Jesse James Hollywood is on trial in Santa Barbara for the murder of Nicholas Markowitz in 2000. Part One of our coverage was published here on May 27.

Tom Scocca: Keller of ‘NYT’ in Iran: ‘The Iranians Watch Us Closely’
 Choire Sicha: Mr. Executive Editor of the Times is driving me a little crazy. His Reporter’s Notebook?
 Tom Scocca: Oh? Oh. “A newcomer to town.”
 Tom Scocca: Oh, he…

You have surely by now heard of Old Jews Telling Jokes. (If you have not let me quickly bring you up to speed: It is a site featuring videos of old Jews telling jokes.) It can be pretty hit or miss, but Daniel Okrent-inventor of rotisserie baseball, pioneer…

Sorry, everything is so horribly dark today! It might be the pouring rain. Or you know, the end of the world. Here, here is the worst story on earth, which is an anonymous survey of 1738 men on how often they have raped people in two provinces…

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If Twitter tweets are being bought by New York editors, and HarperCollins is turning Chesley Sullenberger into a published poet, who’s to say you can’t build a book, and a film, from a Facebook update? Howie…

“The Guardian Council, one of Iran’s top oversight bodies, said Thursday it would invite the country’s three unsuccessful presidential challengers to a meeting to discuss the contested weekend elections.” Uh…

Bruno, Sasha Baron Cohen’s cinematic object of gay panic, premiered last night in London, and the early reviews are in. How is it?

• “Sacha Baron Cohen and his wicked comic cohorts have produced a film that is funnier, more…

Britain’s House of Commons has published its members’ expense reports, and the Guardian take account of some of the more amusing claims. My favorite is either “£100 for hair straighteners” or “£70.50 for a locksmith after locking himself out” but there’s something here for everybody.

From the Penny Illustrated Paper, deep in the archives of The British Library’s newspaper collection, we learn that not much has changed in 100 years: angry suffragettes and ill-tempered husbands!

From the paper’s “Humour” column:

Times biz columnist Joe Nocera weighs in on the Obama administration’s financial system regulatory plans: “Everywhere you look in the plan, you see the same thing: additional regulation on the margin, but nothing that…

It’s clearly gonna be that kind of day: “The pilot of a Continental Airlines jetliner died midflight on Thursday morning as the plane, carrying 247 passengers, was en route from Brussels to Newark, the authorities said. Two first officers were operating the plane, a Boeing 777…

Useless? Or wonderful? The executive editor of Golf Digest is live-Twittering the U.S. Open. It’s sort of like poetry. Meaningless, meaningless poetry, from a time before there was no, say, television to deliver “moving images.” Remember TV? It was so functional.

SCOTUSblog: “Spitting 5–4, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an individual whose criminal conviction has become final does not have a constitutional right to gain access to evidence so that it can be subjected to DNA testing.” Presumably they mean “splitting,” but hahaha, it’s funny either way…