Ben Stocking on Hoang Thuy Linh’s online sex tape:

But for many in communist Vietnam, new ideas about free love are much harder to accept than the free market. And unlike men, women who break the old sexual taboos are not easily forgiven.

Vassar homepage gets a warm, welcoming look from Tim Brown.

“A High School Under the Hood“:

Ms. Silberman tells the students she does not want to hear hardship sob stories. She was born in the Pink Houses, a public housing project in Brooklyn, and managed to graduate from Vassar College.

A comic game runs by Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter. The rules are simply:

Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.

Via Tim

NPR profiles Red Norvo:

Credited with bringing the xylophone, formerly a vaudeville instrument, into jazz, Red Norvo was a sideman with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman. Norvo led one of the most admired bands of the Swing era, and he served as a catalyst for the career of musicians whose ranks include Charles Mingus. While Red received acclaim throughout his life, his innovations on the mallet instruments were far ahead of his time.

Like always, check out the program.

Canadian chick sings southern Vietnamese folk songs. Truong Ky did a program on Doiron. I appreciate her effort.

Peculiarly funny customs and behavoirs of Vietnamese culture brought to you by TTBlue.

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 only cost $1,192,057.00. Not so bad!

Blender’s The 40 Worst Lyricists In Rock includes Common at 36 and Sting on the number 1 spot.

Beautiful portfolio of Ekaterina Erschowa