"The Book of Love is long and boring / no one can lift the damn thing"

[larryhammer]

It's full of charts and facts and figures / and instructions for dancing / but I love it when you read to me:

• How to still get Windows XP after June 30th and testing realism and the meaning of quantum mechanics. Or, arguably, the meaning of realism and testing quantum mechanics. (via)
  
  
• Bacteria observed evolving a complex trait out of smaller mutations. (via)
  
  
• The 10-worst paying jobs in the States. Compare to the official poverty threshold, especially for households of more than one person. (via)
  
  
• Top 5 tourist destinations Americans (and often others) can't visit. (via)
  
  
• Life on the streets: a primer for writers part 1, part 2.

And in conclusion, hang-gliding with penguins.

ETA: The 2008 Lyttle Lytton winners. (also via) Read 'em and weep.

---L.