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• Daniel Kalder: “Right now it seems as if the leadership of the entire planet is coming up for election. At least that’s the impression I get from the news: there are changes of leadership everywhere, or at least in those places where the population is allowed to have a say in such matters. But when I look at the results, I can’t help thinking that the people coming into power are completely incapable of meeting the challenges of our times.”

• Daniel Terdiman: “For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant’s Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.”

• Esther Inglis-Arkell: 10 Science Concepts that Could Spawn Awesome Supervillains

• Fred Guteri: “NASA climate scientist James Hanson has warned of a ‘Venus effect,’ in which runaway warming turns Earth into an uninhabitable desert, with a surface temperature high enough to melt lead, sometime in the next few centuries.”

• Jim Goad: “I have trouble accepting the idea that Hitler was a vegetarian. He just didn’t seem that pushy.”

• Jim Romenesko: “Elmore Leonard liked Detroit Free Press reporter Tammy Battaglia’s piece about a roofer saved from electrocution, so he wrote her a nice letter. ‘I read your story the other day about the roofer narrowly dodging death and admire the way you wrote it,’ the crime novelist told the journalist. ‘What I admire the most is the sound of your writing, your effortless style.’”

• More Kalder: “I would therefore like to make a modest proposal, a test for those lacking documentation of their tribal lineage but who would nevertheless like to advance their academic or political careers by claiming to be a Native American. Can you rope a steer while on horseback and then cut out and eat its liver, like Herman [Lehmann]? Elizabeth Warren, are you ready?”

• Occupy Bilberberg 2012

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• From the great nation of Kenya: ”Rumor has it that Wini Nkinda is a member of illuminati. After Octopizo now Wini? Only time will tell whether this is a publicity stunt that is working so well to make our celebs famous.” h/t Jesse Walker

• High Desert Barbecue: “Written in a style that might be described as Edward Abbey meets Hunter S. Thompson, conspiracy, arson and ineptitude threaten the desert West, and only a misanthropic hermit, a subversive schoolteacher and an unemployed business writer stand in the way.” ht/ Lucy Steigerwald

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‎…almost everything that goes viral goes viral because someone looks like an idiot in it…so it turns out that the way to control the Internet is to make someone look like an idiot. People like to watch that more than anything — more than the greatest art, the greatest culture, MORE even than watching things on fire! — Jon Ronson

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