Our website is currently down following a hacking attempt (presumably by Jungians).

— Freud Museum London (@FreudMusLondon) May 21, 2013

London's Freud Museum is in a… spot of bother.

@freudmuslondon @mrjohnofarrell Not "hacked" but "penetrated".

— Ms Slide (@sliderulesyou) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon Melanie Klein's distributed denial of "difficult conversations" attack?

— Alex (@blangry) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon from the error code, looks more like "His host has become ‘uncanny’ to him" to me…. (hope you're back up & running soon)

— Danny Birchall (@dannybirchall) May 21, 2013

@freudmuslondon You know what else is down? The subconscious. [...]

Christmas crackers—traditional British holiday mini-pinatas that, when pulled apart, frequently contain tiny, crappy toys and a terrible joke (older American readers might recall the Dixie cups of their youth for comparative purposes)—just got a little easier to make… THANKS TO THE MACHINES.

From the Penny Illustrated Paper, deep in the bowels of the British Library, comes this 100-year-old nugget about the relations between the classes.

It's once more into the breach with David Sedaris. “I don’t think David ever posed himself as a journalist,” said Torey Malatia, who heads Chicago Public Media, which produces “This American Life.” “He’s a storyteller, a humorist. The giveaway is when he’s wildly exaggerating. It’s art. It’s fiction.”

See? Quit your complaining. You're just supposed to know when he's lying and when he isn't. "It’s acknowledged that he’s making things up," says a visiting journalism professor in Las Vegas! See? It's just acknowledged. If you don't get "the giveaway," it's because you're not a coastal elite with a finely tuned ear for lies and not lies. Also [...]

Been Caught Joke Stealing, or, There Is More Than One Reason to Dislike Carlos Mencia.

Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era: A Syllabus

David Rakoff has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor, a stunning (and overdue) choice, in that no one has a sense of humor anymore. Have you read his lastest, Half Empty, in which he goes in hard against Rent and much much more? The dashing Mr. Rakoff is the second homosexualist to win the prize.

Looking at the best work of Zach Kanin and Farley Katz, the youngest staff cartoonists in New Yorker history.