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• 25 years old enthusiast from Czech Republic tries his best at reassembling the very original versions of the classic Star Wars trilogy, without all those alterations and additional VFX. George Lucas thinks that modern versions of the Star Wars is exactly how he wanted to make them from the beginning, but fans are disagreeing.
• Engineering team at Instagram is sharing some technical details on how exactly Hyperlapse app works. It's all about smart zoom, gyro sensors and stabilization.
• The art of waking up every morning
• If you are born before 1985, you are the last generation to remember life without the Internet

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• Hands-on with Oculus' new devkit prototype. Codename - Crescent Bay, now with built-in headphones, more tracking sensors and something they call "new display technology". Also, here is a highly technical keynote by John Carmack on Oculus development, display technologies and action-to-photon time.
• Using smartwatches while driving is illegal in UK and in terms of punishment equals to <= £100. Same fine is used for drivers who are busy talking on mobile phones without handsfree.
• The dude updates iOS on his 16Gb iPhone 5S. The phone becomes 32Gb.
• Every fifth Londoner falls into a category of people who are employed but have no disposable income or savings. There is a word for those people - Endies.

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• Ever needed an argument on what exactly is wrong with Comic Sans? Here you go.
• The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ display. By now it seems that everyone is aware of the downscaling aspect of the 1080p display on the new "bigger than bigger" iPhone. Also, true 1px lines are over.
• If you ever decide to shout at the London Cabbie on the street, think about all the troubles he had to go through to get the official badge. Incredibly detailed story on the way to The Knowledge - learning every single geographic details within 6 miles radius of the Charing Cross.

A study by neurologists at University College London found that the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for spatial navigation, of a London cabby is significantly larger than those in the rest of the human population—a result of the intense memorization and route-finding undertaken while doing The Knowledge.

• A very rare book - story of the Sidereus Nuncius work by Galileo, discovered in 2005.

To mimic the process of creating a seventeenth-century book, a forger would have to cut “punches”—individual pieces of lead type—for every character and punctuation mark, in addition to carving woodblocks for ornamental capital letters. All these elements would have to match those used by the original publisher. Then, in arranging the type, the forger would have to insure that the spacing between letters precisely followed the original book—for dozens, if not hundreds, of pages. Who would do all that work, with countless opportunities for error, given that the product would likely fetch only a few hundred thousand dollars? A forged painting could sell for millions.

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• Scientific xkcd on the orbital speeds and how to shoot things to space
• Trailer to the upcoming Dreamfall Chapters narrative game, continuing the story of the original Dreamfall and The Longest Journey. They've had quite a bit of troubles to get this thing rolling, and now with the help of Kickstarter, the game is set to be released in November 2014. What makes it amazing? Think of quality interactive storytelling, with awesome voice acting.
• Why you should film your next feature in Finland - showreel by Finland's Film Commission

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• Article by one of the Russian expats currently living in San Francisco. In light of the recent events he is having personal identity crisis and leans towards calling himself "euro-slavic".

The population at large is, statistically speaking, not very bright. Many are deranged from overuse of alcohol or drugs. A big number are simply aging elderly rooted in USSR-centric mindset who never adjusted to the modern world. Most of them do not “work” in the sense we understand full-time employment here: they occupy placeholder positions sponsored by the government. Being dependent their whole life on government help, they are psychologically unable even to think government can do something wrong.

• Tales From The Lunar Module Guidance Computer - breakdown of the mistakes made in the software and hardware of the computer used to land first humans on the Moon. Will illustrations and commentaries of the authors of this computer.

Garman said, "go". Larson gave a thumbs-up. (He later said he was too scared to form words.) So Bales answered, "go", Flight Director Gene Krantz said "go", and capsule communicator Charlie Duke passed it up to the crew. At MIT, where we realized that something mysterious was draining time from the computer, we were barely breathing.

• If you are making Ruby on Rails apps, chances are that you are slightly disappointed with the built-in assets pipeline system called Sprockets. Luckily, here is a guide how to switch to Gulp.
• Timeline of the far future - captivating read if you are interested in things like "what will happen in 1 billion years according to the current knowledge of things".

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• Incredibly detailed and illustrated TheVerge's take on the subject of Virtual Reality. If you trust Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, VR just made it through the Trough of Disillusionment and on its way to the Slope of Enlightment. I think so too.
• Pics taken by monkey cannot be copyrighted, or so at least was the verdict of the US court this time.

Works produced by nature, animals or plants or purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings don’t count

• In addition to the largely known Stonehenge, there is also Woodhenge, placed just few miles and a couple of thousands years apart.
• Doctor Who season 8 is premiered last Saturday, and here is a nice recap by TheVerge. Contains minor spoilers, so in case you haven't seen the opening episode, it is time to do so.