Sunday Linkdump: August 17, 2008

“In 1976, Cos­mo­naut Niko­lai Peck­mann was sent alone to an orbi­ting space sta­tion for what would be called Mis­sion Six– to study the radia­tion levels and strange cir­cums­tan­ces that killed all four crew­men of the last research mission.”

That “Mal­we­bo­lence” article: The ori­gi­nal article; at least 1, 2, 3 see­mingly authen­tic 4chan-member com­ments on a NYT blog post about the article; NYT’s blog-response-tracking page for the article; 1, 2 Gaw­ker posts about the article; author Mat­tathias Schwartz’s res­ponse to some res­pon­ses; and a final analy­sis on The NYT blog “The Medium.”

Beat­les musi­co­logy.

West Vir­gi­nia speaks out about Obama: “I don’t like the ‘Hus­sein’ thing. I’ve had enough of ‘Hussein.’”

Adbus­ters tries to be insight­ful about hips­ters; peo­ple res­pond.

A day in brands. It looks like she has a pretty good life?

Some­body at Comedy Cen­tral reads Kate Bea­ton?

USS — a port­fo­lio of pro­ba­bi­li­ties. Inci­den­tally used for the cover of a Danava album.

A modest pro­po­sal for something we might come to call “Cas­ca­ding Style Sheets.”

Baby car logos.

The impor­tance of smell.

Con­tem­po­rary stars mimic clas­sic Hitch­cock moments.