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Muppet Who. Check out more of Amy Mebberson’s funny, skilful work on her Tumblr.

Young woman journo infiltrates the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Once you would have had to be a seriously dedicated collector who had scoured dozens of books and odd periodicals to collect this information. Now it’s right there on Wikipedia. The Tehran UFO incident of 1976. Whippersnappers these days have it all so easy.

Dogs in flight and dogs shaking off water

Another interesting experiment in alternative exchange models: “I’m going to try offering people a new way to obtain my games without buying them or stealing them. It is this: do purposeful acts of social good, tell me about those purposeful acts of social good, and then you get the game.” For example, you go and pick up litter from a local park, then tell him, and he’ll give you the game. (Obviously this doesn’t scale *at all*, but for niche/small-audience products this has a very nice feel.)

The weird science of coffee stain rings

The only review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes you need to read. (Minor spoilers I guess but they’re worth it.)

The Ross Sea: It’s a Horrible Place

(that’s a competition entry by my buddy Matt. See also this bedtime story.)

[late addition! thanks Maire] Crazy dragon illusion…

And finally… hipster ipsum, because ordinary filler text just isn’t cool enough.