Building the Big Apple

• A record 58 percent of Americans say legalize marijuana
• “Officers shall not take any enforcement action … for a violation of I-502”
• An insight to reporting on a movie press junket (for The Hobbit)
• The Zapruder Film: the saddest and most expensive 26 seconds of amateur film ever made
• The curious case of Clairvius Narcisse, and other instances of Hatian “zombies”
• Exploring the Paris Metro’s eerie ghost stations
• UC Berkeley Librarian to Daily Cal sex columnist: ‘Please don’t f*ck in the Library’
• Journey soundtrack nominated for a Grammy

• The BBC is making a six-part adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell!
• North Korea have found a secret Unicorn lair
• A rather rare interview with Fran Walsh on The Hobbit
• The really strong possibility to there being a Planescape: Torment sequel
• Apple, SSDs and the Fusion Drive rip-off
• The Austim Advantage
• The science behind those Obama campaign e-mails
• How long are people willing to wait for a video to load? Two seconds.
• A sociological take on the Powerball Facebook fake
• Video: a 1994 profile of… the Haunted Toaster
• Video: kitty in a claw crane machine

• Photos: What it looks like inside Amazon
• Truth in advertising: The Birth of ‘Just Do It’ and Other Magic Words
• Christopher Nolan discusses making his first feature Following
• On Monday, not a single violent crime was reported in New York City
• Chew On This: 10 Food Idioms Explained
• Like it or not, non-replaceable CPUs may be the future of desktops
• Augmenting a light bulb to make a touch screen desk
• Prices have finally been announced for the Surface Pro
• Plus Microsoft have put out a pretty great self-depreciating ad for IE10

• ‘They’re like Cream, but worse’: Harsh early reviews of classic albums
• New York Time’s 100 notable books of 2012
• The great American unproduced screenplay
• Was Tycho Brahe poisoned? According to new evidence, probably not
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them?
• Tips on how to avoid problem people
• How a man found out he has testicular cancer from taking a pregnancy test
• Thinking clearly about personality disorders
• Self-healing electronic skin that’s sensitive to the touch
• The Large Hadron Collider may have produced new matter
• And here’s an awesome interview with Bill Murray

• The Secret Lives of Supercutters
• NASA is actually working on a Faster-than-Light Warp Drive
• Cambridge to study technology’s risk to humans
• Shinichi Mochizuki’s ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians
• China’s state paper falls for Onion joke about Kim Jong-Un, publishes 55 photos in “sexy” tribute
• The New Moot: 4Chan wants to make Kim Jong-Un Time’s Person of the Year
• What would happen if Texas actually seceded?
• Building the World’s tallest skyscraper in 90 days
• An interesting outcome to a really good job interview

• Women in the porn industry are as healthy as any other women claims new study
• Hacking my vagina: making a vibrator that listens to your body
• Yeah, it’s Pitchfork, but still: How much money is actually made from streaming music?
• Interesting piece on misogyny in Industrial Music
• SpaceX’s Elon Musk: Your ticket to Mars? Half a million dollars
• Sweet… Notch, Gearbox, Yogscast, Day[9], Bethesda and Valve to go head-to-head in a TF2 charity match
• Teleglitch: Doom with a (top-down) view
• Teller (of Penn & Teller) on how magicians manipulate the mind
• How one fake press release on a Google “acquisition” fooled the press
• Facebook makes it official – an external advertising network coming soon
• Researchers have discovered the ‘White Noise’ of smell: ‘Olfactory White’
• And, thanks to nature, you are most likely to die at 11 am

• With 35mm film dead, will classic movies ever look the same again?
• Furthering that pretty good Prometheus theory (though still not redeeming the whole thing because that’s goddamn impossible): The Second Coming of Space Jesus
• On that, here’s a really great theory on Blade Runner and the whole Deckard/Replicant thing
• Fuck me, a developed ‘auto-targeting’ sniper rifle for anyone to use (and probably shouldn’t)
• King David: Why generals shouldn’t run the CIA
• Trevell Coleman: The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder
• The 72-year-old grandpa who models for teen-girl clothing (and totally rocks it)
• Live From the Inside: a radio show run by psychiatric patients
• The Aokigahara Forest: the world’s second most popular suicide destination
• The average person glances at their phone 150 times per day
• Website: Virtual Piano (and keyboard friendly)
• Also, the hosts of some show called NFL Kick Off crammed as many Princess Bride references as they possibly could into their half hour show and it’s been compiled here

• Scientists create brain implant that improves thinking in monkeys
• Gaining consciousness: Could the Internet Ever “Wake Up”?
• What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience
• MDMA through an MRI, for science!
• Wiki-editor’s guide: No one cares about your garage band
• Magic Mushrooms: Violins constructed from infected wood sound like those of Stradivari (awesome!)
• A 2,000 year old Magnolia seed was found, planted and it grew
• Potentially usable: The most well persevered Wolly Mammoth cells yet found
• 7 Things Science Says Make You Happy (Basically, I just need to keep up doing more of this)
• Who What Why: What is blood rain?
• The Astronomical Unit is now a fixed number: 149,597,870,700 meters
• Murder-Suicide in the Keys Unravels a Doctor’s Decades-Long Mystery
• Hollywood Accounting: How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million… And Still Isn’t Profitable
• The patent, used as a sword
• A real-time map of Global Cyberattacks
• Interactive cool: comparing map projections
• 99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!

• 10 of the oddest/awesome entries into 2013’s Guinness World Records
• Wind power: how we could supply all our energy needs without altering the global climate
• Wired profiles Cosmo the hacker ‘God’ who fell to Earth
• James Cameron puts to rest the idea that Jack could have fit on that plank with Rose
• Nice…  who did invent sliced bread?
• This man hasn’t missed a day at the pub for 72 years

Also, celebrity say “fuck” super cut…

Have a fucking good weekend y’all.

• Some guy called Brad does acid, live-tweets it
• Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China
• Sweden is so efficient with its waste-to-energy program, that it’s importing trash from other European countries
• Awesome: Focus on the Family is giving up on reaching out to Millennials
• The TPP: A first-hand look at the secret international talks that could change the Internet
• A university built a supercomputer with Raspberry Pi(s) and Lego
• Mathematician claims proof of connection between prime numbers
• It Ain’t 1979 Anymore: Why this week’s attacks on American embassies aren’t the Iran hostage crisis all over again.
• Somehow missed: Vice interviewed my hero cinematographer Christopher Doyle
• Cool… 45 Years of the John Peel Show is available on Soundcloud.
• Comedian Josh Sankey will travel across the U.S. with only bacon as currency
• On the tubes: a recording of Tolkien reciting a poem in Elvish

Lastly… cats compilation video, because cats compilation video.