Happy birthday Frans! I think this is actually a record for me, in offering my best wishes on his actual birthday for the third year in a row. If I keep this up, I will eventually stop automatically typing "belated" in the middle of there, but old habits die hard. Anyway, happy birthday Frans, and as always, a thank you for keeping the engine room from blowing up.

Blown-Up Links:	Thanks Ant and Acleacius.
Play:	Tightrope Theatre. Zombo Gems. Boomerang Chang.
Stories:	Charlie Hebdo Editor Made Provocation His Mission. 'Archer' Is The New Black: The plotline you won't see this season. How Heroin Took Hold of Laramie, Wyoming. Thanks nin via Digg.
Science:	The 100 billion frames per second camera that can image light itself . Microbe found in grassy field contains powerful antibiotic. Thanks Slashdot.
Images:	Gallery- The weird, wacky, and wonderful world of CES. Thousands in France gather to a send message after Charlie Hebdo attack.
Media:	Conan's Statement On The Charlie Hebdo Tragedy. Speedrunner Proposes To Girlfriend Mid-Game. Have to make every second count. Monster Trucking - Playthrough (NSFW).
The Funnies:	The Fireworks Simulator - Meme Unleashed. Thanks reddit.