June 14, 2012: Afternoon
- Notes on the recent full-blown outbreak of UN Derangement Syndrome.
- U.S. now running a spy network of small air bases around Africa—overseen by Special Operations forces, not the CIA.
- Report on Spain's independent rock scene with sound clips and videos.
- Voyager I probe, launched in 1977, about to become the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
- Air travel in Nigeria "exists on the edge of catastrophe" and includes singing captains.
- Some athletic activities are sport, others are sports—a guide.
- The Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving plays pick-up basketball in full old-man make-up.
- "Muthuball"—Stanford undergraduate's analysis finds 13 positions on the floor in the NBA.
- Thanks to the internet's auditing capabilities, hype is dead, and the magazine industry will meet the music industry's fate.
- Round-up of ads made by director David Fincher.
- Game of Thrones creators admit that yes, that is President George W. Bush's head on a spike.
- Ten shorts films based on 10 short stories, including Franz Kafka’s “A Country Doctor.”
- Harvard's brain-freezer malfunction compared to Walt Whitman's brain being dropped.
- How to make beer ice cream.