Jon Ronson is one of our favorite journalists -- he wrote a very good book about extremists called Them, one of his books was turned into the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, and he's done some great radio stories for This American Life. He's working on an online documentary called Escape and Control, about people who try to control this internet. 

Spencer Ackerman, who writes about National Security for the Washington Independent, has a funny post on his blog predicting the next 72 hours of headlines that Gadhafi's death will spark. Check it out here. 

This is pretty cool. Reporter (and sometime OTM guest host) Rick Karr filmed a short doc about hardware hackers in NYC. 

The concept of hacking entered the American popular imagination through a fairly unlikely medium – the Hollywood blockbuster. Specifically, the 1983 film Wargames, about a high school hacker whose computer tampering nearly starts a nuclear war.

I’m not sure how I found it in the first place, but the image that I most often think about when I think about September 11^th was shot by a photographer named Melanie Einzig on the morning of the attacks. She didn't publish it for years because she was worried it would offend people.

A clip of Christine O’Donnell, former US Senate candidate and Tea Partier, walking out during an interview with Piers Morgan has been making the rounds online. Who wins when a guest walks out?