1 If Google were a state-owned company in Ukraine (h/t Evgeny Morozov)
2 Richard Beck on Philip Hoare's "The Whale": "The real setting is Hoare's own head, which turns out to be a strange, lovely, fascinating place"
3 Insert your own "blonde bombshell" joke here
4 Our world may be a giant hologram (h/t Kottke)
5 The forehead texter: keep up a conversation while texting someone else