• Fucking hell… How a fatal accident victim’s insurance company ended up in court defending her killer
• And then the story of how United Airlines lost a 10 year-old and didn’t care
• But at least the leader of an Hungarian anti-Semitic party discovered he’s Jewish
• Further interesting ‘discrimination’ as fight attendants force single men to sit away from unattended children
• From the New Yorker: Why nobody in America cared about the Sikh temple shooting
• The circle is complete as growing Indian companies begin outsourcing jobs to the US
• Just cause: Teddy Roosevelt’s magnificent sideburns
• Online: The lastest 360 degrees panorama of Mars
• How science-y are the social sciences?
• Forbes: Beck ‘produces’ a genius innovation that appeals to the user-generated generation
• Awesome is: this comic book store designed to look like a comic book
• 11 pop culture references younger readers won’t get
• Wow: Bill Finger – the Batman origin story you’ve never heard before
• I’m so making all of these: Simple ways to make food taste awesome
• Visualised (awesomely): the imports and exports of small arms (1992 – 2010)
• An ‘everyone-is-lying-to-me’ thriller movie trailer parody: Ghost Tits
• Also, there’s this pretty prophetic PSA by 5th grade kids about the internet (made in 1995)
• Today’s distracting online game: https://thisissand.com/

Finally, here’s a short video of the aptly named Teddy, the asshole cat…

• 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.

As The LEGO Group celebrates its 80th Birthday, we take a look back at its history with this short animated film.

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.

Featuring a view that is both very nice and absolutely terrifying.

Fuck you heights.

• Woah: Some unknown disease is causing a woman to grow fingernails instead of hair
• Tumblr: Famous album covers recreated with my socks
• Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch left some instructions in the advent of his death
• New favourite web comic: The Monkey’s You Ordered
• Drinking at work is good for creativity (not so much for productivity)
• Mitt Romney Sure Does Lie a Lot, Doesn’t He?
• Scary: Google to include your own Gmails in search results?

Also, this amazing 3 year-old bucket drummer… is only 3 friggin’ years old!

Hands down; Greatest. Version. Ever.

How good is this stone mason at his job? Madly skilled, to the point of mesmerising.