• Up and away. The girl who held on to life for chance to see a movie.

• The Worst, a magazine to celebrate the worst in life. I *heart* the feature on the worst toys esp. the dogs on page 114.

• You have to teach the penguin how to fly. Play at least 5 rounds, promise? It doesn’t make sense till then…

• Ames’ Window. Extraordinary optical illusion.

• Chiddy Bang having a whole load of fun with Passion Pit’s super-amazing ‘Better Things’

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• Onore no Shinzuru Michi wo Yuke’s opening movie. Beautiful.

• So very difficult to look away.

• West bank shadows.

• Just circle the cat already, ok?

• Jerusalem. Newspaper sends journalists home, asks city’s authors and poets to write the news instead.

• Fallen princesses: how things could have turned out for Disney’s female money spinners. Love, love, love the Jasmine one.

• The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English. ‘Waft’ Srsly?!

• Oof photographs.

• The Death of Mario: an Akihabara-based art exhibition – runs till the 26th of the month, you Tokyo-ites.

• When videogames truly challenge us. If you’re not reading this series already (and you are, of course), then start now.

• Birdy Nam Nam. Treacle French Electro plus 80′s Saturday morning cartoon visuals. Mmm.

• Dance Dance Revolution. This is totally what happens every time you get on the tube, right?

• Mean Girls bloopers. This film is totally one of my desert island DVDs, FYI.

• Branded babies.

• A very honest and personal write up of a recent Street Fighter IV tournament from one of its participants. Worth the long haul through it.

• Japanese Magazine covers 1910-1940. Oh my. These are just incredible.

• Penguin Classics: Albums. Where next? Penguin Classics: Social Networking Sites?