Predictably, Jon Stewart's Daily Show take on the Wikileaks/Manning/Assange/Lamo/AfghanMegaDump telenovela is spot-on, revelatory, and required internet viewing (though folks outside the USA are SOL, as it's region-blocked).

Offbeat British comedy duo Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, creators of "Look Around You," speak to us about their absurdist fake-educational science program

"[I]n rushing to declare what the war logs are not, many in the media have been quick to pass over what they are. Or, at the very least, what they… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks: A counter-argument to the "nothing to see here" crowd

Created by DeviantArt user Gamefan84, who says all that needs to be said: "Craziest request ever: Chewie riding a giant cute squirrel chasing down Nazis. He needs long flowing fur… Read the rest of the article: Chewbacca fights Nazis while riding mutant squirrel

"To use an analogy here, as opposed to arresting the guy who broke into your home, we've arrested the guy that gave him the crowbar, the map and the best… Read the rest of the article: FBI nabs "Iserdo" the 23-yr-old Slovenian "Botnet" bandit

Wired writer and Danger Room blog editor Noah Shachtman has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today cautioning those who dive in to the Wikileaks Afghan war logs to… Read the rest of the article: Noah Shachtman on Afghan War Diaries: caveat lector

Susannah Breslin has posted a new story to The War Project website, her independent online project featuring first-person stories of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Every as-told-to story is based… Read the rest of the article: The War Project, continued: an interview with Sgt. George Zubaty

Jess Bachman, infographic designer extraordinaire, shares this new work which shows how Glenn Beck "uses his influence to peddle dubious information and endorse fraudulent companies, and how how those companies… Read the rest of the article: Glenn Beck's gold-investment scam/scheme: an explanatory infographic

By artist Scott Marr, who is based in Australia: "Records revert to time." Carved record and ochre, 25cm. View more from this series of artwork. He explains that these are… Read the rest of the article: Intricately carved vintage vinyl records

Boing Boing reader Kumar Corcoran did this sweet Photoshop of a well-armed Lord Jesus. I blogged a crappy, low-res copy found on a third-hand image hosting website months ago, and… Read the rest of the article: Sniper Jesus

The long-term effects of this week's Afghan mega-leak from Wikileaks remain to be seen. But a mere 48 hours after the docs dropped, our government doesn't appear any less eager… Read the rest of the article: House okays $59B emergency war bill, most for Afghanistan buildup

Last night's episode of The Rachel Maddow Show (solidly guest-hosted by Chris Hayes of The Nation) focused largely on the Afghanistan war documents leaked on Sunday by Wikileaks. I joined… Read the rest of the article: Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Wikileaks and "Afghan War Diaries"

Allen S. Rout posted some cute pictures of his infant son Stephen ten years ago, one of them with the caption, "We're really blessed. Stephen is an amazingly happy baby."… Read the rest of the article: "My son is a meme?"

Among the tens of thousands of classified documents released this week by Wikileaks is evidence the US military in Afghanistan is repeating a PR blunder that led to trouble in… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks megadump reveals US pays local Afghan media to run psyops

Pantsless videocreeps (and anyone who puts a premium on privacy), beware: Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy recently announced on the official Chatroulette company blog that they've been logging data about users:… Read the rest of the article: Put your pants back on: Chatroulette logging IP addresses, screengrabbing users

According to this new "Indexing and retrieval of blogs" entry in the U.S. Patents database, Google has just today received protection for searching blogs.

F.A.T.'s new "Google Alarm" browser addon alerts you with sound and visual notification whenever your personal information is being sent to Google servers. Gmail and YouTube gather some user data,… Read the rest of the article: "Google Alarm" browser plugin alerts you when any of your personal data sent to Google

"In addition to those spoken in the 15 countries that have had representatives aboard the space station, American Sign Language, or ASL, is now included. NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson… Read the rest of the article: Astronaut sends first message in sign language from orbit

Dinohoodies. In addition to proper dinosaurs, the line includes World of Warcraft Murlocs, as shown above. (via Submitterator).

A young woman who appeared in a "Girls Gone Wild" video at 20 years of age, without her consent, has lost a lawsuit which claimed the video damaged her reputation.… Read the rest of the article: Woman who appeared in "Girls Gone Wild" without consent loses court case