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• This Summer’s Sexiest Images From Saturn – Wow. Amazing images from Cassini.

• Pope merchandise – "The pope is visiting the UK soon, and the merchandise is already on sale, but it's rubbish. This week's challenge is to show the Vatican what they should be selling to mark the occasion. God will be delighted." (via @bengoldacre)
• The Creativity Crisis – "The age-old belief that the arts have a special claim to creativity is unfounded." It's always bugged me when people refer to 'the creatives' when talking about designers or artists. This is why! But back to the article… it's interesting that you can "teach" or at least encourage creativity.

• The origins of abc – "We will begin where civilisation began, meander through the Middle Ages, race through the Renaissance, and in doing so discover where our alphabet originated, how and why it evolved, and why, for example, an A looks, well, like an A."
• Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected – This is brilliant. "A polar bear display for the zoo. Free towels at public swimming pools. A “drug-free Parliament by 2020.” Iceland’s Best Party, founded in December by a comedian, Jon Gnarr, to satirize his country’s political system, ran a campaign that was one big joke. Or was it?"

• Urbanized – After Helvetica and Objectified, Gary Hustwit's next documentary is about the design of cities. "Urbanized looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design, featuring some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers." Can't wait.
• 8-Bit Cities – This is awesome: maps of cities in the style of 1980's video games.
• iPhone 4 – Case Program – I've not had any reception problems with mine but I'm not one to pass up free stuff…

• MacPaint and QuickDraw source code – This is awesome: the original source code to two of the most important pieces of software from the 1980's.
• If I have two children, and one is a boy, what are the odds that – Where common sense makes no sense. Sometimes. Probably.
• June 23, 1912: Computer Pioneer Alan Turing Born – "He’s also a genuinely interesting figure, albeit a tragic one. An eccentric who liked to bicycle while wearing a gas mask and who occasionally wore pajama tops underneath suit jackets, he was also a prodigious and eclectic genius."

• June 22, 1783: Icelandic Volcano Disrupts Europe’s Economy – It's not just 2010 where this was a problem…
• WWDC – The Acceleration – "But at one point everything exploded and there was no way to keep up with all the new API:s and all the new things Java was attempting to do. I feel that we’re approaching that point with iOS (formerly known as the iPhone OS)." As someone who does this in my spare time, this is certainly something that I'm feeling right now!
• I’m Comic Sans, Asshole – Your favourite font responds to criticism…