Required Reading

• If you haven't yet, Petko's official site is totally worth perusing.  Some great pictures, her thoughts on school and music, and just a whole bunch of Petko awesomeness.  She's one of a kind.
• Tignor's thoughts on Dubai.
• Papa Radwanska should know: You can't control a ninja.
• An interesting discussion on rankings systems by Tignor and Tandon.  The Rally is one of my favorite new columns on Tennis.com.
• Another week, another chance to check in on Gauloises' Delpo-meter.
• I'm not ready to buy into this quite yet, but there's something to the argument.  Also that picture of Sam is gaaaaaaaaaah.
• Instead of the book, can I just have that second picture as a life-sized poster?
• Rafa dares lock horns with Keyser Soze.
• Good piece on Milos.  And Bobby Chintapalli's Q&A with Sherbatsky.  Upshot?  She's a normal.  Don't believe me?  Read her WTA Blog from Memphis.
• Bepa diplomatically tries Vegemite.
• This piece of writing is equal parts unintelligible and unintentionally hilarious.  The only excuse is that it must be a bad translation.  But something tells me it's not.
• Non-Required Reading: DudeBros lipdubbing Firework.  I'm kind of flabbergasted.  And impressed.
• Non-Required Reading: I am neither flabbergasted or impressed.  But I'm kind of mesmerized.
• Non-Required Reading: I haven't seen Splice, but this is the funniest thing I've read all year.
• Non-Required Reading: Blasphemy.