AAAAaaaamanda Fucking Palmer made a new video, and it's awesome:

Also,

• Addenda to last week's The busy trap:
  • Quitting the paint factory by Mark Slouka. Essential essay, via Gina Trapani
  • "Killing time isn’t a sin — it’s a misnomer. We’ve framed the question entirely wrong. It’s not a matter of “killing” time, but of enjoying it." Amen.
• Dinner with cellphone-addict friends? Make a phone stack. via marco
• Ladies and gentlemen, the Winners of the Mi-Fi microscale LEGO building contest. via boingboing
• How we gave colors names, part1, part2. via kottke, who also notes a Wikipedia article on the blue/green distinction
• Soon, your breakfast in ten minutes through Amazon. Poached eggs, please. I Want It Today, via waxy
• Hövding Invisible Bicycle Helmet, wow. via DF
• RRRRRRRROLL_GIF and mrdiv, beautiful animated GIFs. via kottke. If you're still meh about animated GIFs, Anil Dash has a great article about them.
• San Diego Accidentally Set Off All Its Fourth Of July Fireworks at Once. Thus, BOOM.
• "Achilles had trouble adjusting to office life", glorious SMBC.