Have a poke around Lisa Cassidy's (sadly dormant) Built Dublin blog for the low-down on Dublin's more underappreciated architectural oddities. 

TIL: there is a 20th anniversary Friends-themed slot machine. This is a great Verge piece on casinos, skinner boxes, slot machines and the designing of addiction.

Tape Findings, an archive of one-of-a-kind found sounds.

- George Orwell's ode to springtime, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad.

Watch the first teaser trailer for Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic with Michael Fassbender playing the world's most famous jerkhole: