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Facebook as a foundation.

All about "The Platform," ambition, and what is sure to be a huge IPO. A success story, and I'm impressed. Go Facebook!

"Wrist-slittingly depressing, yes, but there are glimmers of hope on the horizon."

"It is important to preserve this period of American history, or more exactly, the history of our (perhaps unique, or at least extreme) American propensity to believe the strangest things, to have the strangest practices."

"Ken Ham and his organization, Answers in Genesis, have created a glossy simulacrum of a museum, a slick imitation of a scientific enterprise veneered over long disproved religious fables..."

A walk through the new museum about Creationism.

A "nefarious chicken-finger pandemic?" "It pains me that many children now grow up eating little besides golden-brown logs of kid food, especially in a time when the quality, variety and availability of good ingredients is better than ever."

Secret recordings of intermissions. "It opens with an audience murmur and a clarinet flourish, then a few quiet whumps from a bass drum and a repeated glockenspiel note. A woman laughs. A man says, “Excuse me.” Snare-drum rolls swell..."

Must see. "Most of the subtitles in 'Night Watch' are in clear, white sans serif lettering, but others adopt different guises to reflect the mood and action of the film. Some glide across the screen from different angles."

So true.

A fantastic idea. A map of every guest in attendance, with teaser text and role explanations to make conversation more frequent, more interesting, and less awkward.

"PLZ BE RESPECTING FEUDALIZM"

All right. "Who decided that with age your desire to have a clean ass goes away?"

The Yakuza, Russian Mafia, Italian Mafia, Mexican Drug Cartels, and the fading Italian-American Mafia.

Weblog by Khoi Vinh, Design Director for The New York Times website and champion of grid-based web design.

Excellent art.

Who are those people out and about between 9 and 5? Poets and web designers, trust fund babies and people between jobs.

"If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?"

A bit of my history on the internet. 2003!

Great interview, including some song meanings.

Founding members leave, are erased from the history of the project. Guidelines on how to be a successful entrepreneur.

"People who make websites: Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?" Win something, possibly, by filling it out.

According to Mark Robinson, anyway. Some fastastic stuff here.

"Stealth fighters are for wimps." Amazing photos, many by "plane spotter" hobbyists. Glorifying!

"...the rule, version 2.0: If you drop a piece of food, pick it up quickly, take five seconds to recall that just a few bacteria can make you sick, then take a few more to think about where you dropped it and whether or not it’s worth eating."

"The point is not so much that you can equip a real kitchen without much money, but that the fear of buying the wrong kind of equipment is unfounded. It needs only to be functional, not prestigious, lavish or expensive."

Complete to an extent that can only be called glordicrous. (glorious + ludicrous)

Creative assignments. "You can do any of the assignments, in any order."

First in an interesting series. Does Bush use bad, "populist" design to appeal to unsophisticated right-wingers? Just one part of the unspoken debate over class in the world of design.

"God is all-powerful. Therefore, God can do anything, and regenerating a leg is trivial."