• Being ‘it’: these guys have played a game of tag for 23 years now and it’s awesome
• Last Saturday, over 2800 spaceships clashed in a battle costing thousands of dollars
• Self-immolators in Tibet near 100 as pressure grows from China
• Smithsonian on the story behind Banksy
• Amazingly, this Russian family was cut off from civilisation for 40 years
• Strange Geographies: the beautiful and alien Iceland
• On Barnes & Noble and the end of the mega-bookstore
• Computer programming languages aren’t copyrightable, says a High Court judge
• Surgeon Simulator 2013 is the new medical QWOP
• Letter of Note: The Alien father is HR Giger
• A great list of 36 supervillain musical numbers
  (I have a huge hankering to re-watch Gremlins 2 right now)

Also, it’s pretty mean, but this edit of Lance Armstrong’s confession interview with Oprah recut to the lyrics of Radiohead’s Creep is very well done.

I honestly can’t stop enjoying this musical of sorts…

I like it when I get two Wire related things over two days…

Also, if you missed it earlier, this write up/interview/retrospective with The Wire cast and crew makes for a great read.

Christ, this video confirms the fundamental laws of awesome that Arnie should make a musical; or that this should be the blueprint for the upcoming remake I just read that they’re making (really?).

Also, of similar awesomeness is the Amazing Robocop Rap.