Why We Swear (The New Republic)
Amazing essay about the power, form and origin of swearing.

J.K. Rowling outs Hogwarts character (Yahoo News)
She's rich enough that she can say that now, but wouldn't it have been just a little braver had she actually written it down?

Gabe's Wicked Cool Pokemon Fan Art (Penny Arcade)
The neat thing about Pokemon is that it's been around long enough that it has cycled through the cool-to-hate-it phase and is right back to cool-to-love-it.

Venn Diagram: Comparing The PlayStation 3 Models (Game|Life)
Proof, in Venn Diagram form, that I bought the best of the four (four!) models. All said and done, I'm only down that 20gig.

Pear Cable Chickens Out of $1,000,000 Challenge, We Search For Answers (Gizmodo)
Long tale about my man James Randi taking down some jackass tech company that sells $7000 speaker cables.