• Butcher breaks out of own freezer using black pudding (The Register) For those who don’t grok English food, he used a sausage.
• Website? Century-old French newspaper seeks new Linotype instead – Art & Culture (The Jakarta Post) Seriously old school. I saw it done in the summer of 1981 by perhaps its last practitioner in Portland, Oregon.
• Centrist Think Tanks Won’t Save Our Cities (In These Times) Centrists have never saved anything but themselves.
• Legal marijuana cuts violence says US study, as medical-use laws see crime fall | World news (The Guardian) We learned this lesson during the prohibition of alcohol.
• CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work (Daily Beast) Technology convention successfully simulates Bunco convention, film at eleven.
• Crypto fiat coin confusion (FT Alphaville) Why the block chain won’t ever be used by central banks. Short version, because they already have solutions to those problems that they have been using for years that work better.
• New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas (Eco Watch) Well, duh.

I’ve not seen Game of Thrones, but even I get this: