This Week in Awesome (1/5/13)

No wait, I really do have TWiA this week, honest... well, it's after midnight Sunday, but I say it still counts.

These illustrations of cities without lights are very cool. (The Daily What)

Do you have a "first-world problem"? Help is here.

This was bouncing around the Mrs.' facebook the other day, so you may have already seen it, but someone was kind enough to provide a link to a static page that got picked up on Universal Hub: one crucial difference between New York and Boston.

Who says blind people can't take photographs? (Laughing Squid via Photojojo)

And finally this week, your New Year's Eve could not have been worse than this disastrous live TV broadcast on a Los Angeles-area station. Keep in mind, this is just an edited version of a few of the, um, highlights? (Grantland)