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I wish I could think of something uplifting or witty to say by now, but I don’t. I’m sure that day will come soon, but today I’m just … tired. Hopefully these links will brighten your day a little.

• Meet Armando Villarreal, the man behind college football’s coolest helmets. – via @theathletichq
• Choose your decade and channel-surf the past on virtual TV sets. – via Laura Olin, who has a fantastic newsletter
• Allegedly, you can now scrub your personal information from Google searches. Here’s how to do it.
• JSON Crack is a free, open-source data visualization app capable of transforming JSON (and several other structured formats) into interactive graphs. – via @sung.kim.mw
• “1500+ free HTML templates for websites, landing pages, blogs, portfolios, ecommerce and admin dashboards” – via @devluc
• Great news for people who love bad news: This year won’t just be the hottest on record — it could be the first to surpass the 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold laid out in the Paris climate accord. – via @scientific_american
• “Vanity Fair hits it on the nail.” via @deirdre.assenza
• Related: “Unfriendly reminder that good people don’t support rapists.” – via @iamayortrightkay
• Apropos of nothing: It’s nearly impossible to be a depressed ball of rage-filled anxiety while listening to Clair de lune. – via @gatordavid
• Please tell me Taylor is working on a “The White House” version of “The Black Dog”. And if she’s not, maybe Weird Al can get on it. I hope it’s shitty / in the White House… – via @gatordavid

• Four agencies that specialize in Internet marketing — 10e20, Search and Social, Infinitenine, and Brent Csutoras Inc. — are joining forces in a roll-up to form BlueGlass Interactive.
• Why, yes, I do very much want a lightsaber.
• “It’s sort of nonsensical for a twice-divorced single mother of two to be using this line as seduction.” (a classic from @anildash)
• Why do foreign commercials always seem so much better than ours?
• Must read: Seven Reasons I’m Glad I’m an SEC Fan After Conference Expansion
• “Is there a large mammal standing on your phone right now, such as a mountain goat or cheetah?”
• No Mouse Is Safe: Cat Gets World’s First Bionic Paws
• The preview video of the new EA Sports NCAA 11 looks amazicredible.
• I really don’t know what to say about phoneballs.com.

• General Stuff
  • President Obama was recently interviewed about his policies regarding education by a very good reporter. He loves mangoes.
  • Anil writes about another good reason to like the Obama administration.
  • It’s been more than four months since Merlin has posted a new 5ive. Where could he be?!
  • A new study suggests that the amount of sleep you need may be written in your genes.
  • Poor Jessica: “Saying your drinking was offending the Dallas Cowboys is like saying your anti-semitism was bothering the other guys in the SS.”
  • But what are you going to do with one million giraffes?
  • I love baby seals as much as the next guy, but I don’t think I could ever get tired of watching great white sharks eat them in high-def and slow-motion.
  • “Until the early 20th century, holding a mortgage came with a stigma. You were a debtor, and chronic indebtedness was a problem to be avoided like too much drinking or gambling. … During the wild late 1990s and the first years of the new century, the dream of home ownership turned hallucinogenic.”
• Gator Stuff
  • Sad news: Gator receiver Paul Wilson’s career has come to an abrupt end.
  • You gotta see these Tim Tebow parody SI covers. (See also: the greatest photo of Tebow ever.)
• Techie Stuff
  • This week I’m probably going to install MAMP.
  • Got stripes?
  • Digging into WordPress gives us a list of great plugins for any site.