Here are some pieces so interesting I’m at a loss for further commentary: Building coral reefs with electricity A Zero-Sum Wealth Quiz Dropping the SAT and ACT The future of internet searches History of technological penetrance

There, I said it. I hate Twitter. For those unaware, Twitter describes itself as “a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives.” It allows users to send and read other users’ messages and updates (called “tweets”),...

During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama pledged to remove all American troops from Iraq within sixteen months of assuming office. That promise has since been discarded by pushing the withdraw date back over a year to December 31, 2011. Oh, and 50,000 troops will also be remaining...

Louisiana’s Governor Bobby Jindal gave last night’s GOP response to President Obama’s address to a joint Congressional session, and the otherwise unremarkable speech has received considerable attention due to Jindal’s potential aspirations in 2012. Jindal for President makes some...

Megan McArdle, responding to Matt Yglesias who says he doesn’t believe “more than a tiny fraction” of the blame for bad mortgage loans belongs to the borrowers, has this to say: It seems to me that this sort of acts like borrowers shouldn’t have any obligation to repay money...

As conservatism writhes in pain over a broken and fractured movement, brought about in part because of horrible elected and media figures, I often find myself thinking of William F. Buckley, Jr. Apparently, so does his son Christopher Buckley in a wonderful column marking the anniversary of WFB’s...

Freddie DeBoer is a PC: …it amazes me, absolutely amazes me, the number of Apple owners who lack the clarity or self-awareness to realize that purchasing a commodity from a enormous, soulless corporation that is also owned by several million other people doesn’t make you a unique and beautiful...

Jonathan Jarvis is graduate student at the Art Center College of Design, and for his thesis project, he created the brilliant clip below. As popular as this project has become, I predict Mr. Jarvis will have no trouble finding employment once he graduates. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan...

The same friend who sent me the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon is my regular source for insiderish news on church matters. He reports that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)’s task force on human sexuality has finished its work and has released a social statement called “Human...

Zach’s shared items include a Radley Balko post which excerpts a Washington Times column by Bruce Fein. I thought this was worth highlighting further. It seems that President Obama is assuming some of the executive privileges which many on the left (including Senator Obama himself) loudly derided...