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Breaking Bad: Vince Gilligan shares 5 alternate endings - The Wrap

Unearthly Delights: Lydia Lunch’s favourite albums - The Quietus

Syd Barrett: Under Review, a full documentary about Pink Floyd’s brilliant and troubled founder - Open Culture

Anonymous and Scientology are at war again—on Craigslist - The Daily Dot

Anatomy of a nightly struggle (with cats) - The Poke

Research disrupted as lawmakers spar over funding - Nature

Deadly lake turns animals into statues - New Scientist

Curiously vampiric teeth of untreated syphilis sufferers - Boing Boing

David Bowie’s flatmate recalls the heady days of the Beckenham Arts Lab and a recent reunion - The Art Desk

Ancient kingdom discovered beneath mound in Iraq - Discovery

Man murders wife, kills himself hours after trying out for Family Feud - Gawker

Krugman: The 1 percent has created a monster - Salon

Australia had a government shutdown once. In the end, the queen fired everyone in Parliament. - Washington Post

Knight’s daughter heals everyone after the joust with fairy kisses - reddit

Signs of oxygen in 3-billion-year-old soil: Which means photosynthesis is at least that old - Ars Technica

Jonathan Wilson: New video premiere - MOJO

Report: Cheaper, purer illegal substances suggest global war on drugs is failing - CNN

‘Sex jihad’ almost certainly a hoax - Raw Story

US shutdown has other nations confused and concerned - BBC News

John Lennon’s early childhood home to go up for auction - NME

David Bowie’s top 100 books - Open Book Toronto

Rewired nerves control robotic leg: Video shows man walking and kicking a football with direct signals from brain - Nature

Below, the trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: