Beautifully stark architectural photos. I love this stuff.

And you might not care. "He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds."

An old interview with my old favorite band. Lots of fun here.

"Watch free documentaries."

Excellent photography of places and objects, with a vaguely Americana feel.

Beautiful photographs, at once empty and full. This set is called "Silent World" by whoever put this page together, but I can't find any reference to that collection on Kenna's website, so I think this is a fan mashup.

"One hundred ambient tones is a collection of short ≈40sec ambient audio snippets designed to be listened to in 'random' or 'shuffle' ordering. The transitions between tracks, chosen randomly by your machine on playback, become the focus."

A truly awesome collection.

Just like it says.

"The McVickars and McVickers in America have been shown themselves to be, on the whole, a highly religious race, intellectually able, resourceful, and possessed of the strength of their convictions."

"America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world." A cautious but firm and thoughtful endorsement from an excellent publication.

This pretty much sums it up.

"We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. "

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Includes Jan Svankmajer's fantastic "Et Cetera."

A great collection of neutral articles about the facts and possible effects of candidates' proposed tax plans.

Who are these people?

"Grab Change by the Stem!"

This is super-fun.

"the Department of Health is considering plans to force tobacco manufacturers to sell their cigarettes in plain unbranded packets." "They'd be taking one of the most carefully branded products in the world, and de-branding it. And since they've already banned tobacco advertising, cancer sticks don't really have much else left except their branding. They'd be stripping them back to just their name, taste and cost."

A design studio. Keep refreshing the homepage.

Photographs stretching back to 2004. There are some wonderful shots here.

A great profile of the author, who wrote "No Country for Old Men". "At its root, McCarthy's fiction arises from the tragedy of all wild creatures, of whatever is begotten, born, and dies, the tragedy of autonomous life in a world increasingly circumscribed by a rage for order and captivity. More than merely human. It is the tragedy of warm blood itself, of blood and time."

"The Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope."

A fantastic blog on Japanese language, literature, and culture. I revel in this. (And this is what a blog should be — written only so often, and every post is high-quality. Comments are few and long and educated and of very high quality themselves.)

How the two astronomical numbers most often thrown out by the intellectual property lobby are utterly bogus. Interesting: "When someone torrents a $12 album that they would have otherwise purchased, the record industry loses $12, to be sure. But that doesn't mean that $12 has magically vanished from the economy. On the contrary: someone has gotten the value of the album and still has $12 to spend somewhere else."

"Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. "

In honor of *Vanity Fair’*s 25th anniversary, the magazine’s editors flexed their list-making muscles to determine the 25 best of everything—from book covers and documentaries to parties and political one-liners. Herewith, the top 25 news photographs.