In a project called National Jukebox, the Library of Congress is making thousands of recordings from 1901 to 1925 available online. Here are nine of the best. 

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The Navy Seals’ codename for Osama Bin Laden was “Geronimo,” and American Indians are understandably upset.

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Mother Jones chronicles 33 years of Newt Gingrich’s extreme rhetoric.

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National Post has published two excerpts from Jonathan Kay’s Among the Truthers, a book on the paranoid culture of conspiracy theorists. The first excerpt examines the long influence of The Protocols of Zion, and the second shows the internet as an echo chamber effect for crackpots.

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Noam Chomsky weighs in on Osama bin Laden’s death.

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Facebook’s smear campaign against Google…and apparently they did it because they were worried about privacy issues. Now that’s rich.

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It looks like Superman is pro-immigration, saying, “That’s the idea that America was founded on, but it’s not just for the people born here, it’s for everyone.”

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Ever wished you could watch a lightning storm in slow motion? Well, here’s your chance.

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If you like cliffhangers, check out this vertigo-inducing Al Jazeera report on a perilous mountain trucking route in Pakistan.

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In Dallas, an expensive attempt to re-engineer river rapids has gone horribly wrong.

The most iconic images of the Great Depression passed through Dorothea Lange's camera. These days you can't help but see the ghosts of Lange's portraits in photos and video footage from the darkest corners of the current economic crisis. Clinical Psychologist and blogger Michael Shaw makes a dreadfully direct link, blogging at the always compelling BAGnewsNotes about a series of tent city photos taken in Sacramento, California, the same city where Lange took photos like these:

Compare those shots to this photograph of Karen Hersh, an out of work truck driver, cleaning her Sacramento tent city home several decades later.

The online magazine Slate has invited readers to submit photographs from the economic crisis to its Flickr page, and Lange is there too. A standout of the submissions so far is this photograph of a tent pitched on a blighted corner of Portland, Oregon.

In Slate's call for photographs, they lay out the challenge of photographing this new depression: "You can't take a photograph of a collateralized debt obligation."

Sources: BAGnewsNotes, Slate, Library of Congress 

Images by Dorothea Lange