Check out this great series of photographs of the American West from 150 years ago by Tim Sullivan.  Amazing.

White House calls for new law targeting 'offshore" websites.  It is SOPA under another name.  And they will keep trying.  Vigilance against this stuff is essential.

Great comparison of Nixon and Obama as sports fans from Grantland.

Remembering Carroll Shelby, from Autoweek.   RIP.

Remembering Vidal Sassoon.  RIP.

According to a new study, differences in dopamine levels may determine how hard people work.

Awesome collection of photos of the Kowloon Walled City.

The Obama campaign is collecting dubious donations again this election.  After disabling Address Verification Systems in the 2008 election for online credit card donations, the same gimmick is being used for the coming election.  Which allows for fraudulent and/or foreign donations, which are of course illegal.  But no major news organization cares to report on the practice.