Awesome. Good subject choice.

Tech/Science Stuff
• Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
• Heat-proof face paint to withstand bomb heat
• Researchers Believe They Have Found a Single Dose Cure for Malaria
• Researchers have also potentially deciphered the ‘manic gene’
• High quality Denisovan genome sheds light on human evolution
• Of course, the Antarctic may host large stores of methane
• Illuminating tales of modern mainframes
• A litigator’s love/hate relationship with Apple
• The History of the Floppy Disk
• From The Atlantic: How Can Bioscience Push the Limits of Lifespan?

Internet/Sociological Stuff
• Placing some context into the ‘odd’ Eastwood bit at the recent RNC: The Long History of Americans Debating Empty Chairs
• But then, #eastwooding twitter trend was pretty amusing
• The Samsung/Apple jury foreman’s explanation for verdict? Yeah, he doesn’t understand prior art
• Twitter Says It’s Going To Start Aiming Ads At Users Based On Content Of Tweets
• 4chan wants Taylor Swift to perform at a school for the deaf
• The Attention Economy is now the Location Economy
• A poll on polls shows they’re not very accurate
• From Ars Technica: How video copyright went insane

Culture/Media
• Another Willy Wonka letter of note: If ever an actor can do it – Gene can
• Inside Author Ray Bradbury’s FBI File: Was He a Communist Sympathizer? 
• Manga Artist Lets Anyone Use His Work, Royalty-Free
• This beer chase ad is pretty damn good
• Watch on this Youtube channel: every Troma film online
• This online tournament of movie sequels will be awesome!

Other Things
• Badass of the Week: Neil Armstrong
• An animation of the growth of Walmart in America
• What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?
• 12 Hotel Secrets by Hotel Staffs, From Minibar ‘Refills’ to Ritz-Carlton Largesse
• https://hackertyper.com/

And just because; here is some Maru…

…This One’s For Tony

Re-watched True Romance for the first time in 10 years tonight. Still like it. Always have. Always will.

Rest in peace good sir.

• Top 10 photos from the Guardian’s eyewitness app
• Surreal images of the Deepwater Horizon disaster
• The winners from National Geographic’s Traveler Photo Contest
• Infographic: comparing 10 years of the internet
• Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
• On the horizon: A male birth-control pill
• Science confirms: The only workday we like is Friday
• The Mpemba Effect: how hot water freezes faster than cold
• Amelia Earhart: 75 Years of Mystery — and Now an Answer?
• Scientists discover genetic key to Elephant Man’s disfigurement
• The lost towns of Russia
• Whut: eBay Bans Sales of Spells, Curses, Advice and Other ‘Intangibles’
• How to back up your Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts and why you should
• Iceland’s hard stance on bankers is working out pretty well
• Romney’s tax plan: mathematically impossible

Also, the Sarychev Volcano Eruption viewed from the International Space Station…

Evolution of the New York City Skyline via Smithsonian Magazine

•  Good Luck: A web project dedicated to amalgamating a ‘universal’ terms of service system
• The demise of the daily deal website business model
• Hottest temps ever at LHC and more hints about early Universe
• Food and exercise are not matter and anti-matter
• Weird: Ron Howard Directing Documentary on Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival
• Jodie Foster on the Stewart/Pattinson spectacle
• Keanu Reeves spills what Bill & Ted 3 is actually gonna be about
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to U.S. Interests in the Middle East
• Surreal: The General Mills Lawn Protester Has Died
• Humor: 45-year-old salesman apologises for closing ceremony
• Today’s not for epileptics website: https://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

Let’s see… Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken and Tom Waits? From the writer/director of In Bruges?

Hells-the-fuck-yeah!

• Taken over: Mountain Dew ‘Dub the Dew’ Campaign, by 4chan
• Colour printing reaches its ultimate resolution
• The surprising truth about heroin and addiction
• Is Mitt Romney too boring to make funny?
• Charlie Murphy is angry at the pussification of the world
• The time has come for America’s flight attendants to shut up
• What Did Dinosaur Meat Taste Like?
• Wind tunnel acrobatics is pretty sweet
• Flowcharted: The best and worst countries in the Olympic medal count
• How India’s favourite TV show uses data to change the world
• 14 great films that inspired regrettable trends
• 100 Wonderful and Terrible Movies That Never Existed

Also, ceiling cat is real and something straight out of an Aliens movie.

Sourcing footage from almost 300 movies (295 to be precise); here is Sir Mix-a-Lot’s classic romantic ballad in ‘spoken verse’.

Science/Tech stuff:

• From MIT: Scientists successfully map the mathematical computations of certain brain cells
• From NZ: Further understanding of how the brain allows for free will
• Awesome new tech: radio-wave based wireless power for the price of a penny
• I’ve always hypothesised drunkenly mused this: Scientists claim dark matter surrounds the sun

Arts-ish Stuff

• Woohoo: the potential for a third Bill and Ted movie
• A comic book based (but widely applicable) thought: When do you give up on a creator?
• Drinking has been covered, here’s how to eat like some of your favourite authors
• Editorial note to self: Writing under the influence of ourselves
• Random trivia: selling for US$4.3 million, Rhein II is the worlds most expensive photo (and it was photoshopped)

The rest (I suppose)…

• Fascinating read (even if it’s about Insane Clown Posse): The History of the Gathering of the Juggalos
• Even more ‘what the shit?’: A Mississippi county runs a ‘school-to-prison pipeline’
• Some photo portraits of ‘Preppers’ (people who actively prepare for ‘the end of the world’)
• Website: the Infographics Directory
• Video: The Wonder Years without voice-overs involves a lot of awkward silences
• This guy’s underwater GoPro footage of dolphins is pretty neat-o (music mix aside)

But this video of a dog attempting to steal some cabbage is just plain fucking adorable.

With a section dedicated to Nicolas Cage? You betcha.