STS-135 Launch Day (201107080010HQ), originally uploaded by nasa hq photo.

• Art attacks: From vomiting on Mondrian to elbowing a Picasso – And throwing a Hirst in the bin
• Crazy Cooking Methods – School of Food – Sous vide, ceviche and the rest
• Cooking on wood by The Roasting Plank Company – Planks and paper
• The Real Mahatma Gandhi – Magazine – The Atlantic – Hitchens wields the hatchet
• Wordographic – A theme designed for writers and text-heavy tumblelogs
• Victoria and Albert Museum – Patchwork: Pattern Maker – Quilty
• Taking a Private Trip in London’s Parliamentary Train Service – "A mysterious train runs between North and South London during the week, direct between two stations that shouldn’t be possible to travel between"
• FreezePage – Take snapshots of any Web page –
• University of Arts London Summer Shows – Flavorpill London –
• Stonewall from government on library closures –
• Tumblelog Backup Tool –

• Broken City Lab | Art and Collaborative Social Practice in Windsor, Ontario (South Detroit) –
• Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s barley recipes | Life and style | The Guardian – inc. spiced lamb and pearl barley

• City of Seeds – Lapham’s Quarterly – "it has no native habitat but the street" – City of Seeds [MN]

• Shorter E-Books Show Promise for Mobile Devices – NYTimes.com –

• So who wants to run our libraries? – Assorted, mostly pathetic, alternative providers
• The George Inn, Southwark, London SE1 1NH – Pubs.com Passionate about Pubs – Giant coaching inn
• Ye Olde Mitre Tavern, Farringdon, London pub guide | fancyapint? – A little bit of Cambridgeshire in the City of London
• Public houses in London Topics at DuckDuckGo – hic
• Top Sites: The 500 Most Important Websites on the Internet –
• IpcressFile_17.jpg (JPEG Image, 696×297 pixels) –
• Immigration officer sacked for putting wife he didn’t like on terror watch list – Why "If you've got nothing to hide…" is nonsense, part the umpteenth
• ‘Death by GPS’ in Death Valley – "People don't realize that if they tell the unit to find the shortest route to somewhere, it's not necessarily finding the shortest, safe, paved route"

• gifninja.com – convert your video to animated gif –
• Todd McLellan – Dissassembled and other work
• Abandoned on Everest – "Every single one of the 40-odd climbers attempting the summit that day left the man in the cave, whose name was David Sharp, to freeze"

• Art Preview: Sell A Minute Of Your Life In Brixton Market | Londonist –
• STAGE –
• THE 2010-11 PRINCETON SCIENCE PLAYWRITING CONTEST –
• An Annotated List of Science & Math Related Plays Reviewed, a CurtainUp feature –
• Plays on Science –

• Shady Characters » Colophon –
• Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space | Brain Pickings – Priceless 9-minute animated adaptation of Carl Sagan's iconic Pale Blue Dot

• Edgelands – Remaking the Landscape (.pdf) – Interfacial landscapes and their virtues
• Flavorwire » 10 Anonymous Works of Fiction That Changed Society – The Autobiography of a Flea, and others
• Yale Alumni Magazine: Anonymous was a Woman – "Your favorite famous quotation: was it by Voltaire? Yogi Berra? Or some woman you’ve never heard of?"
• IanVisits » A trip with the archaeologists on the River Thames – Exploring Anglo-Saxon, Bronze Age and Mesolithic remains at low tide…
• The officially Comics Archetype Times Table – Robot x Platypus, Lincoln x Ninja
• Inuit’s risky mussel harvest under sea ice – On the sea bed, under the ice
• Hypothetical Planets & Moons of the Solar System – The lost moons of Mercury, Venus and Earth… and more

• A Way With Words | moo.com – Text-based ideas for business cards
• Daily Kos: UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All – "Persona management". Today's dose of Newspeak that should worry you
• Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists – Joe Lazarus –
• as3sfxr –

• Julian Dibbell, This article gives the outlines of a realist… – "I will defend a weird realism." Best. Philosophy-paper abstract. Ever.
• Artificial Empathy – Blog – BERG – 'Artificial Empathy', from @moleitau: (cc @firepile, @aeromenthe)
• The Word of Mouth KFC challenge – "why, it's like comparing iced tea and crystal meth"
• Is This the Real Thing? Coca-Cola’s Secret Formula Discovered by This American Life – Time to change the formula for OpenCola
• HiLobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution –

• Phosphate With a Twist – Magazine – The Atlantic –

• Report: Facebook Ad Performance Is Abysmal –
• Do Not Track could revolutionize online ad industry – USATODAY.com –
• The Search Operators – Humanised search

