When you finish a Neal Stephenson book, you feel like you’ve really accomplished something, except you also sometimes feel like you’ve taken a very long Greyhound bus ride and you’re mostly very tired. So, about 30 days after its release, I have finally gotten through the 1056 pages of Reamde…

“Has the number of bodyguards and plainclothes police and private security in obvious public view on New York’s Upper East Side dramatically increased since, say, the last time your editor was in town about a year-and-a-half ago? Because it was outrageous…

Ain’t nobody gonna ask Hipster Cop if he’s gay, I guess. Hot GQ pics though. (What a WORLD.)

More on Lisa Simeone and how NPR folks are running scared from their own shadows. (Sorry, NPR, there’s no way to sugarcoat this boondoggle.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbDJzDV1CM

“The better you can forget, the better you’ll be able to remember, scientists now say. To remember facts that are important in your life today, you have to be able to let go of information that you no longer need, says Benjamin…

“A study found that skinny women are less likely to become pregnant than those who are overweight — including those classed as dangerously obese,” which is pretty ironic when you realize that the only reason you are starving yourself in the first place is to trick a man into falling…

Here Are Some Things We Ran This Week

• Martin Luther King Jr.’s Lessons For Occupy D.C.

Adorable Animals as Leftist Mouthpieces

From the Internet that brought you everything else comes Awwcupy Wall Street Dot Tumblr Dot Com.

I’m know it’s all kinds of wrong and I’m sure that those of you who are more sophisticated than I will find the whole thing appalling, but THIS LOOKS AMAZING. Like, I might cancel my plans tonight so that I can stay in and make it. [Via]

Safe assumption of the day: “It is unknown what the pulsating light could be, although it is safe to assume that it is linked to the alien.”