This Week in Awesome (8/4/12)

One nice thing about August: restaurants tend to have very short wait times, if any, even on weekends.

Let's begin with a couple of lists meant to encourage discussion and debate: the 20 best TV opening scenes (The Atlantic) and a recent critics' poll of the 50 greatest movies (British Film Institute via The New Yorker).

Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis, on tour promoting The Campaign, take a moment for some recreational reading. (Vulture)

Another thing I learned from the internet: people shoot video footage on train rides, then team it with electronic music. You can trip out to this for as briefly or as long as you feel like. (Also, I highly recommend checking out the Chemical Brothers song referenced in the comments.) (io9)

And finally this week, the most original and clever way I have seen to circumvent NBC's restrictions on the use of Olympic footage by other media outlets, courtesy of... The Wall Street Journal? (The Daily What)