• Rolling Stone has a Q&A with David Cross on ‘Arrested Development’
• This elaborates on the politics of The Dark Knight movies
• This’ll make you feel old: For incoming college freshmen, Kurt Cobain has always been dead
• And this, nostalgically older: The need to upgrade computers is coming to a halt
• On business/hiring: The Bozo Event Horizon
• The Googler whose job was to Browse the worst of the internet
• How one NASA scientist’s family Switched over to Martian Time
• Photos from August 22, 1969: The Beatles’ final photo shoot
• And a time capsule was opened and the 25 year-old predictions by some sci-fi writers about ‘what life would be like in 2012’ are read. Some points are fairly on-the-mark, but a few are also depressingly way off.

Vogue 120 shoot

• Games of Hoez: Police Seize Pimping Rules During Raid
• Holy crap… A real life Walter White wanted for manufacturing meth
• From Politico: Mission Impossible: Managing Joe Biden
• The ultimate Mitt Romney flip-flop compilation
• Woo! Millennials Buy More Books Than Everybody Else
• Some really fascinating societal trends
• Cool: The Marshmallow Test pays off, 40 years later
• How WikiLeaks Blew It: The sad downfall of Julian Assange and his empire of secrets
• The limit on how tall a building can be

Lastly, this video explaining how computers privately communicate with each other is really good.

• In 1970, a NASA director wrote this letter answering Why Explore Space?
• Worthwhile read: an unexpected meeting with the inventor of the first programmable computer
• Also, visit the very first web page from more than 20 years ago
• Reddit harasses a teen  who may have faked her own cyber-bullying
• Thirty Is Not The New Twenty: Why Your 20s Matter
• Sad news: Tig Notaro Has Breast Cancer
• The Criminalisation of Mental Illness in Black America
• A 74 year-old car buff is selling off his antique car collection, says he wasted his life and would rather have had a wife
• Meanwhile, a New York neighborhood had a proper funeral for a 1982 Honda Civic
• Swiss sheep will warn shepherds of wolf attacks by SMS
• UK Kindle eBook sales have overtaken Amazon UK print sales
• How the BBC crushed NBC and brought Olympics coverage into the future
• Editorial: So, bumbling Boris Johnson is lovable and funny? Well, have I got news for you
• Video: Olympic Stadium sings “All You Need is Love”
• Plus: 10 hours of Ping Pong

Also, here’s the trailer for Zero Dark Hour, the new film from Hurt Locker director Katherine Bigelow about the events of SEAL Team Six and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Slightly underwhelming, but I’m still looking forward to it.

Been busy and the bookmarks have been piling up so this is a somewhat larger collection and all over the place at that.

First, Space & Science stuff:
• June 30 to be 1 second longer
• Mars Reality Show Could Fund Manned Colony by 2023
• How Humans Could Get to Mars in Weeks, Rather than Months
• BBC’s Space Travel Guide
• Researchers Test Infinite-Capacity Wireless Connection

Internet/Computers stuff:
• Pre-computer chess algorithm by Alan Turing goes up against Grandmaster Kasparov
• We know what your doing: a social networking privacy experiment
• Because of Google Ads, TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope
• List of Worthwhile DOS Games

Sports!
• London’s wildly over-budget Olympics (101% over and counting)
• The US Olympic running team’s upcoming coin toss decision its 387-word procedure

And other things of very different tones (sorry)
• More than 200 church leaders across the US now say they no longer believe in God
• Conservative Rabbis Approve Gay Marriage
• Girl Found Alive In Dead Mom’s Arms After Tornado Throws Them From Home
• Journalist Natasha Smith’s account of being sexually attacked in Cairo
• Fan gets kicked out of Kenny Chesney concert for looking too much like Kenny Chesney
• Skater Punk Gets Stuck in Soda Machine, Needs Jaws of Life Rescue
• Swedish police appeal for help to find girl’s missing teddy
• Warren Ellis on the fiction of money
• Video: Nick Offerman Read Tweets from Young Female Celebrities
• Videos: 10 Essential Dirty Phrases in Sign Language
• Announced! The Big Lebowski 2: The Dude Goes To Washington
• Letters of Note: Helen Keller’s letter to Mark Twain in lieu of being unable to attend a Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind conference