• “How Star Wars Changed the World,” A map of Star Wars and its affects on the world.
• An amazing audio-article from the New Yorker on auto-tune.
• via BJ’s thoughts, it seems Record-Rama was purchased for $3,000,000 after all.
• McCain’s voicemail to Palin. (Don’t dress too sluty.)
  
• Not sure who this was from: The Enron Document Explorer.
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  via Coudal

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  I spent most of my time in Shiga prefecture when I stayed in Japan.via Coudal

• Paris Hilton Porn-rescramble:
  

Wow.

This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.

The way it’s presented leaves you feeling as though it was a case of accidental Art. Just wonderfully sad.