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1. Items from Moon and Source Code are up for auction at eBay for charity. Relatedly, Moon director Duncan Jones is David Bowie's son.

2. Bioshock-themed posters. Via.

3. "The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family."

No One Lives Forever

I was recently reminded of how much I liked No One Lives Forever:

Party in the CIA by Weird Al Yankovic

Video by Ghostbot for Weird Al's "Party in the CIA" (set to Miley Cyrus's song). Art Director Roman Laney posted some concept art for the project here.

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1. Game of Thrones Monopoly board.

2. Photo of a lightning strike above a power plant. Via.

3. "Long before Russia’s femme fatale Anna Chapman fueled countless blog posts and male fantasies, Israel had a female spy whose success in her profession’s dark arts made her one of history’s most notorious honey-traps."

*Buy board games at eBay.

Items from the CIA's Museum

Lots of neat spy tools in the Flickr gallery for the CIA's Museum. Pictured are the Enigma Machine, and items from The Man From UNCLE. Via.

*Buy The Man From UNCLE toys at eBay.

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1. Comment and win Day & Night.

2. "The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years." Via. (Did the Soviets did the same thing with ballet?)

3. I've never seen anything interesting in the Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark Twitter feed until Saturday, when it's full of replies to people asking for refunds. (I hope it all works out, I can't wait to see the designs.)

*Buy Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire at Amazon.

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1. Bill Simmons:

Here's a fun story for you: A few weeks after the Clippers fired Mike Dunleavy last winter, someone called me out of the blue asking for help getting their vacant GM job. I had never talked to this person before in my life. I have no idea how he obtained my number. But that didn't stop him from lobbying me for the next 15 minutes as I said things like, "You don't understand, I only do things like that for Daryl Morey." (Just kidding. I did say, "Sorry, I just don't do things like that." Which is true.) Even better, this person was employed by another NBA team at the time. Now, assuming I helped him get the job -- and by the way, that's my favorite part of the story, that anyone thought the notoriously oblivious Clippers could be swayed by an online columnist -- what would I get in return? You guessed it … scoops! Breaking news!

2. The murder of a Palestinian official in Dubai by assassins captured on camera has lead to zero arrests. Via.

3. Free Star Wars digital jigsaw puzzles.

*Buy Super Spy by Matt Kindt at Amazon.