• 100 DVDs still in our NetFlix queue – Todd Levin presents the funniest unwritten RADAR list ever. White Blackula! (via The Morning News)
• Lipstick on a Wing Nut – Katha Pollitt at The Nation has a few questions for Sarah Palin. (via Ezra Klein)
• What Makes People Vote Republican? – Jonathan Haidt has an important essay on why the Republicans are winning the culture wars. (edge.org)
• GRB 080319B – The brightest object ever observed in the universe by a factor of more than 2 million times. (Scientific Blogging)

• Excerpts from a Human Rights Humour Blog – In Brazil, they make you join a gang when you go to prison. In Angola, a death squad murders a film crew staging a bank heist movie. (via Marginal Revolution)
• Gandhi Pills – Forget about athletic performance enhancing drugs, or cognitive performance drugs, what we need are drugs that make you a better person. (Wired Science)
• Hot, Flat & Crowded – The New York Times review of Thomas Friedman’s new book. (NYT Books)
• The world’s verdict will be harsh if the US rejects Obama – Jonathan Freedland describes how the view of the US in the rest of the world will continue to spiral downward if Obama is not elected. (The Guardian)

• Anthropocentric Environmentalism - Freddie deBoer writes at Culture 11 about how we should re-frame “green” ideas. (via The American Scene)
• Why Libertarians Should Vote for Obama – Alex Tabarrok on how Republicans have been moving us away from libertarian ideals through war, fear and out-of-control spending. (Marginal Revolution)
• The Accidental Particle – James Owen Weatherall writes a clear and concise history of the standard model of particle physics, and why we shouldn’t expect the Higgs boson to show up when the LHC goes live today. (Slate)
• How Video Games Blind Us With Science – The brilliant Clive Thompson on how game players test the rules and limits of their worlds with the scientific method. (Wired Commentary)
• Bum-vertising in Toronto – Mark Lostracco on local radio station CFRB’s crass new advertising campaign. (Torontoist)
  

This is a list of interesting stuff from this past week that I didn’t get a chance to write about.

• What if we didn’t bail out the creditors? – Tyler Cowan on what we could have expected had there been no bailout for Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. (Marginal Revolution)
• Brave New World of Digital Intimacy – Clive Thompson on how Twitter and Facebook updates are changing the way we understand the lives of others. (NYT Magazine)
• SideTaker: Crowdsourcing Your Private Disputes, With Hilarious Results – Jason Kincaid on a new website that lets you ask the world who is right about all the stupid crap you fight about in your relationship. (TechCrunch)
• Three Great Social Contractarians: Hobbes, Locke, and … Blackbeard? – Peter Leeson on why criminal organizations form terrific social contracts. (Freakonomics Blog)
• Mexico Supreme Court orders Wal-Mart to stop paying workers in store vouchers – Oh, Wal-Mart… the first step to reforming your image is to stop doing ridiculously evil shit. (via reddit)
• The Hottest Rhetorical Device of Campaign ’08 - Juliet Lapidos on the reversible raincoat, or the “antimetabole” for you rhetoric geeks. (Slate)
• The dream for a human capital agenda - Edward L. Glaeser writes in on the Boston Globe’s Op-Ed page on why investing in human capital is the best thing we can do for the future. (via Economist’s View)
• How to cheat at everything – A con man reveals some of his tricks in Intelligent Life Magazine. (via kottke)
• Study firmly shows no connection between measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism – Will people finally stop believing this now? (via reddit)