ART WORKS! This man's work is nothing short of brilliance, and very beautiful.

When design meets food. People have been concerned with the design of food for quite some time. But usually it's just about making something look good. Now the Dutch tradition of conceptual design is coming to the world of food. Not that it doesn't look nice, though.

"We’re still open to the idea of a letter [to the editor], .... but we will not publish a letter that implies any sort of misbehavior by [our reporter] Ms. Flanagan." After the New Yorker published an article on P.K. Travers (the author of Mary Poppins), Victoria Lawson wrote to them pointing out how their reporter had relied heavily on her biography of Travers (and on documentaries based on that biography), and yet made almost no acknowledgement of that fact within her article. more inside

The Royalist Former royal butler Paul Burrell reveals a secret Princess Diana told him two days before she died.

MuppetWiki. Read about everything Jim Henson- and Muppet-related, like The Muppet Show's musical legacy (Alice Cooper, Dizzy Gillespie, and Diana Ross, among others, all hosted episodes), or how Prairie Dawn was one of many "Little Anything Muppets," or the evolution of "Mahna Mahna," or the many international incarnations of Sesame Street. more inside

Curious George: Acoustic Song List? A friend of mine - Joey Joe Jones, Jr.-Shabbadoo? Anyway, he's compiling a list of songs to play on acoustic guitar. Thoughts? more inside

The promise of online dining has been partially fulfilled. If you live in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pensylvania or Illinois, I have a very exciting announcement. Foodler is a big honking list of local restaurants who will deliver food to you (and another list for take-out). Similar things have existed in the past but foodler works really well. Sign up, give them your zip code, choose a place to eat (here in Cambridge MA I can get everything from American to Bangladeshi to Desserts, Italian and Thai) clickey clikey and in half an hour chop stickey! Also has reviews and favorites. Totally awesome if you're lazy. The interface is great, the selection is wonderful, and the restaurants that have signed on really seem to 'get it'. more inside

The Vietnam Syndrome. "In the 1960s, the United States blanketed the Mekong River delta with Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant more devastating than napalm. Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the poisoned legacy lives on in the children whose deformities it is said to have caused." Photo essay by James Nachtwey, written essay by Christopher Hitchens. [Via C&L.]

Mao Removed From History Books Nearly overnight the country's most prosperous schools have shelved the Marxist template that had dominated standard history texts since the 1950s. "The new history is less ideological, and that suits the political goals of today." Pilfered, as a stale crust of bread, from mr_crash_davis and The Blue more inside

Jitsu! Once a day, for 24 hours, we showcase something new and exciting in this beautiful world. Something you may have never seen before. Then it's gone, never to be seen again! It could be new game, an awesome book, a great video—who knows!?? Something that's useful, fun, and hopefully new to you.

Chet Baker Tributes. Today, a new jazz festival starts in T.O. in honour of Chet Baker, to raise funds for a Foundation run by his widow Carol. Also, a biopic will soon come out, even if it can never be as transfixing as the real thing.

Behind the Scenes at Jay-Z's 10th Anniversary Concert Check out Jay-Z's 10th Anniversay Concert, honoring his first album "Reasonable Doubt"

Browzar Surf in complete privacy, thanks to the absence of those really cool "features" that everyone I know turns off anyway. more inside

The Royalist Amusing story about the Queen's cousin and his wife being seated next to the toilets by staff on a cheap easyJet flight from Majorca.

9/11 commemorative coin. Lavishly clad in gleaming silver miraculously recovered from a bank vault found under tons of debris at Ground Zero! May well be among the most historically meaningful collectibles you will ever own!

Airfix kit makers in nosedive after parent company's crash more inside

Drinking juice can help prevent Alzheimer's. So drink yer juiceys monkeys. But also further to the cool, recent discussion on scientific method, this is an example of press coverage of science. How good is it? more inside

Overheard at the beach.

15 Aliens found working for U.S. military contractor in Roswell, NM more inside

Grackles - Common Grackles, Grackle facts, The Great-Tailed Grackle Mysteries, Grackle Whacked, and the Great Grackle Migration. more inside