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Canada

• Alberta tourists enraged over closed Anne of Green Gables House. Or, you know, you could just call ahead.

World

• A 14-year-old boy managed to impersonate a Chicago police officer and get sent out on patrol…for five hours.
• Obama’s web strategists have been hired to help fight the racist, idiotic British National Party.
• Think your job is bad? This guy had to dissolve 300 bodies for Mexican druglords.
• Psychopaths are better at getting parole than other inmates. Hmm. Reassuring.
• Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says something stupid. Again.
• People in Oklahoma are disturbed by inexplicable rumbling. Damn molepeople.
• A shapeshifting goat has been implicated in a Nigerian car theft. Yes, you read that correctly.

Media

• The race to save our digital heritage.
• I weep: Mad Magazine is going quarterly.

Science & Tech

• The NYT Magazine on female desire: everything. But it’s super complicated. Bonus: the featured researcher is from Queen’s!
• The US Air Force has a unmanned drone called the “Killer Zombie”. Romero unavailable for comment.
• Here’s one for you font junkies out there: the world’s smallest type.
• Why air travel won’t suck in 2093. Terrific. I’ll be dead.
• Could the Earth be turned into a giant hard drive?

Pop Culture

• Hobbits were real!
• Time travel is hard. Especially when your past self is a jerk.
• Hooters is losing its stranglehold on the Breastaurant market.
• The new John Carter of Mars movie sounds sweeeet.
• Sad about Dualla’s ignominous end on BSG? Well, fear not. Kandyse McClure is set to star in a remake of The Village of the Damned. 
• Jake Gyllenhaal is apparently uncrecognizable in the new Prince of Persia movie.