Monday, June 1, 2009 | by nathan

Weekly Reader – 1 June 2009

The Big Picture: Hubble’s Final Servicing Mission
Boston.com’s "The Big Picture" feature is one of my favorite things on the internet, and this week they look at the recent shuttle mission to update and repair the Hubble Space Telescope for the final time.

Vintage Sexist Ads
One of these straight-up says, "MEN ARE BETTER THAN WOMEN!" All at once a good laugh and a shocking look at the image of women in media over the last century.

J. Crew Math
via @whoorl, this blog helps you make sense of some of the more baffling choices available to you in your J. Crew catalog.

Onward Christian Soldiers!
Some truly creepy cover pages from Pentagon reports, seen by Then-Sec. Rumsfelt and President Bush, about progress in Iraq, featuring photos of war accompanied by scary-sounding, out-of-context Bible verses that seemed to cheer the war effort. So glad this administration is gone.