Kind of a weird day over here at the BirchTree world headquarters, so we’re just doing some of my favorite links of the week here. But fear not, a solid new Bite Size Tech is coming this afternoon, and some other really cool stuff coming down the pipe. Stay tuned!

Links of Note

• How Shrek went from the world’s biggest animated franchise to the interent’s creepiest meme (The Week)
• Game of Thrones is getting too dark and full of terrors (Vox)
• Instacast becomes just the 2nd podcast app for Apple Watch (Vemedio)
• “Host” by David Foster Wallace (The Atlantic)
• The Witcher 3 Downgrade Controversy Sucks (Kotaku)
• Just Smart Enough (Shawn Blanc)
• Bill Gates has a site where he recommends and reviews books. Who knew? (Bill Gates)