Arthur Miller RIP

Valentine's Day Sucks! Ah Valentine's Day! Otherwise known as "The End of The World Day" if you're single. This ghastly Hallmark Holiday is named after a martyred Roman who was beaten to death for not renouncing his Christianity. What a glorious history! Fortunately we've found a more palpable figurehead in a fat naked baby with a crossbow...

We have scientifically documented that being in the presence of the energy of a Painting That Heals

Help, Too Much iPod or Not Enough? Technologically stunted individual needs help deciding between mini iPod v. regular (+) more inside

Tracy Emin's Everyone Harry Potter Has Every Snogged With more inside

"A guy named Arkhipov saved the world." Everyone knows that the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. But in an underreported story from 2002, it was revealed just how close: one word.

The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop music meta-poll, including Christgau's Dean's List.

Child labour. The Chittagong and Alang shipbreaking yards are where most of the world's commercial shipping go to die. more inside

Ôwych! Wales actually beats another country at rugby. And in other news...

A follow-up to this previous thread on MeFi . For those who believe in Karma I more inside

Help I've been playing with the Donnie Darko website for a few days and I can't figure it out...yes I know I'm a moron. more inside

Please don't kill me for this I just thought this was too funny... (I was searching google for something completely unrelated when I saw these results...) more inside

National Security Archive (George Washington University). A fascinating and newsworthy vault of declassified U.S. government documents covering key items of policy and defense. See original papers on Nixon's China visit in 1972, the Iran crisis of 1979, and bickering over the Rwandan genocide. Don't miss the Top Ten oldest FOIA requests to see secrecy in action. Related MoFi FPP: Cryptome/Cartome.

All that jazz: Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, and Paul Provenza have a new documentary about comedy that, like most works that explore the extremes, helps define an art. Previously referred to here. (NSFW) more inside

Give it Away George! Gmail invites, does anyone still need them? more inside

Curious George: Computer Burp Curious George: My computer decided that since I said good things about it, it had to prove me wrong. more inside

Sweatin' Monkey: Being the worst creative thinker of gifts out there, I am imploring the ever-brainy simians for some help on a Valentine's Day gift for my sweetie. more inside

Creepy head shots. Wait 15 seconds after the page has loaded... Via Blork

Engelbert Humperdinck - SuperSpy Well....not really. The NSA apparently does some training, and although they normally use fictional names, this time they decided to use Engelbert Humperdinck's name. Then the speculation began. more inside

Curious Charles. Trivia question: What couple was together decades ago, married others, split from their spouses, reunited and are wedding the first week in April? Answer: SideDish and her sweetie (April 9) and Prince Charles and Camilla (April 8)! Interesting coincidence, eh? Anyhoo, all you Brit monkeys, how do you feel about Chuck and Cammy finally making it legal?