[Scientific American]
How loss of privacy may mean loss of security.

[Books 4 Barack]
Authors donate free signed books for donations to Barack Obama.

[various]
The provocation.

The explanation.

The rebuttal.

[MediaScrape]
News videos from a range of international sources.

[The Olympian]
In closing arguments, Creatura asked the jury to set aside personal skepticism about Knight or her claim to channel Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old male warrior spirit, and to decide the case solely on legal issues. I want you to wipe the horns off their (Knight and school associates') heads—these are real people, intelligent people, he said. Their beliefs may be different than yours, but they're still entitled to protection.

[Los Angeles Times]
David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist and humorist, has hanged himself.

[Caught in the Web]
Robert Thompson: This is the defining cultural observation of the 21st century: We are cells of conformists in a nonconformist, fractured society. We are satisfied, placated by the notion of individualism. But it is an illusion. Rugged individualism is a target market—people who own sports utility vehicles. I have never heard an American refer to himself as a sheep. Yet, our consumer behavior is that we purchase the same products, wear the same style of clothes and only identify with certain groups that may share our views, incomes, religion, age and maybe even looks.

[ClayBennett.com]
What we've lost. [cartoon]

[Worldmapper]
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps.

[FlowingData]
Winner of the Flowing Data personal visualization project.

[The Washington Post]
Clueless churches seek to defy tax-exempt status.

[GreedyPeople]
Want somebody to do something for money?

[Lilliput Review]
"Near perfect" books of poetry.