Funny Inhale perfluorobutane if you want a voice even deeper than sulphur hexafluoride offers Rob Beschizza
body modification Enjoy these photos of lips injected with filler to give them a pointy look Mark Frauenfelder
minimalism Everyone (No One?) should read this New York Times Magazine article about the commodification of nothingness Thom Dunn
nsa Ingenious Cold War keylogger the Russians used to bug Selectric typewriters in the US embassy David Pescovitz
Boing Boing Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow
tabloids Royal sex & drug scandal, the Queen & Michael Douglas dying, and Miley Cyrus's demonic possession, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Science A deep dive into how parasites hijack our behavior and how we evolved to resist them Cory Doctorow