• A lengthy, well thought out breakdown of Pokemon’s Post-Capitalist society
• What Is Nostalgia Good For? Quite a Bit, Research Shows
• When launching a $200m rocket, install the parts right way up
• US agency baffled by modern technology, destroys mice to get rid of viruses
• Possible explanation for cosmic radio bursts: Meet the “blitzar”
• Sun’s Loops Are Displaying an Optical Illusion
• New Evidence: Antarctica’s Ancient, Ice-Covered Lake is Full of Life
• Study Finds Mammals Can ‘Choose’ Sex of Offspring
• 29-Year-Old Gets $15-Million to Decipher Song Lyrics
• The positive feedback loop: How IBM’s Watson Learns
• Marvel’s experimentation with the medium of digital comics
• Desert Bus: The Very Worst Video Game Ever Created
• If Films Were Reviewed Like Video Games
• Beverly Hills moms say pot makes them better mothers
• Artist uses rare comic book in paper mache sculpture
• 10 Musical Genres That Should Never, Ever Be Revived
• Planet of the Castors – Beaver kills man in Belarus

Optical Ripple by Simon C Page

• An ad agency is testing adverts that transmit via train windows into a person’s head
• The Nigerian Prince and the Valley Girl: chronicling the changing history of spam
• The amazing story of Kim Jong-Il’s sushi chef
• Images of the ‘World’s largest building’ now open in China
• New Zealand, home to the best/worst news graphic ever
• History repeats as Spain’s best and brightest flee
• PBS is curating great unreleased interviews through their youtube channel Blank on Blank
• It’s kinda lunar littering, but I so want to send a £300 Kickstarter spacecraft to the moon
• Avatar creator Bryan Konietzko responds on colouring and dynamic lighting in animation
• DC teased out some details on Neil Gaiman’s new Sandman comic
• GIFs: How marbles are made
• Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age
• Former Blizzard dev: World of Warcraft “ruined a genre”

And awesome! New Walking Dead DLC has been released!

Thomas Jackson

• Exposing the Racket: A Simple Stunt Reveals How Blogs Will Print Anything for Pageviews
• Cleaner air linked to more hurricanes
• English is no longer the language of the web
• Only The Lonely By Stephen Fry
• Some of the interesting mindgames of the Korean DMZ
• Secrets of the Magus: a 1993 profile of magician Ricky Jay
• Sophia Stewart, The Real Creator of ‘The Matrix,’ Wins Billion Dollar Copyright Case
• The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
• Deconstructing the Cinema’s resolution jargon
• Mystery solved: meteorite caused Tunguska devastation
• DroneNet: The future of pizza delivery
• Man creates “invisible headphones” by implanting magnets into his ears
• Ryan Holiday on How To Read More
• Infographic: An Astounding Map of Every River in America

• A few notes on The Culture by Iain M Banks
• A Nigerian cook survived 2 days underwater in a shipwreck air bubble
• CIA Releases Analyst’s Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture
• Why France insist school pupils master philosophy
• A SEAL Team 6 veteran comes out as transgender and what it could mean for the military
• Fitch says China credit bubble unprecedented in modern world history
• The numerous crazy keywords the NSA is tracking
• Brain training app brings big data to human cognition
• Recent breakthroughs mean we are on the cusp of Big Graphene Solar Sails for crude interstellar missions
• How Close Are We to Getting Google Glass in a Contact Lens?
• Is “ironic” the most abused word in English? When is it correct to say “that’s ironic?”
• The Quiet Shame of the Half-Book Reader
• At The Movies, The Women Are Gone
• I wanna play Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe

• The New Spoiler Culture: Game of Thrones and the Fight to Live Uninformed
• Op-ed: How We’re Turning Digital Natives Into Etiquette Sociopaths
• Like-Farming: Facing up to Facebook scams
• NY Times Interview: The Joke’s on Louis C.K.
• Kickstarer: a doco that’ll explore the controversy of ‘controversial’ comedy.
• Les Blank, Filmmaker of America’s Periphery, Dies at 77
• Op-ed: Have Celebrities Hijacked Our Diplomatic Process?
• Google engineer on DRM: It’s about controlling hardware companies
• Hyper-Realistic CGI is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers
• Design Trends: Can We Please Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
• The Murderer Who Pulled a Real Life Shawshank Redemption Escape
• These identical twins, seperated at birth, found each other online 26 years later.
• Cookie Monster, Elmo in Times Square trouble
• Attach a camera to a police officer and you reduce 88% of the complaints against him/her.
• Also, their precaution of self-fingerprinting a stopped vehicle before approaching is pretty smart.
• I want: a 3D printed GlaDOS lamp

Website: How far to Mars?

