I got punk’d by Jesus

—Ben, after seeing the “security bar” at accept Jesus, forever forgiven

Whale caught in May was hunted in 1890

“Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 ½ -inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale’s age, estimated at 115 to 130 years old.”

OJR has a nice article on how people navigate slideshows, using the WashPost’s player

“…perhaps the most interesting observation was the very low level usage of the non-linear approach (and when it was used, how few slides were observed.)”

Despite being on The Colbert Report, Josh Wolf is still a total douchebag

New York magazine piece on Edward Tufte

“And who are these fans who won’t leave? The majority are male, and wearing expensive rimless eyeglasses.”

The Encyclopedia of Life looks like a really, really cool Wikipedia for every species on Earth.

French Laundry chef Thomas Keller taught the Pixar crew how to cook for “Ratatouille”

How awesome is that?!

Maybe this is all a lesson in transparency

—Ben, upon learning that scripting.com is currently broken and exposing the entire directory structure

If states were renamed to countries with the same GDP

The uber-pc is upon us