"The Game" is a book about a secret society of men who share tips on infallible ways of picking up women in bars.

As the name suggests, the Internet Archive is a non-governmental organization that charts the web and preserves records of its growth for studies and for the future.

An article in The Guardian about bailes funk (the music/social phenomenon arising from shanty towns in Rio).

An extract of an unfinished book by Janna Levin, provocatively (at least for me) called "A MADMAN DREAMS OF TURING MACHINES".

A compulsive blogger has summarized the best entries each month for the last five years of the blog BoingBoing.

An article in The Guardian piecing together what happened during the Uzbek demonstrations, when hundreds or thousands of people got killed.

An article in New Scientist describing a parasitic worm that infects land-living grasshoppers and somehow makes them jump in the water to die, so that the worms can leave their host and live in the water. Isn't science better than science fiction?

Jonathan Freedland on the vulnerability of the U.S., as evidenced by Katrina.

An article by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne demolishing intelligent design.