--Scientists rethink the collapse of Easter Island society. Spoiler: It wasn't just environmentally rapacious islanders, but the rats they brought along. [via ptdr] --Anil Dash gathers the best of Zidane Headbutt spin-offs, "dedicated to the head-first fight against alleged racism, the grand tradition of ridiculous memes on the net, and the premise that "Yakety Sax" is always funny."
--Here is another entry to compliment the two earlier links in my ad-hoc Scalar Series: take a look at the atom and relative size of proton versus electron.
--The concept book for the Seattle Public Library, where the vision was introduced: "to redefine / reinvent the Library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store, where all media - new and old - are presented under a regime of new equalities." I'm not sure about the actual content, but it certainly came out beautifully. [via ic]