Have you ever wanted to engage and bait a scammer? This guy did, and it was exhilarating to read.
A group of Oregon legislators slipped lyrics from "Never Gonna Give You Up" into their speeches, and then cut the result into a video. Now someone just needs to clean it up with auto-tune.
I loved reading this story about how the famous "blue marble" photograph of the earth came to be. Did you know the identity of the photographer is disputed? At first I thought, how is it possible that two people could clearly remember taking the same photo? Then I realized that Jeremy and I do that all the time, so much so that when our photos were featured in a book we had to have them credited to "Jeremy and Bridget Palmer."
Best ruling reasoning ever, re the Facebook ongoing litigation battle: "The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace."
Behold, a photographic tour of world desk jobs. I was really hoping the Egyptian Mujamma would make it in there.
Zoomable before/after pictures of the Japan tsunami. So sad.
Finally, here are some beautiful and interesting maps of US population change.