“Most of the hair that gets shorn is from men. That gets sold to chemical companies and gets reduced to an amino acid called L-cystine, which is used as a leavening agent in baking goods.”
 — Hi, I’m trying not to throw up. Here’s a great primer on…

“In a newly published study, three University of Oklahoma researchers report there is a higher rate of accidental deaths among whites (but not nonwhites) in the American South and West — regions where a ‘culture of honor’ makes backing down from a challenge problematic for many males…

Rumors on the Internets put the Facebook IPO as coming early next year, which, BOOM, BANG, EVERYTHING BLOWS UP, CONFETTI, DEATH, BOTTLE SERVICE, THE FOUR HORSEMEN, INVISIBLE RICHES, CHINA BUYS BRAZIL, CATS AND DOGS HAVING…

“The web is like a self-cleaning oven in that it will correct itself over time.”
 — That is so funny (and also, in the middle of a very interesting conversation between Times reporter David Carr and Aaron Sorkin), because I’ve never heard anything else compared to a self-cleaning oven.

Did you miss the big news this weekend? “Police have been called to the Marquess of Bath’s Longleat estate in Wiltshire after one his ‘wifelets’ was allegedly injured during a late night fight with a rival.” Mm hmm…

If your favorite neighborhood in Manhattan is what I like to call The Plastic Wig and Lousy Trinket Import District, or Little New Lagos, or, as they once called it, Tin Pan Alley, or, more boringly, North Flatiron, you will enjoy this oral history of 28th and…

There is a difference between “trawling” and “trolling.” Apparently one of them involves a net.

“Capitol Police officers are sweating a new management decision to ban officers assigned to the Capitol from wearing shorts…. [U]nion representatives said they were told that Inspector Donald Roullier, who oversees the department’s Capitol Division, made…

Good news, Manhattan: You’re about to get an International House of Pancakes! Can Shoney’s be far behind? [Via]

Well maybe it helps prevent E. coli or something: “Apples are at the top of the list of produce most contaminated with pesticides in a report published today by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a public health advocacy group.”

A British lady broke up with her boyfriend.

Is this the end of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi? “Today saw the results of four referendum votes in Italy to repeal Berlusconi-era legislation on nuclear power, water privatisation and trial immunity for government…