• Absurd Sign Generator Lets the Whole Family Prank Westboro Baptist Church –
• b3ta.com board –
• SSRN-’I've Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel Solove –
• 100 best first lines from novels –
• Juno Plus – Juno Plus Podcast 03 – Legowelt | Mixcloud – Re-think radio – RT @junoplus Just uploaded "Juno Plus Podcast 03 – Legowelt" to @mixcloud Tune in now!
• Daydreams Of The Wire Children: Fuck The Singularity – All kinds of excellent. 'Fuck the Singularity': #sciencefiction #futures (@PaulGrahamRaven)
• IanVisits – A map of London’s public toilets – Introducing… A map of London’s public toilets
• Joe Moran’s blog – New blog post on the Edgelands:

• The Loneliest Whale in the World – Culture – GOOD -Bit late to the game; I wrote a story about this a couple of years ago
• How online dating will make slaves of us all : SciencePunk -& I for one salute our OKCupid overlords
• Return to the Silence: Is theatre exposing the gutlessness of TV science?
• Magazero -Global zines, local delivery
• How one man tracked down Anonymous — and paid a heavy price -
• Many Endings – Ends of the world, year by year
• Serious Business: Anonymous Takes On Scientology (and Doesn’t Afraid of Anything) | Baltimore City Paper – Still the article I most wish I’d written
• Crazy Characters Help Indie Bands Outsmart Google | Magazine -
• WordPress › WP Emphasis « WordPress Plugins – Implementation of the New York Times script which allows users to highlight and link to specific body text
• Fairy tales from the lab. The Master of Sweet Dreams by Andrew Ivortow -
• Hashbang URIs – They’re not as bad as you think; really. – #! !
• FoldingStory | The Group Storytelling Game – exquisite corpses, v.Umpteen.0
• Thank You for Seven Years of Worldchanging -
• Gift a Stranger – Random acts of kindness, 2.0
• Launching Films – Film Distributors’ Association – UK release dates
• New Urban Mechanics -
• The Fox Is Black » Getting Lost – Links between architecture and cognitive sciences: getting lost in buildings

• The Food Lab: More Tips For Perfect Steaks | Serious Eats –

• Playtimes: A Century of Children’s Games and Rhymes –

• Is Economics a Discipline? – Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality with All Ten Tentacles –
• Economists and biology — Evolving Economics –
• When Economists Misunderstand Biology : Mike the Mad Biologist –
• What is economics good for? –

• The Promise and Perils of a World Filled With Touchscreens | Co.Design –
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• Wanted: A Typographic Map of the World | Co.Design –
• Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes | Video on TED.com –

• A Mesmerizing Music Video Made Using Google Earth | Co.Design –
• Points 0 –

• Artist Buys Landscape Paintings from Yard Sales, Inserts Monsters | Geekosystem – Artist Buys Landscape Paintings from Yard Sales, Inserts Monsters
• North Korean children’s guitar ensemble performs "Our Kindergarten Teacher" – Boing Boing – This is both a unicorn chaser and something that REQUIRES a unicorn chaser (via @ericwareheim)
• Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com – Today's #TED: Deb Roy on the birth of a word. Quite simply, astonishing:

• Duck Duck Go Privacy Policy –
• Google tracks you. We don’t. An illustrated guide. –
• BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – In Our Time, Free Will –
• BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – It Is Rocket Science, Episode 1 –
• Stupid EU cookie law will hand the advantage to the US, kill our startups stone dead – The problem of technically illiterate legislation, new EU cookie laws hurt the web: #eu #digital

• Juneau Projects: Formosa installation at the Shell Grotto – A cassette-driven exploration of EVP
• Hand Painted Oil Painting Portrait |Turn Photo To Oil Painting –
• The Speaker, Westminster | fancyapint? –
• HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first? – A Spanish pioneer of science fiction

• The Möbius Gear – O_o
• Hey Web Freeloaders: Your Lunch Is Not Free – In defence of tracking

• This is your captain screaming – "The front windscreen had disappeared and Tim, the pilot, was going out through it. He had been sucked out of his seatbelt and all I could see were his legs. I jumped over the control column and grabbed him round his waist to avoid him going out completely … His legs were jammed forward, disconnecting the autopilot, and the flight door was resting on the controls, sending the plane hurtling down at nearly 650kmh through some of the most congested skies in the world."
• Google loses autocomplete defamation case in Italy –
• The Works of Edward Jerningham (Open Library) –
• Edward Jerningham (1727 ca.-1812) –

• Zero Piraeus’ Activity – Society6 –
• The National Mall: The World’s First Location Aware Music Album | Co.Design –
• Media Monkey New Drive –
• MediaMonkey • View topic – Changing location from drive-letter to network-path. How? –
• How to Backup and Recover a MediaMonkey Library – Powered By Kayako eSupport –

• How To Assign A Fixed Drive Letter to Pogoplug in Windows: Pogoplugged –

• Lochinver: Scotland’s new foodie hotspot | Travel | The Guardian –
• simplepinboardbutton –
• Bat, Bean, Beam – A Weblog on Memory and Technology: What Do People Do All Day? – Love @annegalloway's analysis of the 1968 children's book "What Do People Do All Day?"