For those of you fasting (but stilling using a computer), a few things to take your mind off of being hungry:
* “The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut”:http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/07/05/100705sh_shouts_ephron (h/t to my mom)
* “The Dave Matthews GPS”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqZzePvGpy0 (h/t to Jeff Dorer)
* “Yankees caps are more popular than Mets caps when committing crimes in NYC”:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/nyregion/16caps.html?emc=eta1 (h/t to Andy Rudalevige)
* An “interesting argument that the mainstream media is missing the importance of anti-abortion sentiment in the rise of the Tea Party”:http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/77748/abortion-and-the-tea-party-ed-kilgore
And finally, here’s a cool (albeit admittedly Eurocentric) map-based account of the spread of regimes throughout human history in 90 seconds: