People jumping on beds in hotels.

Three-year-old Mo Kin playing the xylophone.

You must watch this commercial featuring gorgeous, enormous kinetic sculptures. It will make your dreams better.

• A small selection of artists who use books as a medium.
• Tom Bendtsen’s structures made of books.
• Patrick Ng is making his own perfect little notebook.

Current sexual teachings of religious groups. It’s good to be Buddhist.

In other news, I haven’t been pregnant in over a year, and maternity thongs still make me want to punch someone in the nads.

I just finished reading “The Atrocity Files: Deciphering the Archives of Guatemala’s Dirty War” (subscriber-only link), an amazing article in Dec. 2007 Harpers. It’s about how investigators in Guatemala stumbled across five buildings of decaying records about people who were “disappeared” by the government during Guatemala’s civil war.

Here’s the original posting from the National Security Archive’s Guatemala Documentation Project. Please go look at the photos, they’ll make your brain swim. You can see the scope of the project to preserve these documents, and to get information to families of those who were murdered by police. Many of the records were left lying in heaps exposed to the weather and vermin.

All those people inside the files remind me of the fictional house in Everything is Illuminated that contains the belongings of a town decimated by the Nazis. Dusty boxes full of keys, and pocket squares, and baby teeth. It must be a peculiar sensation to begin preservation work, to feel so much loss and possibility in the same room.

When you want to have the president arrested for war crimes, just maybe skip the beret. You know, just that day.