If you don’t watch what you blog about your mirror is gonna find out…

Lots of really excellent stuff here, of all different kinds.

Salvador Dali’s Sacra Biblia. Phenomenally ace. Go look at these!!! You can surf around here and here. Via Disputations.

Ebert: We spend too much time hiding illness:

…I was told photos of me in this condition would attract the gossip papers. So what?

I have been very sick, am getting better and this is how it looks.

more (via Amy Welborn)

David Kaiser on prison rape:

…DeParle writes, “Since 1980 the murder rate inside prisons has fallen more than 90 percent, which should give pause to those inclined to think that prisons are impossible to reform.” We could similarly reduce the incidence of rape in prison.

We know how. To some extent, stopping prisoner rape is simply an issue of better prison management. In facilities where the chief official cares about it, and ensures that his or her subordinates take it seriously, rates of sexual abuse go down dramatically. This is accomplished by, for example, providing vulnerable inmates with nonpunitive protective housing at their request, and establishing confidential complaint systems that encourage inmates to report sexual violence without increasing their risk of future assault or retaliation, from any party.

Perhaps the most important thing detention facilities can do is employ classification systems that effectively separate likely rape victims from likely sexual predators. … But no matter what the architecture, effective surveillance of inmates is essential, and meaningful rehabilitative programs such as GED courses—leading to the equivalent of a high school diploma—which used to be much more common in American prisons than they are now, have been shown to reduce all sorts of violence.

more–please read (via The Corner)

British dialect and accent map, with sound links. Also via The Corner.

Cultural Revolution kitsch. Also via TC. It’s like a cookie jar of evil.

Ravens play wild boar rodeo. That is not a metaphor! Via Ratty.