Link roundup

1. Surfers found a 10-foot-long great white shark on a beach in Australia and dragged him back into the water.

2. Mark Burnett is apparently trying to create two new talent shows: Dancing Behind Bars and Talent Behind Bars.

3. How games like Farmville take advantage of addictive behavior.

The show Intervention would be much better if it featured Ultraman

Today's installment of Slow Wave is an episode of Intervention featuring Ultraman and a monster that just can't seem to stop from destroying cities



You can read the entire comic here.

*Previously: Groovy opening credits for Ultraman tv show.

*Buy Ultraman toys at eBay.

Almost half of all cigarettes sold in the United States (44 percent) are consumed by people with mental illness.

"This is because so many people who have mental illnesses smoke (50 to 80 percent, compared with less than 20 percent of the general population) and because they smoke so many cigarettes a day -- often three packs." Link. Via.

(File this under "stats that are too good to check.")

NBA Player Caron Butler is addicted to chewing on straws

His wife, Andrea, told us that she is somewhat of an enabler; she'll stop off at McDonald's and pick up a handful of straws for her husband. Like, 60 straws. Daily. "And then if he goes on his own he gets some himself," she said. This, friends, is a full-fledged addiction.

Read on. His young daughter's now copying the habit.