myth busting Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin
bizarre competitions Wolfing down scalding hot biscuits and other weird contests from 1897 Mark Frauenfelder
Business Ikea locked workers into a room and forced them to watch "scaremongering" anti-union powerpoints Cory Doctorow
books Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood – exclusive excerpt Mark Frauenfelder
News Syria: internet services shut down as protesters fill streets for "Children's Friday" Xeni Jardin
Weird Crazy Contraband: photo gallery of weird confiscated stuff, including drugs and critters Xeni Jardin