Weekly Notes: May 27, 2011

Want This:

• I wish I was still in school so I could buy this Ostrich nap pillow.

Check This Out:

• See just who controls Washington, and what they paid for the privilege
• Vinyl’s Big Comeback
• Better Life Index, i.e. yet more reason to move to Norway.
• Exit Plan: Where do exiled leaders flee?

Look at This:

• Holy fuck nature: Severe weather in the central US, Deadly tornadoes strike, the Before and After in Joplin MO, and imagine for a second that you were this curb. holy. fuck. shits.
• Not to be outdone, Grimsvotn, the grim volcano. Sorry, I had to.

Read This:

• 10 Things You Ought to Know
• 9 Words You’ve Used Today With Bizarre Criminal Origins
• The 7 Most Terrifyingly Huge Things in the History of Nature
• 6 Civil War Myths Everyone Believes (That Are Total B.S.)

Listen to This:

• The Radio Dept. – David
• Benoit Pioulard – Shouting Distance
• People for Audio – Black Memory
• Antony + Bryce Dessner – I Was Young When I Left Home

Watch This:

• The history of the crossover
• Charlie Chaplin vs. Inception (not quite as good as the Chaplin vs. M83 we posted before)

• How Scotland Joined Great Britain

• Jellyfish Lake, Palau