As we slowly drift into August, wondering where the summer has gone and what it still has in store for us, it's important to take some time out and remember to be present in the moment. The moment when you sit down at your computer with a cup of coffee and dig into some Internet pieces about film and technology! This week we have Michel Gondry with behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Eternal Sunshine, social robots, the down and dirty history of TMZ, and so much more. (Note: we would like to thank Tribeca pal Jason Hirschhorn and his absolutely must-read Media ReDEFined daily newsletter for no fewer than 7 of these links - if you're not already a subscriber, you should be! Sign up here to stay in the know.)

• "Do I think that the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes filmmakers made a conscious decision to minimize and exclude female characters? Quite the contrary: I think they didn’t even realize they were doing it." Kyle Buchanan wrote for Vulture about what even our best blockbusters are still getting wrong about women. 
   
• Michel Gondry spoke with Marlow Stern for The Daily Beast this week about Mood Indigo, Kanye West, and some behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
   
• "The Down And Dirty History Of TMZ"
   
• Focusing specifically on I, Origins and Lucy, Lily Rothman wrote for Time about why movies so often use science to spark a discussion of spirituality.
   
• Speaking of, did you read our interview with I, Origins writer and director Mike Cahill? If no: why not? Get to it!
   
• Want to know how to invent a person online? Hmm. Why? That seems like a suspicious goal! If you promise to only use it for good, please feel free to read Curtis Wallen's essay on how to do it.
   
• Lindsey Weber, if she is to be trusted, makes the case for the Kim Kardashian game that all of your adult friends have been playing for some reason, over at Vulture. 

"Too Tired to Flirt: The Silvia Killingsworth Story as told by the Kim Kardashian Game"

— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) July 23, 2014

• "The secret history of Brazilian resistance cinema."
   
• "'It’s anthropomorphic, but not trying to push too hard,' Breazeal says. 'It’s humanized and relatable while not trying to replace people.'" Meet the social robot who, fingers crossed, won't replace people.
   
• You can read a damn fine excerpt from Brad Dukes' upcoming book Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks over at USAToday. 
   
• Jesse Damiani wrote about the problem with time travel in movies, specifically X-Men: Days of Future Past, for PressPlay.
   
• "In five years, Marvel has transformed into the only live-action brand that matters to mass audiences and prompted nearly every major studio to mimic its 'universe' strategy for building franchises." The Hollywood Reporter on how Marvel became the envy (and scourge) of Hollywood.
   
• "An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive."
   
• Ah, a history lesson we can all frustratingly appreciate: Gideon Lewis-Kraus wrote for Wired about the history of autocorrect.
   
• In the first edition of Rolling Stone's new monthly series "Be Kind, Rewind," David Marchese looks back and appreciates Adam McKay’s Step Brothers.
   
• At Comic-Con this week, Dan Harmon announced that Community's sixth season will begin on Yahoo in December at the earliest, and won't be binge-watchable.
   
• "From Gaza to dating, why users are confessing their thoughts on anonymous apps like Secret."
   
• "The truth of the matter is ultimately irrelevant, but the possible connection between Kore-eda’s film and Radiohead’s song nevertheless hints at the answer to a different set of questions altogether: Why isn’t the band’s music used in movies very often, and why is it almost never used well?" David Ehrlich on the use, nonuse, and misuse of Radiohead in film. 
• Finally, I'll leave you with Morgan Freeman's "very undignified" Tonight Show interview, on helium.