Time’s Jessica Roy on Auto Sensory Meridian Responses: “The Internet Gives Me ‘Brain Orgasms’ and Maybe You Can Get Them Too.” She’s obviously a NextDraft reader.

+ “We picked movies for our employee favorites shelves more carefully than we picked our majors.” The Awl’s Erik Bryan on what Blockbuster meant.

+ Berkeley may move to ban smoking in single-family homes.

+ Why not cook your next dinner in a coffee maker?

+ And yes, at long last, I’ve thrown my hat into the ring and uploaded my first official Internet cat video: Introducing Meowdini.