Top 10:

1. BP Oil Spill Effects:  Health and Wildlife | (The Nation and Al Jazeera)
2. Walk the Prank: Secret Story of Mysterious Portrait at Pentagon | (WSJ)
3. The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality | (Slog)
4. Near death, explained | (Salon)
5. Can gold be used as a currency? (w/ Video) | (Felix Salmon)
6. Surge of the ‘Second World’ | (National Interest)
7. South L.A., Twenty Years After the Riots | (Guernica)
8. FRACKED UP!: Hollywood,Interrupted Visits America’s New Boomtown
9. (Bee) Colony Collapse Disorder and Pesticides | (New Yorker)
10. African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes | (Youtube)

And the rest:

1. The Economics of a Part-time Drug Dealer | (The Billfold)
2. The Perfect Milk Machine: How Big Data Transformed the Dairy Industry | (Atlantic)
3. How recruiters look at your resume
4. Creepy Finance Guy With Spreadsheet of Match.com ‘Prospects’ Says He Was Just Trying to Be Organized
5. Space Shuttle in Extreme Detail: Exclusive New Pictures
6. CIA’s Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies’ Cover | (Wired)
7. Saudi princess: What I’d change about my country (BBC)
8. What They Don’t Tell You at Graduation | (WSJ)
9. Our Emotional Styles | (DailyDish)
10. The Legendary Paul Ryan | (Chait)
11. In Conversation: Barney Frank | (NYMag)
12. Diabetes: Myself, quantified | (Extenuating Circumstances)
13. Peak Plastic
14. Gamer Harassment | (Penny Arcade)
15. Tor Books goes completely DRM-free – Boing Boing http://bit.ly/Ia48Hc

Top5:

1. What Isn’t for Sale? | (Atlantic)
2. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs | (NYT)
3. SXSW 2012: ‘Seeking Asian Female‘ Explores World of Mail-Order Brides | (WSJ)
4. No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart | (PopSci)
5. Atomic Bread Baking at Home: The story of white grocery bread

And the rest:

1. Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life
2. A world within a tumour – new study shows just how complex cancer can be | (Discover)
3. What We Lose in a Post-PC World
4. 2012 – eVolo Visions of future skyscrapers | (ArchMag)
5. The New Suburban Poverty | (NYT)
6. The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth | (Atlantic)
7. Minimum Rage: Will Gen Y’s Career Waiters Occupy the Service Industry? | (GOOD)
8. BBall Shooting Stats: CourtVision by Kirk Goldsberry
9. Scientific Hubris:  Why Monsanto Thought Weeds Would Never Defeat Roundup | (NPR)
10. Nazi rules for jazz performers | (Boing)
11. Resume, Cover Letter And Your Facebook Password? | (NPR)
12. Dear Science Fiction Writers: Stop Being So Pessimistic! | (Smithsonian)
13. Drive-by harassment: I’m fourteen, running late for Global Studies….
14. Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago member of Anonymous
15. Spread Reckoning: U.S. Suburbs Face Twin Perils of Climate Change and Peak Oil [Excerpt] | (SciAm)
16. Search for Faster, Better Antidepressants Makes Progress: | (SciAm)

And one for awesomeness.  Coloring Bach: as played and seen by Evan Shinners, who has synesthesia

I’m back!  My apologies for the extremely lengthy radio silence.  Life has been quite busy and the task of updating html by hand proved enough of a hassle for me to drop the website.  Hopefully switching over to wordpress will lower the activation energy enough for me to post on a more consistent basis.  Please bear with the spartan furnishings for now.  Shininess will be added once this blog gets a little more definition.  For now, it’s just good to be back.

~Harold