1) I wish someone could explain to me the causes of the great Balloons Monkey War. Added later: Ah! It was unprovoked Monkey aggression.

2) Five links about selling books.

3) The Venn Diagram of Monsters.

4) Now that Harriet the Spy is being updated as Harriet the blogger, Jezebel.com offers other classics of children’s lit that could be updated for modern times.

5) What Science TV is like. via nihilistic_kid

6) Math A Capella (the internet triples its total nerdiness with one video)

7) If Pitagora Suichi made a music video. Yeah, this one is seriously cool, possibly the coolest thing I’ve linked to in a long time. Don’t skip it.