1. Batkid rules San Francisco, and the results are adorable.
2. Here’s an NBA commercial featuring some insane hoop-shooting synchronization. And here’s the making-of documentary to go along with it.
3. Jean Claude Van Damme performs the world’s most epic split.
Ned Resnikoff is an urban policy analyst, researcher, writer, and editor. His byline has appeared in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Dissent, and The Nation. He writes the newsletter Public Comment, which can be found at publiccomment.blog.