DeepLeep
DeepLeep is a word game sort of like Scrabble, but with a timer and without any competitors.  You have to make words from the letters that pop up, and you can only keep the letters you don't use for a certain amount of time before you're penalized.  It makes you think fast and immediately look for patterns, which is something I tend to do by default because I'm a dork. #entertainment

Somali pirates (1)
There's been a bunch of news lately about these Somali pirates who hijack ships and hold them for ransom, often making some good money when the shipping companies would rather pay up than be late. 
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Maybe I'm naive, but why aren't we literally blowing these guys out of the water?  They show up in the middle of the ocean with their rifles in their little boats, meanwhile we have navy SEALS, fighter jets, and friggin hovercraft.  Yes, hovercraft.  Since there's nowhere to hide in the open ocean and there's nothing nearby that could become collateral damage, why aren't we dropping bombs on these little jerks from 60,000 feet? #travel

Speech impediments on the radio (1)
It strikes me as odd that several people on the Chicago Public Radio show This American Life have speech impediments, including host Ira Glass, whose form of rhotacism (I think) make him subtly substitute "w" for "l", and Starlee Kine, whose lisp sounds like her tongue is simply too big for her mouth.  Also of note are the fact that Ira Glass has a very unusual cadence to his speech, almost as if he was once an alien who later learned to use inflection and accents, and the fact that many guests have a ridiculous mumbling problem.  As a radio show, there's no visual, just vocal, so I would expect it to sound better than a bunch of kids talking into a tape recorder.  Either way, what a cool show.  Currently my favorite podcast. #entertainment