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The people of America have spoken. I asked for the Most Conservative Product in the U S of A and you responded with enough guns to outfit an Idaho militia and enough Depends undergarment jokes to make a grown man sigh into his keyboard. Let's put on our Rodney Atkins CD, brew up some Folger's coffee, call in the dogs, turn up the gas fire, and ...

Glenn Beck brandishes a Moleskine, and a thousand amateur sociologists bloom. Your responses to my request for ''the most liberal product in the land'' were nuanced and hilarious and often personally insulting. (Nope, I don't hate America, nor do I wet my bed.) Let's run down the list and arrive at the No. 1 liberal product! Fifth ...

The site Moleskinerie is dedicated to all things Moleskine, the iconic black notebook of Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso. (These notebooks are also something that white people like.) Typical posts include a sighting of a Moleskine in The Da Vinci Code movie or a hack that involves carving out a Moleskine so that it holds three smaller ...

When Paula Abdul typed the tweet heard around the world, we asked Slate's resident Idol-ologist, Kathy Meizel, to send us her thoughts:  My jaw, and my stomach, dropped when I read about Paula Abdul's departure from American Idol. I'm much more upset over it than I would have imagined. (I've just had to go back and change all the verbs ...

  I stumbled across the amazing site of the Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader this afternoon. It opens with a full-frame version of Ader's short film piece ''i'm too sad to tell you.'' I asked Slate designer Vivian Selbo how this effect was pulled off. She told me it's a Flash movie sized to fill the browser window. (If you resize ...

As the latest Harry Potter movie comes rumbling into theaters tomorrow, I wonder: What major best-selling book has Hollywood somehow not adapted? Let's go to the Internet for a debatable list of best-selling books. The first five are the Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao, the Quran, Xinhua Zidian (a Chinese dictionary), and the ...

For those of you on the island of people who actually like to read stuff on the Web, point yourself toward Readability. The original post describes it best: Imagine a ''Peace & Quiet'' button on your browser. Readability strips away all the ads and links and visual clutter and leaves you with a minimalist igloo of text. It makes the Web appear ...

Take a look at this great Kenneth Koch poem, rendered in kinetic typography: Can you have love, work, and friends? Koch maintains that only 2 out of 3 are possible to have. I can't argue with that, though Facebook can help a bit.

Mike: What is your reaction to M.J.'s death?Susan: In 1983, at the peak of Thriller fever, my father said, ''He'll never be as big as Elvis.''Mike: Your dad may be right. For me, M.J. is associated with watching MTV. They showed his videos every 20 minutes. I still think gangland battles are fought in the manner of ''Beat It.''Susan: I learned ...

Two artists get their revenge on sticky notes by turning them into short films:     Where will the next office-supply masterpiece come from? I've got my money on binder clips.