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Rap parody music video for Smirnoff Raw Tea. “Where my WASPs at?” (See also Dynamite Hack’s 2000 cover of “Boyz-N-The Hood.”)

Gently melodic cover of N.W.A.’s “Boyz-N-the Hood” (explicit lyrics).

Insert your own text into a number of web images: vinyl records, concert tickets, politician speech bubbles, and the ever popular church signs.

“A more apt metaphor might be… a globally spanning mesh of some kind.” “A world wide web?” “No, I wouldn’t say that.”

Make your idle websurfing look like work on a Word document.

Choreographed video by OK Go (on treadmills!), a la “A Million Ways.”

A classic game of Space Invaders is choreographed with real humans, directed by Guillaume Reymond.

The Bay Area’s famous diversity isn’t limited to its population. You can find it littered on our highways.

And what I said at Princeton. By David Sedaris.

Rediscovering the heroic cartoon beefcake of my youth.

When gifts come back to haunt you. By David Sedaris.

Free magazines for download in PDF.

Six ads with John Hodgman as a PC, and Justin Long as a Mac.

Money-saving tips on everything from hotel rooms to cultural events from New York Times correspondents and contributors in 16 major European cities.

Compiles decades of social science research, the positions of the major child health and welfare organizations, and government data to show how children are hurt by restrictions on parenting by lesbians and gay men. (PDF)

You’ve seen the warning signs, you can tell something’s not quite right–so now’s the time to do something about it. A step-by-step guide on how to rid yourself of a hipster infestation.