AT AMAZON, 100 MP3 Albums for $5 Each.

Also, free music from rising artists.

IT’S THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF SKYLAB’S LAUNCH.

I have a piece of Skylab, recovered from the crash site in Australia, encased in a little Lucite pyramid on my desk. Also a plaque with a vial containing plastic spheres made in space aboard the Shuttle Challenger.

I BELIEVE THE ANSWER IS THAT THE “EARLIEST FARMERS” WERE GROWING GRAIN FOR BEER. That’s why they were willing to put more work in than the calories produced justified.

IF PLASTIC GUNS ARE WHAT SCARES YOU ABOUT 3D PRINTING, then you don’t understand 3D printing.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How To Reinvent College.

TATTOO FUN: Man Named Hostgator Dotcom Is Getting Porn Site Tattoo Removed From His Face.

OH, MY: FBI Launches Criminal Probe of IRS Conduct.

AT AMAZON, Warehouse Deals On Video Games.

MY LATEST POPULAR MECHANICS COLUMN: Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control.

SHIKHA DALMIA: The Myth of the Scientific Liberal: Those who tout science should accept its findings. “The core trait of a scientific mind is that when its commitments clash with evidence, evidence rules. On that count, what grade do liberals deserve? Fail, given their reaction to the latest evidence on universal health care, global warming, and universal preschool.”

THE END TIMES ARE UPON US: Makeup for Men is On The Rise—And No Longer A Taboo.

GLIMPSES OF A WORLD revealed by cellphone data.

SCIENCE: Panel Finds No Benefit in Sharply Restricting Sodium. Somebody tell Mike Bloomberg.

ASTRONAUT CHRIS HADFIELD’S best shots from space.

I’M ACTUALLY SURPRISED NO ONE HAS SUED THEM ON SOME SORT OF “ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE” KIND OF THEORY: NY attorney general seeks help for cell thefts. “In New York City, theft of Apple products has driven much of the increase in the theft of electronics, Schneiderman said. More than 11,000 iPhones and other Apple devices were reported stolen in the city between January 1 and September 2012, he said. The incidents sometimes turn violent.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 10 Celebrity Sex Tape Scandals You May Have Missed.

YA THINK? The Week: A flood of scandals engulfs Obama: From spinning Benghazi to politicizing the IRS to spying on the AP, a raft of embarrassing revelations is crippling the president.

And don’t forget Kathleen Sebelius’s ObamaCare shakedowns!

RICHARD EPSTEIN: Watching ObamaCare Unravel.

MORE BUREAUCRATIC FAVORITISM: EPA waives fee requests for friendly groups, denies conservative groups.

SOME QUESTIONS ANSWER THEMSELVES: Why Did the IRS Target Conservative Groups? “Now, maybe 501(c) organizations are a big scam and don’t promote social welfare and we should get rid of them, as I’ve seen some columnists complain. But this doesn’t actually seem like the right time to have that conversation. Rather, it seems like a distraction from the fact that IRS employees decided that groups that advocated for smaller government were somehow specially untrustworthy, and acted on this opinion by singling them out for extra bureaucratic hassles. This is hugely disturbing, and right now our focus should be on making sure it doesn’t happen again, not reforming the laws governing tax-exempt organizations.”

GEORGE WILL: In IRS Scandal, Echoes Of Watergate.

Hey, even Massachusetts Democrats are saying that.

DON’T LET THIS SHAKEDOWN GET LOST IN THE SCANDAL OVERLOAD: Lamar Alexander: Sebelius fundraising ‘arguably an even bigger issue’ than Iran-Contra. “One issue is if she’s raising money from the people she regulates. But I’m more concerned about her using private funding and private organizations to do what Congress has refused to do. I and other members of congress are going to ask GAO to look into the extent she’s coordinating with Enroll America or other organizations.”

WELL, IT’S MEN. SO WHO CARES? Male Suicide: Where’s The Outcry?

The suicide rate for middle-aged Americans has risen by nearly 30 percent over the past decade. This news is depressing enough on its own, but the gender breakdown is where it gets disturbing: According to the New York Times, middle-aged American men kill themselves at nearly four times the rate that women do. . . .

Unemployed men are 126 percent more likely to kill themselves than their employed counterparts. And as we’ve written before, unemployed men are generally unappealing candidates for marriage, hurting their romantic prospects and increasing their sense of alienation. Unmarried men are a whopping 240 percent more likely to take their own lives than married men.

Perhaps most shocking about this story is the relative silence with which it has been met. If women were taking their lives in record numbers, largely due to their inability to find employment or husbands, you could bet that federal tribunals, support groups, and cries for policy change would abound. But thousands of men take their own life, lost in the shadows, and much of the press seem content to let the stories remain there.

Women have a union. Men once did, but no longer do.

RACISM AND GUN CONTROL: Remembering the “Saturday Night Special.” “The reason I retrieved Sherrill’s Saturday Night Special from the back of a high shelf was that he offers a lively argument that the 1968 Gun Control Act was mostly about controlling Negroes and not much about controlling guns. . . . In 1973, the number one bad gun was the so-called ‘Saturday Night Special.’ Remember that one? Just like today’s “assault weapon,” it was an elastic category with no real boundaries. The label could capture small guns, small caliber guns, cheap guns, and if you really want to get to the point, guns likely to be owned by poor people, and more so black people.”