Deconstructing the beach sequence from Jaws
Fascinating and deeply disturbing account of the Boston bombing trial – the questions that were asked, and the questions that weren’t, and what that reveals
VHS covers for recent movies. Superb.
Here’s a poem: The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books (via Pearce)
Also via Pearce: President Obama unleashes the bees as children scream in terror
Two Medieval Monks invent bestiaries – this has gone viral for good reason, it’s very hard to maintain a straight face through this.
Apparently you can bounce a battery to see if it still has a charge
Ten overlooked horror movie classics – I ran this by Pearce and some of these even he hadn’t heard about.
Star Trek fan film, featuring multiple cast members from real Star Trek, and, like whoa man. I don’t care about Trek but this is something special.
Via Daryl & Suraya, a map of rude placenames in the UK
The five psychological barriers to climate action
Via Nancy & Michael U, the New Yorker on the fascinating way “no” can mean “yes”.
Shakespeare Star Wars guy is turning Jar Jar into a political radical.
Jen W’s Contributoria piece on the parents of missing Mexican students at the UN
Fifty great genre-bending books everyone should read – I mostly clicked through to compare cover designs. The rules of cover design are different in each genre, so these books pose some challenges!
And finally, a simply perfect Carly Rae Jepsen/NIN mashup.