The Krugman Truth Squad reports on an interview I wish I'd seen. I did see Krugman on Real Time with Bill Maher, where the questions were quite a bit softer.

Check out this site containing hundreds of amazing optical illusions. Very cool!!!

Here's Kristof's position on ANWR. Shocker! I have plenty to say about this one, but since today is link day, I'll lay off. Short version: He has all the dots but a very illogical and distorted way of connecting them. He continues with this next article on global warming, where again he has the facts ("Some 14,000 years ago, a warming trend apparently raised the sea level by 70 feet in just a few hundred years. Today's computer models don't foresee a repeat of that, but they also can't explain why it happened then.") but still tows the environut line instead of acknowledging what should be fairly obvious: Humans didn't cause global warming 14,000 years ago, and it's quite likely we aren't doing it now. "Beaches of Ohio"? What, me worry?

A little 9/11 catch-up - definitely more here than one can read. For those with less time, here's a cool photo.

Brian points out a hilarious Farking of the Microsoft Highschool initiative.

For you budding digital photographers, a short review of small cameras with big features (link from Gizmodo).

A very interesting article about why churches with organs may instill a disorienting or possibly religious feeling.

The logic of this NYT Op-Ed about eliminating farm subsidies left me a little confused. I don't think the idea is to preserve poor farmers, but to benefit POOR NATIONS. Like, THE WHOLE NATION, not some imagined subset idyllic lifestyle. Whateva.

Here's a really funny President Bush $200 bill. If they weren't illegal, I'd love to have one!

Mark Steyn offers a sober look at a murder in Sweden and the implications of passivity.

Finally, here is a cool post from Joi Ito:

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