New in the quirky single topic blog department: a blog that runs away with the observation that a lot of the people in photographs from local newspapers are scowling. Welcome to Angry People In Local Newspapers. (more...)

VIDEO Salon's excellent 3-part series on Glenn Beck's Zoo Crew roots has restored a lot of focus to the impact that Glenn Beck's instincts as an entertainer have on his political stances. Google News Spotlight, an automatic aggregator which highlights heavily linked-to and debated articles from across the blogosphere, has placed the article near the top of its feed; it's also gotten a ton of play on Metafilter. The Salon series has also had a hand in making a viral phenomenon out of this zany 1986 TV ad for Beck's radio show, which involves balloons, cuckoo clocks, and a chimp named Zippy. Yes, this is actually real. Observe: (more...)

The New York Times has pulled down a photo slide show from its website after some zealous bloggers over at Metafilter lobbed charges of Photoshopping at the paper. (more...)