Ed Kohler has some advice for how to pick a security line at the airport, at The Deets.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright takes on the rethinking of NATO, Politico reports. 

Experts blame the rise in deadly DUIs among young women on the death of femininity, writes Tracy Clark-Flory at Broadsheet.

John Aravosis at AmericaBlog blogs on a disturbing Facebook page honoring Joseph Andrew Stack, who crashed his small aircraft into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas on Thursday.

Pixlmonster has published an informative, and only slightly disgusting, infographic featuring facts about poop.

Report says "shocking" hikes in health-insurance premiums are coming, Huffington Post reports.

Facebook has overtaken Yahoo as the second-most-visited website in the United States, notes Ben Parr at mashable. 

Next Generation Healthcare has published an infographic depicting the global burden of Tuberculosis.

President Obama will name former Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson to lead a commission to tackle the federal debt, the Wall Street Journal reports.

"To his lasting disgrace," writes Joe Conason at Salon, Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh is departing elected office as a witting accomplice of the GOP's strategy.

hug_machine has posted a cuuuute neuroscience study guide featuring kitties! (via)

After losing his lower jaw and his ability to speak, TV movie critic Roger Ebert is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped, writes Chris Jones in an Esquire profile. 

Notes Eric Zimmermann of The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: "Joe the Plumber is no longer a fan of either Sarah Palin or John McCain, it seems." 

Get a brain morans! Urlesque has compiled 30 unintentionally hilarious political signs. (via)

Andrew Cohen blogs on why New Yorkers really oppose a 9/11 terror trial.

Google has responded to anger over its Buzz social network with an apology and second round of privacy-related changes, writes David Coursey in PC World.

Take a photograph of a setting, then create and add a monster, and send it to Monsters in Real Places. (via)

The Rochester Post-Bulletin’s Political Party blog tries to straighten out the confusion over Chatfield’s Potter Auditorium and the “pottery center” that Gov. Tim Pawlenty went after. (via)

Muriel Kane at Raw Story reports Tea Partiers are upset over their unflattering representation in a recent issue of Marvel Comics' Captain America.

ListVerse has compiled 10 fascinating international "facts" that are wrong.

Delta Airlines is bringing big jets back to Duluth as it adds two flights to and from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport each day, reports Candace Renalls in the Duluth News Tribune.

Critics of Minneapolis' planned artful fountains are all wet, says Charlie Quimby at Across the Great Divide.

Justin Van Genderen has designed six minimalist travel posters featuring planets from the Star Wars films. (via | via)

Brian Montopoli shares White House spokesman Robert Gibbs' Palinesque palm notes at CBS' Political Hotsheet.

Don Peck of the Atlantic says we’re entering an era of high joblessness that will change of lives of young adults.

USA Today has an application that shows how much money is taken out of one's salary for federal taxes, and how that money gets spent.

In making the fight against childhood obesity her signature cause, first lady Michelle Obama "has chosen to tackle a seemingly intractable problem that has thwarted experts for the past two decades," writes Marian Burros at Politico.

Federal officials have unveiled a multipronged attack to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, the Wall Street Journal reports.

io9 has posted photos from astronauts Twittering in space.

Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker finds meaning in last night’s Super Bowl.