In 1939, women weren't considered for the Disney training school because they weren't allowed to do creative work on the cartoons. They had to be tracers. [via BB]

According to a new book by Steven Miles based on 35,000 pages of documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, doctors have been helping to torture people at various detention centers under the Bush administration. Techniques include "beating, punching with fists, use of truncheons, kicking, slamming against walls, stretching or suspension to tear ligaments or muscles to cause asphyxia, external electric shocks, forcing prisoners to abase and urinate on themselves, forced renunciation of religion, false confessions or accusations, applying urine and feces to prisoners, making verbal threats to a prisoner and his family, denigration of a prisoner's religion, force feeding, induced hypothermia and exposure to extreme heat, dietary manipulation, use of sedatives, extreme sleep deprivation, mock executions, water immersion, water boarding, obstruction of the prisoner's airway, chest compression, thermal burning, rape, dog bites, sexual abuse, forcing a prisoner to watch the abuse or torture of a loved one." All in our name. [via Rachel Maddow]

The Shake Shack Widget shows the new Shake Shack webcam on your OS X dashboard. [via Eyebeam]

XHTMLized is a service that you can send a design to and they'll turn it into xhtml / css for $149. This looks like a tremendous time saver for non-experts like me. [via plasticbag]

What do you get when you mix AJAX with Flash to let Flash grab all the information that's usually dependent on the browser? FJAX. It's lighter, more platform independent, more browser independent, and cleaner than traditional AJAX.

Stephen Colbert interviews anti-feminist nutjob Caitlin Flanagan with jaw-dropping results.

If you have a Wacom tablet, now you can use it for music production too. This looks really exciting.

NY1 argues that viewers aren't stupid. In the user-selected news program on the network, the most chosen stories were about terrorism and transit, not Brangelina.

Check out these Back to the Future 2 replica Nikes. I'm pretty sure Allyson will need these.

Pitchfork presents 100 Awesome Music Videos, complete with YouTube links. There are so many awesome videos here, I'd recommend grabbing a Firefox extension that will allow you to save these. Just sayin'. They're out there.

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