
Morning Roundup: From The Washington Post: Rhee dismisses 241 D.C. teachers; union vows to contest firings D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A....

Toronto's mysterious street art activists have a new campaign: Get the city to connect it's bike lanes so they're actually useful.

The sheer audacity of the officer is shocking; he cavalierly disregards—and breaks—the law he's sworn to uphold.

We're pretty sure a PSA isn't going to help stop suicide bombing, but it never hurts to try, right? Especially if you throw a lot of special...
by Anonymous

We all should have suspected, but now it has been confirmed. Eating tofu makes you gay. Don't argue. It's fact. God told us.

Alyssa Wright's Cherry Blossoms project is a sobering piece of mobile protest art.

A Los Angeles-based nonprofit is using the weapons of war to clean up battlefields.

It's like losing an old friend. Google has fixed their algorithim so that when one googles "miserable failure" the first result is no longer...

Scientists are hard at work on efforts to create environmentally friendly bombs. At first it sounds like an oxymoron-at least that's what...

So, the U.S. military has recently introduced a new preemptive tactic in the war on terror: Giving cows to the widows of Iraqis we've killed....

When The Guardian got its hands on the 91,000 secret Afghanistan war documents released by WikiLeaks, it began using event logs to create a...

Reuters has compiled a list of the best and worst jobs for coming year. How many different ways can you say teacher?
Best Jobs in 2010:
1....

CareerCast has released its updated list of the 200 best and worst jobs. Software engineers are in luck. Roustabouts are not.

There is a very interesting op-ed in the Times today (complete with handy chart by our friend Rob Di Ieso, Jr.) about applying game theory to...

All a joke? So says ever-reliable reporter Matt Drudge. It was too ultra-conservative kids trying to trick the not-so-openly gay Foley into outing...
by Anonymous

The Congress for the New Urbanism just released a list of ten "Freeways without Futures." They're America's most disruptive, wrong-headed, unsafe...

Transportation for America released a new study on which U.S. cities are most dangerous for pedestrians. If you're going for a stroll in Florida,...

The Daily Beast put together a list of America's 75 worst commutes. They based their order on the peak hour Travel Time Index-a "measure of how...

The curious tradition of bad baby names, from Mann Pigg to Tu Morrow. One of many things I can thank my parents for is my name. “Mark” is...

GOOD investigates the bastardization of the burrito.