Links for you. Science:
Great Moments in Deceptive Graphs
Life and death of GFAJ-1
A second case of meat farming
The Unexamined Society (broken clocks and all that...)
Other:
Ah Well. Never Bet Against Applebee's Salad Bars
Suddenly tone matters (personally, I'm willing to admit that the approach is context-dependent)
Frankly, atheists, skeptics, you're embarrassing as fuck
Job Satisfaction, Education, and the Hedonic Treadmill
Extremes of Craziness: Bernard-Henri Lévy explains why you're wrong about Dominique Strauss-Kahn (the title is snarky)
Don't try taking pictures at Frog Pond (apparently, taking a picture of someone else's child in public now makes you a pedophile)
Where The Money Went
The Risks--and Potential Rewards--of Pre-K 'Testing'
John Mackey: The Death of a Football and Union Legend