As part of YouTube’s Comedy Week, which kicks off on May 20, David Brent (of the original Office), wants to teach you to play the guitar. His new YouTube tutorial series begins on Monday, but you can get a taste of what his students are in for in this brief trailer … Discuss

These color travelogue films from 1920s London provide a fascinatingly clear glimpse at what the world looked like more than 80 years ago. The footage was shot by famed inventor and photographer William Frisse-Greene by using a then-revolutionary color film process known as Bicolour. It’s an amazing look at how things have changed—and not changed—in the last eight decades … Discuss

Google's put together something that only they could put together, and it's as amazing and vaguely terrifying as everything Google does. Utilizing millions (millions) of satellite photos They've put together animated GIFs that timelapse the past 30-ish years of our planet's changes. You can head over to Timelapse, put your cursor over any part of the globe, and see animation of how it's changed since 1984. It's not exactly cheery viewing, as most of the animation involves deforestation, drying rivers and retreating glaciers, but you also see the irrigation of deserts in the Middle East and just the onward march of humanity in general. One thing it does not chart is how much Google itself has changed the world, but perhaps that's a whole different project. Or perhaps this project serves as an example of it just fine by itself ... Discuss

This week, a lot of people read this profile of 25-year-old Cody Wilson in Forbes magazine and learned about his mission to distribute the plans for the world’s first 3D-printed gun online. Apparently, among those readers were officials from the State Department. Yesterday, federal officials contacted the self-described “radical libertarian and anarchist” and demanded that the design specs (which can be downloaded for use with a consumer-level 3D printer), be removed from the Internet. Evidentially, the federal government was a little concerned about a plastic firearm being distributed to anyone with an Internet connection, from a guy who wants the government to become “irrelevant.”

Wilson’s company, Defense Distributed said that in the two days since they put the plans online, they had been downloaded more than 100,000 times. In an interview with the site Betabeat, Wilson said that he immediately complied with the State Department’s demand, but added, "But this is a much bigger deal than guns. It has implications for the freedom of the web" … Discuss

According to a recent survey of more than 7,000 moms, almost half said they suffer from “Pinterest stress”, stemming from feelings of inadequacy about their own craftiness. The story from the Today Show has some pretty insightful quotes from moms, like Jenna Andersen (the woman behind the hilariously awesome blog Pinterest Fail): “Pinterest is largely a site of unrealized dreams.”

The survey found that 75 percent of moms say that the pressure they put on themselves—partly from browsing sites like Pinterest and comparing themselves to others—is actually worse than any judgment they get from peers. Parenting author and blogger Glennon Doyle Melton sums it up pretty well, “I don’t know of any study that ever said kids turn out better if they have rainbow colored birthday cakes. Why are we doing this to ourselves?” … Discuss