Ayn Rand's Literature of Capitalism, from The New York Times.

The War as They Saw It, from Slate. Also Lost Voices: Why the deaths of Yance T. Gray and Omar Mora are particularly galling, from Slate.

The Magnificent Seven: Soldiers pen a jaw-dropping NYT op-ed about the war in Iraq, from Slate. Also: The War as We Saw It, from The New York Times.

Lobes of Steel, from The New York Times.

Thank God, This Will Only Get Worse, from The New York Times.

Making a Mark with Rockets and Roadsters, from NPR.

American Leadership and War, from Maps of War.

China Drinks Its Milk, from the BBC, courtesy of Heather.

How a fake word from The Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string theory paper, from Scientific American, courtesy of Heather.

The Real Dr. House, from Discover magazine.

Pack mentality: Cut deals with the enemy, maximize liquidity, punish the welshers, and other free-market lessons of the typical bike race, from Fortune.

Oscar the cat predicts patients' deaths, from The Boston Globe.

For Athletes, an Invisible Traffic Hazard, from The New York Times. Sigh.

The Story of Roy, from Crazy Aunt Purl.

The Devil Wears Microsoft?

Cycling's Biggest Dopes: A reader's guide to the new Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis books, from Slate.

Flight of the Conchords. Wow. Just wow.

The connection: When Ken met Emira, they changed each other's worlds, from The Boston Globe, courtesy of Robin. Great story.

Freakonomics: Payback Time, from The New York Times.

The Cat Blog... Pippy Style.

Rocky II, III, IV Decisions Overturned After Stallone Caught With Performance-Enhancing Drugs, from The Onion, courtesy of Brad M.

The Difference Between Boys and Girls, from Fat Cyclist.

Plastic Ocean: Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?, from Best Life.

In Tennessee, Goats Eat the ‘Vine That Ate the South’, from The New York Time.

Why Chinese is So Damn Hard, from Pinyin, courtesy of Kevin.

President Bush Reaches Out to Nation's Fallen Bees, from The Onion Radio News, courtesy of Heather.