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1950s Huffy Radiobike: All I want for Christmas. Even though I can’t ride a bike. Note the tube amp.

Alternative “Heroes”: Reject cover shots, by Masayoshi Sukita, via retronaut.

Whales can adjust their hearing: Russian scientists present evidence that some whales can dynamically recalibrate the responsive range of their sense of hearing.

Compelling case for road pricing: According to a new report by the institute for fiscal studies, the UK requires a radical overhaul of road taxing to sustain revenues.

How to make XCode’s UI work for you (maybe): Wait a minute… XCode 4 has tabs?

Hackers Documentary: Set around the Hackers Conference of 1984. Contains prototype RMS.

Can birds fly into a headwind faster than their own maximum speed?: An intriguing suggestion. I’ve long admired the eider duck’s specialized adaption to a brutal climate.

The Bitch, the Stud and the Prawn: “It was a film called Crust. It told the story of a pub landlord who finds a giant seven foot mutant shrimp on a beach. The landlord then decides to teach the shrimp to box – and believes this will make his fortune.“

Creating retain cycles by misusing assertions: The documentation does state it, but it’s always worth remembering that NSAssert is only for use inside Objective-C methods.

L’Inconnue de la Seine: The death mask of this unidentified Parisian teenage suicide became a popular early-20th century objet d’art, eventually the model for the face of the standard CPR training mannequin.