Dear Kanye … in the spirit of rap therapy like “We’re All In The Same Gang,” I want to share a scene from the 1989 movie “Teen Witch.” This won’t be news—you know the power of hip-hop. This scene, though, really shows how rap can unite us and let us blow off steam without resorting to violence or caps lock.

—I’ve certainly disagreed with Sasha Frere-Jones in the past, but his reference to the single greatest scene in one of the more ridiculous cult classics of all time is probably enough for me to grant him the status of Best Pop Music Critc Ever.

Cognitive dissonance? It’s been a while since I’ve been to Sunday school, but I don’t remember a “thou shalt not ogle busty blondes” - maybe that was in all the red text that I usually just skimmed.

You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it “simulates” the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning—or, rather, being drowned, albeit slowly and under controlled conditions and at the mercy (or otherwise) of those who are applying the pressure. The “board” is the instrument, not the method. You are not being boarded. You are being watered.

—Christopher Hitchens, on the experience of being waterboarded.

What would Richard Feynman do? [via America’s radio sweetheart]

Yahtzee nails it. Again. Replace “web comic” with “blog” and you’re really on to something.

Scamming the true believers

I don’t know how to feel about a group of Republicans duping right-wing idealogues into donating millions of dollars for no-name campaigns and pocketing most of the cash. Just desserts? [via Clusterflock]

the week i had off from facebook was probably one of my best weeks in recent memory. i know it sounds absurd, but not being able to spend hours trolling facebook (during work, on my iphone, at home while watching a movie/tv show/talking to my roommates, before i dozed off to bed) left me with so much time to… read. think. run. write. do nothing. etc. in that week, i realized the extent to which i was addicted to this thing - my virtual world of friends and updates and identity molding… things that, during my week off, i didn’t MISS, but felt relieved to not have to deal with. when taken away from me, this thing i spent so much time with - my facebook reality (it pains me to have to write thos words) - felt so trivial, meaningless and inconsequential.

—Christine, who had her Facebook account overtaken by Ze Frank, on how little she missed the bastard child of Zuckerberg. [via Snarkmarket]

Everything is pretty much run by the engineering - PMs and testers are conspicuously absent from the process.

—Sergey Solyanik, on why he went back to Microsoft after a stint at Google. For clarification, Sergey is saying the dearth of PMs at Google is a bad thing.

A more effecient milk jug throws consumers off

The new design is dramatically more efficient, doesn’t require plastic shipping containers and is even cheaper, but more difficult to use at first. Still, I like the idea of pushing the new design as…

Everyblock adds two new cities, Philadelphia and Charlotte

With some design tweaks and a new listing for libraries. I guess I’m going to have to start sending Adrian weekly shipments of beer and smoked salmon to get Seattle on the list.