This fan-made credit sequence for the new Tintin movie got its creator, animator James Curran, a job directly from Spielberg on a future film. Apparently there are references to all 24 Tintin books in the piece. HD on vimeo. Who’s Tintin?

• Alec Baldwin launched a new podcast called Here’s the Thing on WNYC. While I could listen to him talk about almost anything, the show is promising—the first episode is a chat with Michael Douglas.
• A Times article on the terrible story of dozens of wild animals on the loose in Zanesville, Ohio last week. No one was injured, but local police had to kill all the animals.
• Eric Clapton’s guitar-work isolated from the Beatles song While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It’s impressive and charmingly rough.

The Midwestern United States at night with Aurora Borealis is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 29 crew member on the International Space Station. [...] Part of the International Space Station appears across the top of the image. This photograph highlights the Chicago, IL, metropolitan area as the largest cluster of lights at center, next to the dark patch of Lake Michigan. The other largest metropolitan areas include St. Louis, MO (lower right), Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN (left) and the Omaha–Council Bluffs region on the Nebraska–Iowa border (lower left).

• The Tribune on the latest in the ongoing saga to save the Uptown Theatre. The short of it: no money and no change yet, but more talk is something, right?
• A concept car from 1938: the Phantom Corsair. More info from wikipedia. I still like it, even after JV said it looks like it belonged to Batman Hitler.
• Dependable ol’ Wilco did a nice set at NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series last weekend.

• An amazing WWII story about Niels Bohr having to dissolve gold Nobel prize medals. Science wins out in the end.
• Studs Terkel talks about radio, his own life and his work process in this interview from 2001. Text and audio available.
• The Scottish Verdict: in the courts of Scotland a criminal verdict can go one of three ways: “proven”, “not proven”, or “not guilty”. Why is a matter of some interesting history.