes viewers on a journey into an apocalyptic future where technology has begun to spiral out of control… a future where the world’s population has retired its cell phones and laptops in favor of stunning new device by Hplus Nano Teoranta, an innovative technology company that has found a way to connect the Internet to the human mind 24 hours a day.

Premiering online August 8, 2012.

20 years ago, filmmaker Jeremiah McDonald recorded himself with a message to his future self. This year at the age of 32, he’s taken that message and created this great video of himself now, talking to that 12 year old.

Merging Oceans photo

• Quantum Computing Research Breakthrough: no cooling required, as diamond stored quantum bits last for nearly two seconds
• First animation reveals how a face forms in the womb
• Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker’s Library
• 572 – The Phantom Island of Brazil
• Hidden Doggerland underworld uncovered in North Sea
• Will the boomers trust anyone under 30?
• What Is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect
• Shoe pants??
• Musicians missing royalties over copy-cat chart songs
• Charles Carreon drops lawsuit against The Oatmeal
• EU rules that downloaded games can be resold
• How Steven Spielberg’s Malfunctioning Sharks Transformed the Movie Business

Also, a trailer for Jerry Seinfeld’s new show called ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’. You’re guess is as good as mine.

Featuring Alley Boy, Swank and the best motherfucking cameo by Tina Fey!

Since the announced discovery of the Higgs boson, I’ve been ranting on about it to damn near everyone I come into contact with, on and offline.

Thankfully there’s this video doing the online rounds at the moment that does a much better job of explaining what the search for the Higgs has been all about and incidentally, also involves less crazy eyes and frothing at the mouth.

The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.

Blergh. Been a long conferencing day of artists talking about art (and everything in between), but just wanted to show tonight’s gem courtesy of one of my favourite places on the internet:

Try it starting with whatever random wiki article here.

It’s like the online fusion of the good ol’ Moore’s Law and Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Thanks /b/.

(Also, thanks to wikipedia tonight, I have a new lifelong goal to get a Erdős number… somehow)