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Lazy Sunday: 6 April 2014

Good morrow, dear readers. Please enjoy these reading materials I have procured for your benefit.

To the surprise of absolutely no one who has ever been told “I’ll call you.”
Selfies: The dandy we deserve.
Heaven’s Gate designed some really ugly websites.
And directly after that, I offer you what’s wrong with Vice, a site I avoid unless someone sends me something. This could be more broadly titled “what’s wrong with people” but VICE is a good sample.
I’ve started taking the idea of scheduling really seriously, so some of these ideas may come in handy for time saving. You get so much more time to do stuff you love when you plan your ish.
Oooh, a lost pilot story! I love early days of aviation mishaps.
My friend Eliza is now writing for Cosmo, so assume anything hilarious coming out of there is her. Here, we’ve got some Game of Thrones sex tips for ya.
Billions of average people can together make a good decision. Should we all register for this?
Some thoughts on this week’s Fort Hood shootings.
A 25-year-old Jon Hamm on a dating game show.

Here are some things to read so that you’ll have something insightful and meaningful to take to brunch.

Girls who park in cars with boys aren’t really popular.
Turns out, you probably do know how to make meth after watching all that Breaking Bad. They have a real-life consulting organic chemist for that ish.
Here’s how to open a champagne bottle with a sword, you know, for the next time you need a mimosa while astride a horse.
The real question this article posits is “how would YOU better squander $100 million?”
Maybe you were wondering about Filipino seamen’s junk. Wonder no more. I can’t believe this is still a practice, in this, the 21st century.
Stop eating food.
This is seriously a business model I have considered and I’m so upset someone beat me to it.
Last week, I realized that some people probably confuse my enthusiasm for Southern culture for some kind of pathetic neo-Confederate sympathy, and that made me really sad. Turns out I’m not the only person who feels like that.
Alternate title: Some good tips for flying and several ways to be a complete and utter jerk (you are not very important, okay?).
I do love a good story of successful social climbing.

Here’s a quick round up of things to read for you on this, my favorite day of the week.

All who wander aren’t lost, and this new magazine takes specific aim at exact place by dedicating each issue to exploring a very small area. This time, it’s a street in Berlin.
Stealing koi is a thing now.
How to help make traffic less bad by positioning your car slightly differently.
Remember that you are lucky, not special, and that you should take pains to help those less fortunate.
A disco producer’s disappearance.
Here lies an illustrated history of fake dinosaurs, which is a lot longer than you might think possible.
You actually have no idea what you will do when bad things happen. This is a brave story about domestic violence and recovery in the New York Times.
This is patently insane. Did you remember this? I didn’t. How did I not know about people living in a biodome cult?
Pashto, the tongue of Afghanistan, has a specific word for the pride women feel that their lover is a good warrior. I learned about watan by reading this long article about the tradition of oral poetry by women.
Salvador Dali + Alice in Wonderland = ?