This story has gotten a lot of attention over the past couple days, so odds are many of you have already read it. But it’s worth sharing, if only because it proves what we learned in Finding Nemo: all drains lead to the sea.
Octopus slips out of aquarium tank, crawls across floor, escapes down pipe to ocean
Om Malik writes about how our relationship with photography, and the meaning of the photos we are taking more often than ever, is changing.
In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing
I read this article before spring break, and I couldn’t help but think about it as I stood on the Alabama shore last week. It’s a little math-y, but don’t let that deter you from reading. Cartographer Andy Woodruff shares his maps that show what is directly across the world from you when you look out from the shore. Some of these will blow your mind, as the results are not what you would expect.
Speaking of spring break, original MTV VJ Alan Hunter shares his memories of the channel’s first broadcast from spring break down south.
But those frat boys are chanting, and I couldn’t understand what the chant was. “Hunter is da-da-da-da! Hunter is something something!” I got up close to one of them, and I was kind of chanting with them, not knowing what I’m chanting—and I realize they’re saying, “Hunter’s got a woody!”
MTV’s First Spring Break VJ Remembers What Spring Break Was Like Before Camera Phones
Following the death of Gary Shandling, Ian Crouch broke down all the meanings hidden in a picture taken of Shandling, David Letterman, and Jay Leno on stage with Johnny Carson in 1988.
A Garry Shandling Photograph That Closes the Book on a Late-Night Era
I don’t know if it’s a milestone really worth commemorating, but we just passed the 30th anniversary of the first “Van Hagar” album, 5150. It was kind of a big deal at the time, and I think I listened to it about 8 million times over the following summer.
Sammy takes us back to those heady days.
Van Halen’s ‘5150’: Sammy Hagar Looks Back
A quick look back to college basketball, and something my alma mater can be proud of, in stark contrast to at least two of the schools that advanced to the Final Four.
How The Kansas Jayhawks Can Help Stop the Madness
Finally, pretty much everything about North Korea is fascinating. So devote some time to reading through and viewing this accounting of Erick Tseng’s visit to the most closed-off country in the world last fall.