Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us.

Remember Anthony Weiner? He is the US politician who got in trouble for sending around pictures of his weiner, and allegedly he used the brilliant pseudonym ‘Carlos Danger’. Now you can get your Carlos Danger sexting name, too.

mars colonyThese are some of the plausible places where we’ll build new human colonies in space. Mars! Asteroids! Jupiter’s moon! Floating cities!

George RR Martin talks to the good folk from i09 at Comic-Con. Spoilers for A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons.

Bindi Irwin has some ideas about contraception and saving the world and stuff.

Some English people did not heed Bindi’s advice and have produced a tiny person who I am sure we’re all sick of hearing about. But here are some semi-interesting facts about that tiny person. For instance, it is basically a vampire.

This is a really charming blog post about cats, inspired by some pseudo-philosophical book also about cats.

Indeed, there will always be a place for great bookstores.

Are you a Facebook stalker? This handy guide will help you find out.

Shout out to all the teachers, this is what you can say every time someone asks how much money you make. (I bet those people are also Facebook stalkers.)

Do you ever feel like companies are trying to trick you when you sign up for things or fill out forms? They are.

Detroit has no money but it seems to be doing well. Good job, humans!