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The first photo in today’s Big Picture is absolutely, heart-breakingly horrible. I started to cry when I pointed it out to one of my coworkers.

Oil reaches Louisiana shores – The Big Picture – Boston.com

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Impulse buys at Logee’s.

Google Font Directory.

List of tautological place names on Wikipedia

Justice Thomas said the court should look to the practices at the time the Bill of Rights was adopted. Given that capital punishment could be imposed on people as young as 7 in the 18th century, he said, Mr. Graham’s punishment would almost certainly have been deemed acceptable back then.

via Court Bars Life Terms for Youths Who Haven’t Killed – NYTimes.com.

Justice Thomas should recall that the practices at the time the Bill of Rights was adopted condoned the practice of slavery.

This lovely short film really helped me get a handle on the scale of the Icelandic volcano in a way that the still and aerial photography I’ve seen did not.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

An inspiring speech by a California Republican.

Mappa Lundi, originally uploaded by Matt Lancashire.

Hand-drawn, simplified, schematic. It’s wonderful.