Encrypt your iChat conversations with iChat Barrier. Why isn’t everything like this (IM, email, Web browsing, etc.) encrypted by default?

The problem of just-in-time media reviews. The blogosphere gets around this by attacking the problem from thousands of different angles.

Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game. Way more fun than it sounds.

Driving lesson goes awry and SUV ends up at the bottom of a swimming pool. Love the photo.

A trip to Danny Meyer’s new Shake Shack in Madison Square Park is in order later this month.

This summer’s best and worst album covers.

The Capitalism of Soccer - Why Europe’s favorite sport is more American than baseball..

Microsoft-owned Slate recommends ditching Internet Explorer for Mozilla Firefox.

On Oblivion: “David Foster Wallace has perfected a particularly subtle form of horror story — so subtle, in fact, that to judge from the book’s reviews, few of his readers even realize that’s what these stories are.”. After the 3rd or 4th story in, I had the same thought: “DFW is writing horror stories now?”

The Photoshopping of the President.

The mysteries of Wilco. “The album is like an aimless, droning lecture by a guy who every 20 minutes does a magic trick that blows your mind”.

Play with the widgets that are turning up in OS X Tiger.

Man who was featured in Errol Morris’ Thin Blue Line exectued in Texas.