Get the Glass!!!! Absolutely stunning.

Rare Book Room Wow! In particular the site contains: 1. Some of the great books in science, including books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, Darwin and others. 2. Most of the Shakespeare Quartos from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the Edinburgh Library, and the National Library of Scotland. It also contains the First Folio from the Folger Library. 3. The LIbrary of Congress ’ copies of Poor Richard ’s Almanac by Benjiman Franklin. 4. Very rare editions: Gutenberg ’s Bible of 1455, Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Siderius Nuncius, the first printing of the Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta. Wheee! via MetaWhee

Richard Jeni is tragically dead. Picked up from the blue, but posted here because the man who came up with one of the very funniest things I have ever, ever heard deserves to be noted in his passing, and deserved a passing greater than this. more inside

The Failed Attorney-General. Alberto Gonzales said he understood the difference between the job he held — President Bush’s in-house lawyer — and the job he wanted, which was to represent all Americans as their chief law enforcement officer and a key defender of the Constitution. Two years later, it is obvious Mr. Gonzales does not have a clue about the difference. Fighting words from the New York Times.