Climate change researcher MichaeMann has had his work subpoenaed by Virginia Attorney General Ken "Cooch" Cuccinelli. A digest of why your life is so hard, as demonstrated in low-budget television advertisements. SLYT

For those who like rules more defined. Take the latest post's first sentence and combine it with the bottom post's last sentence.

If anything goes wrong, it's going to be an awfully big mess. [more inside]

I'm not sure what triggered the thought, but I realized that MetaFilter - and many of the sites of MetaFilter users - weren't around when GiveQuick began, and so I thought it might be nice to (re)introduce the idea. The wealth of "high net-worth individuals" is set to leap by an annual 12 percent to $44.9 trillion by 2004 with technology windfalls pushing more people into the "ultra-rich" category, a Merrill Lynch and Gemini Consulting survey showed on Tuesday.

Ten years ago. Delicious.

Everything is a variety program. A digest of why your life is so hard, as demonstrated in low-budget television advertisements. SLYT

Despite irrefutable video evidence of the incident, Erykah Badu pleads not guilty to indecency charges. Not to mention all those snowmen.

It doesn't matter that this 11 minute video is just a commercial for Dogfish Head Beer. Just the thing to keep the Valentine's Day flames burning.

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Photographer Travis Dove's photo essay on Skatopia, an anarchist skater farm retreat in Ohio, here. Others are actually the pictures transmitted with the iconoscope camera in the studio and outdoors.

Despite irrefutable video evidence of the incident, Erykah Badu pleads not guilty to indecency charges. I thought it was pleasant, plus it's fun to imagine him saying such ordinary things.

Breaking Bad Locations in Albuquerque. A representative from the Union of Concerned Scientists calls this action "a witch hunt."

Inside the studio of American artist Frank Stella: For one year, twelve cows on a dairy farm Twitter about their lactation cycle and robotic milking activities.

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"If anything goes wrong it's going to be an awfully big mess...." Part 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Do you remember who your high school graduation commencement speaker was? Cthulu Is Not Cute.

It sprang to life sometime in the 3rd millennium, outliviving the kingdoms of ancient Egypt, it survived six of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and it's older than Judaism. The work in progress in his studio, The Stations of the Cross, is a commission from Richard Meier for his proposed Jubilee Church at the Vatican.