Issue #29

Current Issue #54 August 31, 2010

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Note from the
Editor

Changing to Tuesday Publication
Links of the Week

Starting with our next Issue, Issue #30, we will be publishing on Tuesdays. Issue #30 will be published on Tuesday, March 16.
Class Is In
Session

Random, Interesting Facts
Learn Something New Every Day

We can't say these "facts" are particularly useful, but they are fun.
Clever Ad

Life's Short. Get a Divorce
Nihilistic, cynical or merely clinically pragmatic? Whatever you decide, the fact is this campaign touched a nerve.
Controversial

All-White Sorority Wins Stepping Competition
Gawker

Step routines are traditionally associated with African-American fraternities and sororities, so the triumph of a white squad set off a heated debate.
Funny

All TV News Reports Have an Insultingly Similar Structure
Charlie Brooker

The British journalist and comic writer offers a masterclass in nuanced satire.
Insightful

How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web
Steven Levy, Wired

Wired's senior writer pens an opus on the dominance of Google's search engine.
Interesting
List

Ten Amazing Bridges
Travel and Leisure

When a low-budget bridge just won't do.
Photograph

The Burn No. 23
Jane Fulton Alt

This daze-inducing shot is from one of the prescribed prairie burns executed by restoration ecologists that the photographer documented.
Shocking

Boy Heard Over Air Traffic Control Directing Planes at JFK Airport
BBC News

A father possibly takes the idea of bringing your child to work a little too far.
Strange But
True

Tough Guy Contest
Daily Mail

Too much free time can be a dangerous thing.
Worth Noting

Vancouver Olympic Village Called in an Emergency Shipment of Condoms
John Shmuel, National Post

The Olympic Village has always been known as something of a sex festival.
Editor's
Surprise

Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primodial Ooze
GOOD

Nature can be morbid.