Fascinating Photos of Abandoned Olympic Sites Around the World

• Mystery fossil turns out to be giant fungus
• Europe’s oldest prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria
• North Korean army minister ‘executed with mortar round’
• I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough
• In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
• The bleeding edge of self-healing skin-like materials
• Popular physics theory running out of hiding places
• Totally Bizarre Experimental Video Explores Slit Scanning
• The Island Where People Forget to Die
• For Zelda-playing daughter, dad gives Link a sex change
• Australian drunk survives attempt to ride crocodile
• Jimmy’s End by Alan Moore: exclusive look at the first full trailer
• Chris Addison: Fuckety-Bye To All That
• Op-ed: Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
• Puzzle: Four Men in Hats
• Flash-based puzzle: Einsteins Riddle
• and Frog Faction

• Feel Good Read of the Week: 6 True Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
• The redemption of Michael K Williams
• David Fincher: A Film Title Retrospective
• New study says music is way more depressing now
• Why Do So Many Pretty Female Comedians Pretend They’re Ugly?
• 579 – A 1939 Map of Physics
• Arctic sea ice coverage plunges to record low
• Our image of Africa is hopelessly obsolete
• What Do Swedes Think of the Swedish Chef?
• Ask A Writer: “How Do I Write What The Audience Wants To Read?”
• Images examples of how a colour-blind person sees the world (and the genius of Van Gogh)
• Couple Faces $4,000 Fine for High-Decibel Sex
• Naked People Saluting Prince Harry: The Definitive Gallery
• Make it so: How three guys got most of the Enterprise-D bridge
• Video: Insane Clown Posse Watch “Call Me Maybe”
• Interesting: 10 weird wikis
• Gallery: Inside a Creepy Abandoned Russian Sub

Old Spice’s new internet ad continues their new age tradition of ultimate weirdness and presents an innovative new approach to being a one man band.

BONUS: if you play this through their vimeo page, you’ll get to ‘play’ Terry as well with your keyboard.

INTERNET!

…there is this awesome door and its Miles Davis impression.

Title says it all…

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.

Hands down; Greatest. Version. Ever.

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• 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.

With two prior DUIs, David Wheaton led cops along highways around western and northern Houston, at one point reaching 92 mph, the official limit for the micro-vehicle. Eventually Wheaton drove all the way to his driveway, where police arrested him without fuss.
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• Today’s rhetorical question: A prequel to The Shining: ‘Wholly unnecessary’?
• The curious case of the blind man who can still see
• I need to keep better track of Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, he wants to clone a dinosaur for a Jurassic Park-style resort
• Bruce Lee on transformation
• DARPA and NIH to fund ‘human body on a chip’ research
• Energy Efficiency: New Drywall Building Material Can Cut Buildings’ Energy Consumption by 40%
• Abraham Lincoln Scrawled This Astonishing (Seven Word) Note To Save a Soldier’s Life
• This YouTube video could help cure Vertigo
• What Aurora Victims Might Face if James Holmes Pleaded Insane
• Answered: Do Olympic/Competitive Swimmers Pee in the Pool?
• A Glossary: of ‘carny’ slang
• Cooking Mama: Breaking Bad edition
• Visualised: the business of Bond films
• Tumblr: Go Cook Yourself

Also, Google Maps is teaming up with NASA to add street view of the Kennedy Space Center. Awesome.