There are those who say that leaving ironic product reviews on Amazon is proof that we have ultimately failed in our haphazard pursuit of a higher purpose, but those people would be wrong. What was Jonathan Swift's famous op-ed about eating dead Irish babies if not a proto-Amazon review done in irony? Is the Book of Revelation anything more than a parody of Roman imperial politics and luxury obsession? Anyway, here's a Playmobil playset that Amazon doesn't even sell, and the Freedom Writers are leaving some very biting fake reviews that are probably really more about their unhappiness with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.

"If Hollywood had a bad summer at the Box Office, I think we can all agree that was because Green Lantern sucked, not that 'David After Dentist' was so good on YouTube that we all stayed home." —What happens when all books are free, as they are at Baltimore's The Book Thing?

Lynette Fromme is getting out of prison in the next few days! (She produced an unloaded gun and pulled the trigger while pointing it in the vicinity of a U.S. President, before you were born.) We have so much to teach her about life here on the outside about the last 30 years. Man, she is going to crap her pants when she sees an iPhone. (Or, you know, a sandwich that isn't bologna.)

"Many of the crocodiles have been recaptured, but more than half are still on the loose." —Some 15,000 crocodiles escaped a crocodile farm in South Africa after the human owner opened the gates last weekend to prevent a storm surge during heavy rains. That's a lot of crocodiles! These lovable creatures have been unfairly besmirched by their association with horrible footwear in recent years, and also by two guys from San Diego who write some nice songs but are far too derivative of Glasgow's forever awesomer and underrated Jesus and Mary Chain.

Everyone thinks that Aung San Suu Kyi will be released from her long-time confinement. But no one knows why they think that—and this in a country largely without a free Internet. One politico does claim that sources tell him she'll be freed. So this sort of communication happens natively to people in general, not just in over-teched societies. Also, Jeff Goldblum is still alive.