"Friends, not family, are the key to a longer life, a new study suggests." [New Scientist]

Jon Stewart, hilarious, on the last minutes of the MJ trial.

Have I mentioned I heart David Sedaris?

"I've become weirdly obsessed with this photo (NSFW) of Playboy Cyber Girl Jessica Kramer." [MemeFirst]

A gallery of casino carpeting photos: "Many of the carpets use flowers and wheels, both suggestive of a cyclical life: flowers bud, bloom, and then die, and their beauty is only ephemeral." Via kottke.