I know this highlighted quotes thing is a bit annoying, but I'm too tired to offer anything which could reasonably described as coherent commentary...

... plus my feet are throbbing from my new shoes or as I like to think of them, the medieval torture implements I'm choosing to put on my feet on a daily basis like a vest of thorns.

Zooey Deschanel's Cotton Commercial!

In which she does an advert for the US cotton industry whilst apparently simultaneously parodying Katie Perry's image. Download the song here.

AE12: Hairy Facades

"Today the use of thatching is departing from its traditional form, being used as roofs but also walls, what I'm calling hairy facades."

How to Throw a Beach Party (In Your Apartment)

"Can't wait for summer?"

Healy Mapping Mission

"As rising temperatures melt the polar ice cap, five countries race to map their claims to a new energy frontier. The stakes are huge. Nearly a quarter of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas may lie beneath the seabed of this vast wilderness."

When *Bloggers* Attack!

"Mike Morgan, the creator of the gripe site www.GoldmanSachs666.com (clever Number of the Beast usage there, Mike) did what many bloggers often talk about but rarely do; he went on the legal offensive."

“Let the wild rumpus start!”

"President Obama reading Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are to a group of children"

Open letter to all film and TV directors

"STOP SHAKING THE FUCKING CAMERA AROUND. FOR FUCK'S SAKE."

Waldeath

"I have seen hell, and it sells processed cheese and lawnmowers. And it is next to a motorway, and has a carpark the size of the moon. And before you know it, it will suck you in and you will walk out with a debt and a bag and a confused look on your face."

The Daily Mail: Campaigning both For AND Against the HPV Vaccine in Different Countries Simultaneously

"Are they insane?!"

They Really Wanted a Photo

"hree weeks ago, in Yemen, somewhere between Aden and Zabid and near Taiz — it could have been shortly after Lahj —"

The Most Precious Gift I've Been Given

"Only a few times in this space have I touched on my upbringing and family life as a child..."

Interview: Janeane Garofalo on 24, Henry Rollins,...

"I was offered a good job. At first I passed on it because of the right-wing nature of a couple of the writers. But then I realized A) I'm not being me, B) I was unemployed, and C) a very good friend of mine is on it, Mary Lynn Rajskub. And she loves it there."

Paul Brown on the Beatles' continuing online absence

"Frustratingly for digital music fans, the Beatles and a handful of other high-profile acts continue to occupy a small but significant gap in the online catalogues of the likes of iTunes and Spotify, preventing listeners from downloading and streaming some of the world's biggest artists."

*Google News* Scoops Next Steps in Google Search

"The age of the algorithm is over."

Clay Shirky on the failure of #amazonfail

"This isn’t because I am a generally stupid person; it was because I was, on Sunday, a specifically stupid person."

Doctor Who's Comedy Vehicle

" It didn't feel like a special, nor did it feel like a regular episode. Forever trapped in the some weird TV hinterland - like a daytime tv programme you can only glimpse through a convoluted series of angled mirrors."