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Hot Links: The Death of Facts, $100 Cigarettes, Computer Sunset

All the key stories from the weekend that you need to read.

The biggest threat to Google and Facebook? Letting all of those incredible perks make their engineers turn lazy. Really.

Pretty: NYC artist Sandy Smith built a sunset out of a mozaic wall of old computers. It’s quite a lovely sight.

Best headline/sub-head combo in long while: ’Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012. In memoriam: After years of health problems, Facts has finally died.’

New Zealand is definitively not flavor country: $100 packs of smokes are on the horizon. It’s more likely to end up at $60, but still: holy hell.

Speaking of expensive, $60 lightbulbs are here. They’re supposed to last 20 years, but does that mean you take them from house to house?

South Sudan, the world’s newest country, is quickly being embroiled in an old civil war.

Apocalypse watch: explosions heard in California and Nevada were likely due to a meteor strike. Wowza.