by the Editors | Around the Scout office this morning, we were proud to learn that some of our favourite websites would go dark on January 18th to protest a remarkably stupid anti-internet law (SOPA), and we were happy to find out that the White House had categorically come out against it (they would have been nuts not to). We got stoked at the prospect of hot chocolate on a stick (sheer genius), and we wondered about the ethics of eating the flags of other countries (count us in for Italy). We were taken aback by Bilbo Baggin’s spider killing rage face (for the Shire!), and we dug the portrait photography of Jonathan Rosser (spooky pretty). We wondered how bad bacon soda would taste (probably awful), and for the first time in our lives, we actually considered biting a storm trooper on the head (“Look sir, cake!”). We liked the look of jewellery made from AK-47s (clever), and we read the hell out of Andrew Sullivan’s cover story on Obama’s re-election in Newsweek (done deal). We watched Johnny Depp read personal letters from Hunter S. Thompson (double awesome), and we thought about wrapping our camera lenses in burritos (that’s just weird). We wondered at the genius of a coffee weed pipe (for real), and we went foraging with a master chef (just for kicks).

And then we started working…