I couldn’t believe they were rebooting so soon, but y’know, the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man actually looks pretty good!:

mitmproxy looks like a handy tool, and they picked a fun tutorial: Setting highscores on Apple’s GameCenter.

How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?. "Just as baffling as the Iowa corn ads — at least to the uninitiated — were some commercials Colbert produced taking the side of the owners during the recent N.B.A. lockout. These were also sponsored by Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but they were “made possible,” according to the voice-over, by Colbert Super PAC SHH Institute. Super PAC SHH (as in “hush”) is Colbert’s 501©(4). He has one of those too — an organization that can accept unlimited amounts of money from corporations without disclosing their names and can then give that money to a regular PAC, which would otherwise be required to report corporate donations. “What’s the difference between that and money laundering?” Colbert said to me delightedly."

This MRI from the study, Chronic Exercise Preserves Lean Muscle Mass in Masters Athletes, says everything you need to know about exercise:

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors. Another piece of Skynet comes online. Dad and Mike, you’ll dig this one. (thx david)

The Scottish accent gives Siri a wee bit of trouble:

A couple good posts on Google disillusionment: no longer loving Google, Inc. and against the wall.

Can’t believe how well this came out, this fellow created a font by taking an average of the fonts he had on his machine (not a straightforward process). The result is Avería:

Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic. Great piece on the joys of being online a bit less.

Alabama, wow. Listen and despair. But then listen to act 2. Unrelated, but very funny.

Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On. "One of the things that I think should be done is the infrastructure bill that Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Kerry proposed, which sets up an infrastructure bank which would be seeded with U. S. taxpayers' money, but it would be open to investors. Like, you and I could buy a $1,000 infrastructure bond, or the Chinese sovereign wealth fund, Saudi sovereign wealth fund, anybody could invest in it, and the returns on infrastructure are significant enough that in an uncertain stock market, I think you could get a lot of private capital."

Fantastic reflexes on display at the Australian Open… by the ball boy.