If David Lynch directed Dirty Dancing

It’s GPOYAABJT, right? (Gratuitous picture of yourself as a bad joke Tuesday) Once again, doing it wrong [via Sorry I Missed Your Party]

How do I feel about Robert Downey Jr. playing a badass, steampunkified version of Sherlock Holmes? Fine, actually.

But the lettering at the end there should have been mirror imaged - for shame.

New Danger Mouse CD released as a blank CD-R

An unnamed dispute with EMI means the actual CD won’t be released. EMI is, of course, the label that owns the copyright on The White Album and sued to keep The Grey Album from being released.

People with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor

Genetic mutation turned off the ability to make brown eyes, about 6,000 - 10,000 years ago

He is in home territory for sure, no question about it. And that’s where he wants to be. He doesn’t enjoy naysayers and critics and opposition. Never has. And right now, he needs that nurturing cocoon that he is in. He is not calling people who didn’t support him. He is calling people who supported him, those 14-year-olds.

—Bruce Buchanan, a presidential scholar at the University of Texas, on George W. Bush’s new neighborhood.

…behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.

—Cheney’s secure, undisclosed location was a secret hideaway in the VP residence.

Lens, the New York Times' visual journalism blog, looks nice

Clean design that highlights the photos well. I like the forward/backward hinting and the full screen mode in particular.

Newsweek is framing links to external sites/partners with their very own DiggBar

I have no clue if this is a previously agreed upon partnership thing or if they’re treating all external links like this but it looks pretty lame.

The world has spoken and it prefers inflatable gorillas to giant American flags. A commentary on American imperialism, perhaps?