1) ‘You are a coward’: Hate and misperceptions about substance abuse are broader than I thought
2) Gorgeous cars of the art deco era.
3) This pedal-powered roller coaster gets a massive NOPE.
5) How God Created Animals. <-- Funny 6) Investigative reporter goes undercover in N Korea to find out the truth about life there, writes book, sees book listed as a “memoir” because the reporter is a woman.
1) An end to showering Apparently, the problem with smelly guys at cons is not that they don’t shower enough. It’s that they shower at all.
2) Drug or Tolkien elf? A quiz. I scored 23 out of 30, which is better than I expected.
3) 17 completed webcomics you can read from beginning to end.
4) AMC threatens to sue fansite over posted spoilers.
5) The defeat of the Confederacy should be a national holiday.
6) Funeral business dissolves the dead, pours them into town sewers.
1) This is strangely affecting.
2) Should you fuck this rock? Science says no.
3) Cinema audiences reproducibly vary the chemical composition of air during films, by broadcasting scene specific emissions on breath. Another reason for social animals to see movies in a crowded theater.
4) The Trailers for Ghostbusters (2016) and the Art of Editing Comedy by the creator of Every Frame a Painting.
5) The 35-Year-Long Hunt to Find a Fantasy Author’s Hidden Treasure.
6) Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war, again. Guess who’s winning? Filed under: The Future Is Stranger Than We Expected
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.
This is why I could never be a film director. I’m just not this visual.
I find this stuff super-interesting, though.
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) Skimp or Spend, an Illustrated Mens’ Style Buying Guide
2) Seven Things I Learned Reading ISIS’s Magazine.
3) She can write like a man, they said, by which they meant, She can write.
4) Piecaken
5) I dressed like Cookie (from EMPIRE) for a week to get over my Impostor Syndrome.
6) Purple Rain, remade in a language without a word for “purple”.
7) That history of the Mork and Mindy show you didn’t know you wanted.
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.
7)