Too Indigent To Quit? MC Hammer is back, grabbing a hold of that new "internet" thing, taking on YouTube with a dance video website (coming soon -- get your videos ready!). more inside

Questioning the banality of evil. "Until recently, there has been a clear consensus amongst social psychologists, historians and philosophers that everyone succumbs to the power of the group and hence no one can resist evil once in its midst. But now, suddenly, things don’t seem quite so certain." (Via.)

Cook (almost) anything at least once. This is where I go when I'm not sure what to kick over the next week or three.

Can a study of Rhesus Macaque monkey behaviour determine how far back in evolutionary time the "ability to impute thoughts and intentions to another individual" developed? more inside