Headlines from February 23, 2010

Denmark introduces harrowing new tourism ads directed by Lars Von Trier.
Profile of a McDonald's chef.
Rendering of table objects after a dinner party: both absurdist theater and a study in user experience.
Pictures of an abandoned Japanese island.
Winning photographs and illustrations from the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
Why you're better off winning a bronze medal than a silver: upward thoughts.
Website where you can rate churches and comment on service quality.
See also: Organ plays websites.
The making of Raging Bull as a story of Scorcese's bleeding, Scorcese's anger, and De Niro doing more than eating.
Brief account of calling Hunter S. Thompson.
Notes on the myth of Altman, and how he exploited it.
Researchers say nine-year-olds can tell the difference between irony and sarcasm, they just can't explain it.
Study finds that email addicts check messages at weddings, funerals, and during "intimate moments."
Why African coups are begun by colonels: They've got enough power, not enough money.
The great crisis of the mid-21st century will be a war between the United States and a fearsome Turkish-Japanese alliance.
France's air-traffic controllers begin week-long strike to protest integration with other European workers.
Instapaper for the commute: Management techniques learned from the Grateful Dead.
Sting roasted for playing a private concert "specifically designed to glorify a barbarous regime."
Snoop Dogg suprised and baffled by the "unusual lengths" U.K. border officials have pursued to keep him away.
Op: Engineers make better terrorists because they can tolerate uncertainty.
Profile of Lanham, Md., visited by Obama twice in two weeks.
Interview with Chris Jordan about his pictures of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
See also: Gallery of Jordan's numbers in pictures and an interview with Nicole Pasulka.
Ellen Langer, responsible for "mindfulness," has made her research into a worldview.
Video: Band I Am Un Chien turns Chatroulette session into a music video.
On the mysteries of bipolar spieces: Invertebrates found at both ends of the globe and nowhere else.
3D printing goes bio: producing simple tissues for research purposes.
Excerpt from the McSweeney's newspaper, in which a playright/attorney learns bankruptcy law on the web.