The Density of Smart People (The Atlantic)
(Oklahoma City just isn't going to like this)

When I Am King (burnt wood stop motion animation, by Sverre Fredriksen

MY DESK IS 8-BIT from alex varanese on Vimeo.

My Desk is 8-bit

 Buck creates a world using Sherwin Williams paint chips

Big Pharma does good (well... at least this once):  Glaxo is open-sourcing their malaria drug research.

Typing on a one handed keyboard is surprisingly easy

Gary Foshee, a collector and designer of puzzles from Issaquah near Seattle walked to the lectern to present his talk. It consisted of the following three sentences: "I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys?"

Why so many people refuse to believe the truth (New Scientist)
Part of a series on Living in Denial

Congress has made BP's oil leakage video feed public and is posting on GlobalWarming.House.gov (it's currently getting slammed, and may time out).  BP had previously denied congress access to the feed, but was forced to do so.
Here's an especially ugly vid-cap from earlier in the month showing oil gushing into the gulf at the sea floor. 
Meanwhile, Haliburton's CEO, whose company was also involved in the accident, announced to shareholders this morning that they wouldn't have to pay a dime to cover damages from the environmental catastrophe.

Cyclist Floyd Landis, after years of maintaining his innocence against doping charges, now admits to having spent $90,000 per year on outlawed performance enhancing drugs. He's also dropping the dime on former teammates, including Lance Armstrong.  LiveStrong, indeed.

Seriously: What would you think of someone who sported this?

 A collection of good punk photos from MRR (as posted on Wired).  Anything that leads off with the Mummies is A-OK.

The 50 Greatest Samples in Hip-hop History
With full original songs.

Putting old-school Joules on an Electric Enfield (Wired)

A history of the Fallout Shelter Sign

Publishing meets crowdsourcing: 48 Hours Magazine is attempting to create, write, photograph, edit, and publish a magazine in 48 hours.

Here's how it works: Issue Zero begins May 7th. We'll unveil a theme and you'll have 24 hours to produce and submit your work. We'll take the next 24 to snip, mash and gild it. The end results will be a shiny website and a beautiful glossy paper magazine, delivered right to your old-fashioned mailbox. We promise it will be insane. Better yet, it might even work.

Apple's Steve Jobs sends an open letter to Adobe on why his mobile products won't support Adobe Flash.
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While Job's has little room to crow on his own company's history in software openness, I agree with many of his points.  With HTML5 coming, Flash may be at the end of it's useful life anyway.

The Wind Man who Beat Cape Cod's Elite
Jim Gordon struggles to lift a book. It's 4,000 pages, more than a foot thick and one of the dozens of government reports over the last decade assessing the nation's first offshore wind farm.
"It's thicker than the health care bill," chuckles Gordon, the 56-year-old CEO of Cape Wind.

Frisbee Collective, a gallery of all things frisbee, including a vintage gallery.

Think Again:  The Internet (ForeignPolicy)
They told us it would usher in a new era of freedom, political activism, and perpetual peace. They were wrong.