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Yesterday, we linked a short story on zombies who couldn’t remember who they were. This is a short on someone who can’t remember who he is. Memento Mori is Jonathan Nolan’s original short story that inspired his brother, Christopher, to film Memento.

Apparently, United Airline’s customer service is “tone deaf.” From Kottke, hypertext journalism sine qua non.

Before you bash their brains in, or shotgun them in the face, remember that zombies were once people too. A short story that inspired a full novel that will soon inspire a movie. Read the original here.

The prolific producer and rapper Akira The Don has been hard at work in recent days constructing another one of his famous mixtapes. ATD25 For The Ultimate Victory it is called (also, the silver anniversary mixtape), and like all good things it is free for your listening and downloading pleasure. You can buy it, if you feel the man deserves it (I assure you, he does), but don’t spend all your money just yet: his second full length LP is slated for an April release, it is called The Life Equation, and it will be indubitably awesome.

It’s time to play ‘Sheen, Beck, or Qaddafi?’ — Who said what crazy thing in February? “To demonstrate just what a struggle it is to distinguish between the mad ramblings of an entertainer, a despot, and a newsman another entertainer, we’ve put together this quiz.”

The man behind the incredible @MayorEmanuel stunt is revealed.

French street artist JR blankets LA with his work — but not just LA. He has put photographs of people on the houses, walls, trains, and roofs of countries all over the world. “In Kenya, for example, I used vinyl on the rooftops so that it would protect them from the rain. In each place, the people had to find their own interest in the project,” JR says in the video.

Libyan rebels prepare to defend Zawiya from Gadhafi offensive

Fictionaut interviews Ramon Collins, cartoonist and writer: “I honestly believe Micro & Flash stories are online fiction’s future. It’s the way people read. The phenomenon has something to do with the TV-20-second attention span and the decline of reading comprehension.”

The final hours of @MayorEmanuel. Winning an election, feeding Quaxelrod bread crumbs, double fisting beers, crowd surfing to the stage for a victory speech, contending with the sucking vortex of an alternate universe … all in a hard day’s work.