Links we love today
Comics turned rappers, Tumblr's porn troubles, new releases from AnimalCollective and Best Coast and more
Here are the links we loved today:
Ten great films from Adam Yauch’s Oscilloscope Laboratories.
“Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say researchers.”
NPR is streaming Best Coast’s forthcoming album, The Only Place.
A compilation of all the fake video games hyped on Pete Holmes' You Made It Weird podcast.
Helpful YouTuber explains Russian soft drinks.
The A.V. Club interviews the one and only Steve Guttenberg.
Real-life Weeds: The New York Times explores the growing number of suburban pot farms.
Beautiful photos of shuttered movie theaters.
Road trip: Let’s visit this Texas karaoke joint that airs patrons music videos on local news.
Porn site Perfect 10 sues Tumblr for copyright infringement.
Only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice uncovered.
Check out these vintage Japanese illustrations of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales.
Let’s celebrate CultureMap contributor Dan Solomon’s birthday by watching this eight-year-old video of him doing stand-up! (We love you, Dan!)
And let’s also celebrate this hiccupping kitten.
Get ready, guys: Stand-ups Hannibal Buress, Ted Alexandro, Tom McCaffrey, Joe DeRosa, Rob Cantrell, Dan Curry and Hardcore Boris K have a hot new jam, “Headliner”:
These two new songs from Animal Collective, off their forthcoming 7” Honeycomb / Gotham, are as awesome as you hoped they’d be: