An interesting expose into the life of a ghost writer. A writer for hire who composes essays for incompetent undergrad and graduate students.

An interesting article by The Independent that describes the ways in which the CIA covertly funded the American Modern Art movement as a propaganda tactic to espouse the artistic and intellectual freedoms of the US as opposed to the overt propagandizing of the art of the Soviet Union.

Wonderful video of the "Brooklyn Space Program". A successful attempt at sending a camera to space on a weather balloon by a parent and a couple of kids.

A depressing yet fascinating article on the way that patients in America approach death, and how a revised look at end-of-life care could lead to longer life spans, lower costs, and better quality of life towards the end.

a photographic history of the development of the Lisa interface... the first GUI based computer.