1) An OKCupid profile for “A Normal Human.” #lol
2) New data supports Jane Jacobs’s ideas of what makes a city great.
3) Comedian reads fake book covers on subway, records reactions. Very funny, although the covers look fakey.
4) The Brilliant Career of John Cazale. If you’re only going to appear in five movies…
5) Toyota’s wooden concept car, as family heirloom.
6) Fun drawings of monsters added to photos of real world scenes.
1) The weird physiological trait that suggests a young person is prone to violence.
3) Volleyball or fire extinguisher?
4) An oral history of the Justice League.
5) Classical art, now available gluten-free.
6) How Alfred Hitchcock blocks a scene. Video. I’m really loving this genre of short documentaries about filmmaking techniques.
7) “The Worst Game I’ve Every Played.” Video. Bought off of Steam, this game is amazingly shoddy work.
1) The Author Who Cyberstalked Me.
2) “Trust me. I’m an engineer.” Video.
3) You have already missed your chance to enter the first beauty contest judged by robots.
4) A small 2009 car demolishes a 1959 Chevy. Oh, what 50 years of safety regulation can do!
5) Surprising applications of the Magnus Effect. Video. This is cool.
6) Highway font Clearview being ditched in favor of older Highway Gothic.
1) Why you don’t want to wear metal inside an MRI. Video.
2) 15 things I learnt about Islam and British values being a gay boy living opposite a mosque. h/t James Nicoll
3) MRA Dilbert. Combining Scott Adam’s own words with Scott Adam’s art.
4) Poll results: The best video essays of 2015
5) Get rich or die vlogging: The sad economics of internet fame.
6) DIY Netflix socks will automatically pause your show when you fall asleep.
1) Icons Unmasked. I liked the Goku one.
2) Theater from the back of a car during a traffic jam. Video.
3) The top ten Lifehacker posts of all time.
4) “If you were with me, you’d suffer.” Australia falls in love with Chinese dating show.
5) What it’s like to drive the worst car ever built.
6) Every country where James Bond has spied.
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1) Wheel of Misfortune. Love this comic. Love. It.
2) Every JRPG ever: Video. Reader, I laughed at them.
3) Exotic polyhedra dice, made of marble, gator jawbones, carbon fiber, and more.
5) 15 Delicious Regional Sandwiches. A chow mein sandwich? I don’t think so.
6) Texts from HP Lovecraft. This made me laugh.
7) Ten tabletop games that you can play as couples. Video.
1) How One Misunderstanding in the 1870s Created an Entire Sci-Fi Subgenre
2) Every state flag is wrong, and here is why.
3) Someone is setting hipster traps in New York.
4) An “accomplished writer” takes James Patterson’s “Masterclass.”
5) What if Werner Hertzog directed Ant-Man?
6) Architects crowdfund to build £1.85 billion Minas Tirith in England.
7) I read NPR’s 100 best sff novels and they were shockingly offensive. Nothing to argue with here.
1) Why do people go bald? Video
2) A conversation between graffiti artists and removers.
3) Fearless girl rips out own tooth with a slingbow. ::faints::
4) The names of ten fireworks effects.
5) Assigned to write an essay about a “leader” a group of teens decide to stand out from the pack and contact gangster Whitey Bulger in prison. He wrote back.
6) Ten Paintings of Guy Fieri as a Renaissance Baby.
7) The Detective As Speech. “An early letter I received after publishing my first book, Indemnity Only, came from a woman who wanted to know why V. I. Warshawski was allowed to “talk back” to men without being punished. The writer wasn’t seeking help in learning to talk back herself; she was criticizing V. I. for behaving in a way that was neither right nor natural.” h/t James Nicoll
1) Peanuts comics with Game of Thrones quotes.
2) The Tumblr I Work At A Public Library.
4) Energy harnessed from humidity can power small devices. Cool.
5) If JK Rowling had written the Harry Potter books from Voldemort’s point of view.
6) Remove cat before takeoff. Video.
7) Six SF/F authors who hated their legacy. Quick note to the universe: I don’t know if I would grow to hate a book of mine that became wildly successful, but I’m willing to risk it.