Greg A. Brown

It’s pretty awesome.

(via We Make Money Not Art)

There’s a new trend of copying portions of other people’s profiles (on Facebook, Myspace, etc.) in an attempt to seem more interesting or articulate. It’s easier online, although not quite a new phenomenon. Every once in a while you’ll meet a one-upper: someone who will take your hobbies and interests and do them too, only in a more extreme fashion in an attempt to impress you and others.

1. build a giant labyrinth of tunnels under my house. Essay penned by the wonderful author behind BLDGBLOG.

I’ll figure out everything else once I get that done.

Charles Taylor ordered his soldiers to eat the enemy as to cause fear amongst the population. Whoa.

… but not enough to take up smoking. Luckily, Brand New has the hookup with the new Camel pack designs!

The NY Times on how mental health is joining public health as an outlet to improve living standards in developing nations, spawned by the realization that maladies like depression aren’t just “diseases of the affluent.”