The Internet moves fast. Here are a few of our favorite links from the week that was:
Why the afterlife is box office poison [Wired]
Lauded Wainwright: Box set to honor musical patriarch [The Second Disc]
Hating the Band Except for That One Guy: Sebastian Bach [Love Hate Society]
Suburban Metal Dad: Wall of Fame [Addicted to Vinyl]
In praise of Missy Andersen [Cahl’s Juke Joint]
Facebook adds more relationship status options [Gizmodo]
My Dove, My Lamb [Ickmusic]
Physicists build world’s first anti-laser [Wired]
Top 40 Prince songs [Culture Brats]
House budget slashfest: NASCAR = OK. Elmo/women/mercuryless seafood = not OK. [Jeff Vrabel]
Must-hear TV: Prime-time theme songs that still rock [SomethingElse! Reviews]
D.I.Y. Dylan: Bob’s Archive box coming soon [The Second Disc]
Eight movies that inexplicably got cartoon spinoffs [Topless Robot]
Black Dub on Kimmel, plus free live track [Captains Dead]
Proof that movies are getting worse [Gizmodo]
Hear that? It’s the world’s prettiest 8-bit violin, playing you a sad song [Gizmodo]
I Am Number Four will have a sequel, and it will be written by children [Salon]
Books Without Borders: A victory for Amazon — and independent bookstores [TechCrunch]
Twin Peaks, The Twilight Zone, and Star Trek among shows coming to Netflix streaming [AV Club]
Undercover agent sneaks gun through airport’s full-body scanners five times [Gizmodo]
Every Number One single as a single track [Salon]
ET-X, the ET sequel we wish were real [Retroist]
Led Zeppelin, live in San Francisco, 4/27/69 [Captains Dead]
Remembering George Harrison [Addicted to Vinyl]
The Love Hate Society Podcast #1 [Love Hate Society]
Our culture of avarice [Salon]
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