Paintballing with Hezbollah. "We figured they’d cheat; they were Hezbollah, after all. But none of us—a team of four Western journalists—thought we’d be dodging military-grade flash bangs when we initiated this “friendly” paintball match. The battle takes place underground in a grungy, bunker-like basement underneath a Beirut strip mall. When the grenades go off it’s like being caught out in a ferocious thunderstorm: blinding flashes of hot white light, blasts of sound that reverberate deep inside my ears."

Andrew Dickey, Black Bike Vol. 1. Great street trials video. If you like the Danny MacAskill stuff, you’ll dig this. Some vertigo-inducing moments.

Screenshots of Despair. For example:

Love this: Girls First Ski Jump:

The Composites: “Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters”

Mike Daisey Is a Liar, and So Am I. "The thing is, that these lies, these distortions, these fabrications, these untruths don’t make for a better story. They make for an easier one, a story with fewer thorns to swallow on the way down, a less complicated story."

New trailer for Prometheus, can’t wait:

So here’s the US trailer for The Raid, which hype suggests is the best action movie to come down the pike in a very long time. It’s always hard to tell with trailers, but no doubt this is a fantastic fight scene:

Colorblindness-vs-Camouflage is this really cool quiz where you try to find camouflaged animals in photos. Some are incredibly hard. I got them all, but I stared at some of those photos for what felt like forever. (thx david)

Red Hong’s No-Utensil Drawing Skills. Cool.

The Wrath of Putin. "At the age of 34, one of Russia’s richest men realized that business could no longer be just a game. He now understood that capitalism could make people not only rich and happy but also poor and powerless. Khodorkovsky swore off his absolute faith in wealth just as he had sworn off his absolute faith in Communism."

Unpacking Kony 2012. Goes beyond specifics of Kony 2102 and thinks about the implications of social media advocacy.