• A breakdown of the ways in which different religious groups are pitching in to hurry along the arrival of the apocalypse. Via.
• Jim Emerson’s Opening Shots Project looks at some memorable opening shots from movies and asks you to submit your favorite. Via.
• If a dozen shrinks each interview the same patient, will they arrive at the same diagnosis? Or: Can a psychiatrist really tell what’s wrong with you?
• Deviant Desires offers a road map to sexual fetishes of all kinds.
• We New Yorker’s offer a courteous suck on this! to the residents of other cities, especially those dicks in Bucharest and Mumbai.
• Even the aliens have world cup fever, evidently wanting to get in on the soccer action, considering this footage out of Mexico.
• It was always thought the concept of infinity was too “messy” for the ancients, but they continue to humble us from beyond the grave. Archimedes dealt with infinitely large sets in a mathematical proof only recently discovered in his Palimpsest.