1. Johannes Mehserle wrote a public letter of apology. TNC (and I) would rather not have to worry about the police.
2. World War 2: Worst. War. Ever. (Via @MattYglesias)
3. A solar charger that doesn’t suck.
4. Double Rainbow Guy interviewed by Fast Company, of all things. Videogum has the man-boob-free highlights: “I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Last night I went to an Indian sweat and I prayed really hard about this. When I shot the video, I was not high at all, I was not having sex, and I was not hiking, as a lot of people assume. This is my land that I bought in 1988. Wait, what was the question?”

Turns out Kill Hannah is opening for the Smashing Pumpkins tonight on the “Bands I should have seen in 1996 tour.” Here’s “Kennedy.”

Updated: Apparently that AIDS breakthrough isn’t a cure after all.

More potentially-related posts:

1. Linkwad and an update.
2. Linkwad and an update.
3. Linkwad.