Looking forward to exploring this.

How "surge," ironic mustaches and Abu Ghraib fit into the past decade.

One of the most beautiful pieces of writing I've read in a long time.

The history of the Internet. Illustrated!

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary". oh, hindsight.

"Demand, as Reagan did, a full accounting and report from an independent body. Explain your evolving views. Defend your honor and your family’s long record of public service. Blame no one else."

genghis khan energy drinks. hmm.

The best part of this article: the Venn diagram of Lady Chatterley and Her Lover.

my grandfather worked with von Braun in the 1950s. would love to read his notes online.

"Moskowitz is a man of uncommon exuberance and persuasiveness: if he had been your freshman statistics professor, you would today be a statistician."

"Most famously, Mrs Klarsfeld, a German from a Christian background, publicly slapped the West German Chancellor Kurt-George Kiesinger in 1968, because of his former role as director of Nazi propaganda broadcasting, a blow that resonated around Europe and that helped bring about Kiesinger's fall from power. That slap is still discussed in German schools today, such was its significance."