Microsoft's Courier booklet

Authors@Google: Steven Pinker

That Mitchell and Webb Look: Proof of no God

Dancing bird

Taryn Simon photographs secret sites

Oingo Boingo - It's a Dead Man's Party

Excellent use of the Corpse Bride.

James Bond Squirrel - Mission Peanuts

Talk by Naomi Wolf - The End of America

Hitler Loses Faith in Reddit

This was the best one yet!

Origin of Stupidity

Did you know? 4.0

Patton Oswalt - Sky Cake

Obama the anti-christ

Obama is the anti-christ.

Where were you when the Death Star fell?

Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter cities

How can a struggling country break out of poverty if it's trapped in a system of bad rules? Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter cities," city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations. (Could Guantánamo Bay become the next Hong Kong?)

Totally cool idea, which could be employed in Africa, for instance.

The Pentagon loses $2.3T, the next day, 9/11, the world change, and everyone forgets $2.3T that went missing

Second Wind

Lipton Ice Tea commercial

Preparing for China's urban billion

By pursuing a more concentrated urbanization path guided by action to boost urban productivity, China's local and national policy leaders would minimize the pressures and maximize the economic benefits of urban expansion. A two-part report details the scale, pace, and global implications of urbanization at the sector and city levels.

Full report from McKinsey.

China’s consumption challenge

A panel of leading Chinese economists debates proposals to stoke private consumption in the world’s fastest-growing economy.

How China and the US will set the global climate agenda

The Brookings Institution’s Ken Lieberthal discusses the opportunities he sees for a China–US clean-energy partnership going into December’s climate change conference.

Cat perch

Ants: The Invisible Majority with Dr. Brian Fisher

The Electric Horizon: Shai Agassi