What do you know about a Polish Joke? A search for meaning reveals much more lies beneath the skin than you’d expect.

Will California’s attempt to tax online sales really cause Amazon to pull out?

Salon takes a shit all over the Aspen Ideas Festival, the biggest gathering of “insufferable elitists” in America.

How depressing. New study evaluates the mortality rates of black men and find they are, in fact, safest in prison.

Charming read on Salon about a father-and-son vagabond duo who bonded forever by hustling tools across the Midwest…

ViceMag interviews the “inactivist” driving SF’s much-discussed foreskin ban, whose promotional comic is startling.

BitFriday occurred on June 10, 2011; the first crash in digital currencies. BitCoin lost over 30% of its value in only a few hours.

NY Times says that the a general B.A. leaves graduates with zero-to-nil career assuredness, and end up displacing the least educated workers.

Burning man aesthetic fuses with Intel, Creative partners to make a truly original, new concert experience, viewable for free over YouTube. Bravo.

This just-released “humanist” Bible draws on works from history’s great thinkers and writers, published in The UK.

New York Times review the Parker / Stone musical, “The Book of Mormon” as among very the best broadway productions in generations.

Netflix has moved into original content, with it’s first David Fincher-directed show, “House of Cards.”

South By Southwest is bulging. Once a local-centric festival, now a pan-media orgy, a local reflects on how this change happened. Via Black Book.

Is Japan’s nuclear emergency a “high-emotion, low impact” event that threatens to derail sensible policy?