The Moral Crusade Against Foodies – Magazine – The Atlantic. “…no small perversion of language is needed to spin heroism out of an evening spent in a chair.”

YouTube – How To Irrigate Your Nasal Passages.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows — hiybbprqag. This one is double-tricky. Hiybbprqag was one of the nonsensical words Google used in their efforts to catch Bing copying their search results (story here).

YouTube – Salomon Freeski TV S4 E16 Wave Skiing 2.0: JAWS.

For some reason the poles really crack me up.

Weight of the world: Change in the world’s BMI since 1980 | The Washington Post. What the hell, fat Australians? Oceania is a remorseless eating machine.

On the Street – The Morning News. Sartorialist eat your heart out.

Paul Haggis Vs. the Church of Scientology : The New Yorker. Long and interesting/sad. I wish comments were allowed on the article, it would be interesting to read some back and forth between supporters/detractors.

2 Reporters Saw Egypt Secret Police’s Methods – NYTimes.com.

When Irish Eyes Are Crying | Business | Vanity Fair.

How To Do a Graffiti Masterpiece on Vimeo

wronging rights: Ask a Tunisian.

Ian Bogost – Cowclickification. Great stuff.

ABC News – Brisbane floods: before and after.

The Toylet: Sega launches video games controlled by mens URINE in Tokyo | Mail Online. (ecs) “Dude, why are you drinking so much water?”

Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena | Fast Company.

Francesca Thomas Janssen – Bespoke. Best dressed competition for 2011 already has its winner. So rad but she’s all “Looking awesome, no biggie, I always look awesome…”

A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell.

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com).

Citizen Kubrick | Film | The Guardian. (tp)

Feature: Allen Iverson: Fallen Star – Philadelphia Magazine – phillymag.com.

1980?s OLD SCHOOL BMX RADNESS | FREESTYLE FLYIN’ & STREET STYLIN’ « The Selvedge Yard. (dh)

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #2: Bret Michaels, “What I Got” – New York Music – Sound of the City. I don’t understand how this isn’t #1. Also, is that comic sans as the font for that whole-back tattoo?

The Spider-Man Musical Needs to Call It Quits. Mostly for tp.

What I Learned from My Father, the Grifter | Men’s Journal.

Map of Metal. (ab) Yep, best link of the week. I started metal-nerding out about the placement of certain genres (Viking metal should be a border town near NWOBHM!) which I think is a testament to how awesome it is.

The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ. Interesting stuff. I love how nobody even pretends that they’re not building skinner boxes anymore.

Print – Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet – Esquire.

Paris Review – Tough Guys Don’t Dance, Alex Gilvarry.

Crusaders in the underworld: The LAPD takes on organized crime – latimes.com. (tp)

What it’s like to have sex with someone with Asperger’s | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist.