Friday Links

The weekend? Already?

Colourful Caribbean fish could explain why life on Earth is so diverse

Study scores congressional websites

Unpublished Mark Twain eulogy to his dead daughter to be sold at auction

Ancient ruin reminiscent of Ikea furniture

SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed

CNN: Oil slick spreads from sunken rig
A 1-by-5-mile sheen of crude oil mix has spread across the Gulf of Mexico's surface around the area where an oil rig exploded and sank, a Coast Guard lieutenant said Thursday. Officials do not know whether oil or fuel are leaking from the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig and the well below, but BP Vice President David Rainey said "it certainly has the potential to be a major spill." Meanwhile, the Coast Guard continued to search for 11 people missing after an explosion late Tuesday set the rig ablaze forcing workers to be evacuated from the vessel. Officials are still unsure what caused the blast.

Potentially lethal fungus moves south from Canada

The World of Doormen Is Obvious, Yet Mysterious

Dreams 'can help with learning'

Contact lenses fix vision while you sleep

Dangers of the make-up counter: E.coli found in EVERY 'tester' on beauty counters

The Arizona Republic: Arizona border plan: Add National Guard, have Feds pay for it
Gov. Jan Brewer pledged $10 million in federal stimulus funds to beef up local law enforcement efforts along the Arizona-Mexico border, and called on President Obama to pay for deployment of 250 National Guardsmen to the area to combat illegal immigration Brewer said in a Thursday afternoon news conference that she had pleaded five times in letters to Obama for a federal response to help Arizona stanch the flow of illegal immigrants across its southern border by deploying additional troops. "Arizona is frustrated and we're going to push back," Brewer said at her news conference. "The people of Arizona have had it."