From Kottke.org:
Banksy Hits New York’s Most Famous Museums. The installation of unauthorized art into some of the top museums in NYC.
Dot-Con Job. A Seattle Times investigation into InfoSpace, a high-flying dot com that bilked investors out of millions.
13 things that do not make sense. A list of open scientific questions.
Life on the Scales. About the quarter-power scaling laws.
More here. And here are the runners up:
Bad to the Last Drop. On bottled water.
Why do McDonald’s customers order smaller Cokes at the drive-thru window?
Not a Word. About intentional fake words in dictionaries.
Redemption. The NY Yankees and redemption.
My Outsourced Life. A.J. Jacobs outsources his life to India.
More here. [NOTE: the penultimate link is to an essay by Jed Palmer at 3QD!]