• I do not fear death a 2011 essay by Roger Ebert
• Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
• Vlado Taneski a journalist who ended up reporting his own crimes
• In 2003: The 727 that Vanished
• The Plutonium ‘Gate To Hell’ Found In Ancient City Of Hierapolis
• How one man’s lies almost destroyed the comics industry
• Tantalizing New Clues Into the Mysteries of Dark Matter
• Tactile Helmet Uses Vibrations to Help Firefighters ‘See’ in the Dark
• Supercomputers help reveal dinosaur mechanics
• Best audio interview is best: Alec Baldwin sits down with Thom Yorke

Stevefaces (gallery)

• ‘Stomach share’ The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
• How stomach bacteria may affect weight gain
• New study to measure effect of hip hop music on native birds
• This Whale’s (After) Life
  Studies into how a single whale’s body can support an ecosystem for years familiar to those of hydrothermal vents.
• Boxcar Energy – Brilliant new strategies for storing power. No. 4: First you roll a train uphill …
• Airline to charge overweight passengers more
• The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
• How to Build Your Own Syncing RSS Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS
• The Saddest Map In America
  Charts the “missed connections” of Craigslist
• With S3, The Walking Dead is a “different show”—the most interesting one yet
• 10 amazing scientific facts about lists
• Huey Lewis reverses roles in this clever American Psycho parody

• HEAVILY ARMED SEX CRAZED DOLPHINS on RAMPAGE in Black Sea
  (new ‘best headline ever’ nominee)
• Scientists have gotten one rat brain to ‘talk’ to another using electronic link
• A study has shown that using a handsfree kit while driving can be just as dangerous as being over half the legal alcohol limit. Texting? You’re totally shitfaced.
• Gender differences in education scores persist regardless of gender equality
• A story full of aww: How a newly wed couple found their son in the Subway
• An illuminating article on How Disney bought Lucasfilm — and its plans for ‘Star Wars’
• Great short essay: The many wonders of Christopher Walken
• Scathingly brilliant – An Oscar voter’s brutally honest ballot
• Nice op-ed on design: Why we love beautiful things
• The King Clone is estimated to be the world’s oldest bush, dating around 11,700 years
• Atlas Obscura: The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India
• Vice answers: What do hate groups think of Jennifer Lawrence?
• Your obsessive love or hatred of me means nothing in the grand scheme of geological time by (not) Justin Bieber
• Video: Hitler finds out Google Reader is shutting down
  (Looks like me and Hitler finally agree on something)

Whoops. This was meant to be posted weeks ago…

The Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses

• If you can’t manage comments well, don’t offer comments at all
• Love of Musical Harmony Is Not Nature but Nurture
• How to turn living cells into computers
• Small-molecule drug drives cancer cells to suicide
• Declassified: America’s Secret Flying Saucer
• The village with a 9,000 year old history
• A cleaner form of demolition – Japan’s incredible shrinking building
• What it’s like to leave Westboro Babtist Church (for Megan Phelps-Roper no less)
• Stop pretending cyberspace exists as a mythical country
• Damnit science… Germans developing weed-controlling laser armed drones
• Techno Viking and the curse of internet celebrity
• Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition
• Unable to afford life insurance, Apollo 11’s crew got creative in providing for their family
• How to win arguments by pretending to be a simpleton
• Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction
• Link: a 404 page where you save Lemmings
• The search for the genetics of intelligence
• The giant camera resolution tests scattered across America
• Inside China’s genome factory
• Three Plus One Geometries of the Universe
• Kubrick’s rejection letter to Anthony Burgess on their Napoleon collaboration
• “Ok, Glass, record a video”: Google provides another glimpse of Glass

• A gamer ‘leaked’ fake news on the new Xbox and it went mainstream within hours, wonderfully re-illustrating just how easy it is to be a ‘source’ in today’s ‘information age’. Nicely done, though seems to think this is lack of journalistic integrity is unique to video game reporters. If only.
• Kottke on inexpert experts: The challenges of conversational journalism
• So, this techwriter dies and goes to heaven…
• The best shots fired in the Oxford Comma wars
• The deadly history of Persia’s ancient assassins
• Yeesh… the strange, violent reach of Israel Keyes
• Interesting feature: Why you truly never leave high school
• Grantland: A battle for the best Chappelle’s Show sketch ever
• Prototype: a privacy visor that blocks facial recognition software
• Must remember this for the next time I have a pool and/or a party: projecting onto 65,000 floating ping pong balls