Encyclopedias, human genomes… YAWN! The internet finally proves it’s good for something, now that classic Mad Magazine fold-ins are online. (Via dad.)

The Harvard Lampoon regularly does “parody” issues, where they spoof another magazine. The Boston Globe reports that their victims are in on the act, to the extent that “USA Today printed the Lampoon’s version on its press in 1989.”

The Globe article centers around the National Geographic spoof hitting newsstands tomorrow; the cover isn’t on the Lampoon’s site yet, but Folio (a publishing industry periodical) has it.

First bees, and now bats. Dear faunæ: We’re trying to stop killing you. Please stop dying. Sincerely, Us.

This primary season has raised many important questions, but a post in the Times blog today raises the most important one yet — how have I been to Texas multiple times without seeing Whiplash, the Cowboy Monkey, a monkey who, dressed in a cowboy costume, rides a border collie?