We had already taken off for the weekend when this link landed in our inbox on Friday, but our laziness should be no reason for you to miss Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz’s incredible series of photos of nightlife in Cardiff, Wales. It’s nice…

House mice come from India; tame cats come from Iraq-about 10,000 years ago. And in case you were wondering why cats weren’t as overbred as dogs? Actual scientists claim it’s because cats “lack any inclination for performing most tasks that would be useful to humans.” Stupid scientists.

Scandal in the world of British academia, as “Ruth Padel, the first woman elected Oxford’s professor of poetry, has resigned following claims she tipped off journalists about allegations that her chief rival for the post, Derek Walcott, had sexually harassed students.” The move…

Question: If a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie features none of the characters fans associate with the title and doesn’t even involve movie/series/comic creator Joss Whedon, can it be considered a real Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie? I don’t know! Because I HAVE A LIFE.

Obama’s Supreme Court nominee: it’s Sonia Sotomayor. And here is what you can look forward to: “A cottage industry-literally an industry, given the sums of money raised and spent-now exists in which the far left and right either brutalize or lionize the…

Yet another topless photo of French first lady Carla Bruni is up for auction. This one was taken by photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994, and is titled “Carla Bruni in bed.” A source close to Nicolas Sarkozy says the French president “has…

We do love an article that’s over just as it begins: “Is Google SkyNet? In a word: Yes.” Okay, we’re sold!

As a sort of appendix to thoughts about the New York Times and Carlos Slim, there are also these excellent thoughts about what makes a tabloid newspaper a news operation. A news product is, in many ways, made of its own delivery vehicle-and this is a point that’s obvious…

The report this weekend that the New York Times had-and blew-the Watergate scoop sends us down a crazy path of “what if?”

Sonia Sotomayor has only been a Supreme Court nominee for two-and-a-half hours and she’s already proving divisive among Hispanics, Jews, and Talking Points Memo readers.

The bewildered unfortunate you see here is Andrew Mackay, a British MP caught up in that country’s ongoing expenses scandal. Since apparently I am the only one on this site interested in the story, I’ll spare you the embedded 20-minute video, but if you want…

Giant lizard attacks! North Korea nuclear tests (and subsequent proliferation)! Continuing turmoil in housing markets and a new “normal” of higher unemployment! Ben Stiller beating Christian Bale at the box office! I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekends, because it looks like TOTAL DISASTER from here on out!