The perversions of Chuck Berry - VICE

Edward Snowden is in the running for a European human rights prize whose past winners include Nelson Mandela and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi - Reuters

Iggy Pop to play stoned caterpillar in upcoming TV show Once Upon A Time In Wonderland  - Cherry Bombed

Thailand’s cure for meth addiction? The leafy jungle stimulant, “kratom” - Global Post

California: 95-year-old war veteran marries boyfriend of 20 years - Pink News

Pig-manure fertilizer linked to human MRSA infections - Nature

It’s a miracle that Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits even got made - io9

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it dumped about 1,130 tons of tainted rainwater Monday into the Pacific Ocean after it accumulated at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant - Japan Times

Surviving Whole Foods - Huffington Post

Ear wax from whales keeps record of ocean contaminants - NPR

A Grand Theft Auto fan was hit with a brick, stabbed and robbed of the new computer game moments after queuing to buy it - Telegraph

10 great films considered failures in their time - Pop Matters

Ian Curtis’ lyrics and notebooks to be published in new book - Faber Social

The most depressing discovery about the brain, ever - AlterNet

AMC announced today that the final season of the Lionsgate series Mad Men will be expanded to 14 episodes and equally portioned with seven episodes airing in spring of 2014 (“The Beginning”) and the final seven episodes of this iconic series (“The End of an Era”) airing in the spring of 2015 - AMC TV

Professor Stephen Hawking, the scientist, has given his backing to the legalisation of assisted suicide for the terminally ill - Telegraph

Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit - Ars Technica

How Birds Got Their Wings: Fossil data show scaling of limbs altered as birds originated from dinosaurs - Science Daily

Redneck Socks - Neatorama

Below, Brainiac live in Oxford, Ohio, 1995 (entire set):