Oct 192009
 

Wal-Mart vs Ama­zon. $9 best­sellers! Link.

Oct 192009
 

The cover of the uncen­sored, unau­tho­rized Simp­sons bio. Very cool. Link.  (via )

Oct 192009
 

‘Look at the Birdie’. Pre­vi­ously unpub­lished Von­negut story.

Oct 192009
 

The inescapable W.B. Yeats. http://bostonreview.net/BR34.5/huddleston.php

Amartya Sen Interview

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Oct 192009
 

Free­wheel­ing Amartya Sen inter­view from Out­look.

Oct 162009
 

The Great Bal­loon Boy Hoax. More evi­dence that The Simp­sons  have said every­thing there is to say about everything.

Oct 152009
 

Fas­ci­nat­ing look behind the scenes at The Simp­sons. (and how Fox tried to keep it under wraps) Daily Beast Link.  (via @bookn­inja)

Oct 152009
 

Libraries wade into dig­i­tal lend­ing, and pub­lish­ers nat­u­rally want them to unwade. Link.

Oct 142009
 

Barnes and Noble e-reader looks like a Kin­dle crossed with an iPhone Link.  (via @npbooks, @mash­able)

Beware of Fairy Tales

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Oct 142009
 

The Guardian on the Dis­ney­fi­ca­tion of Fairy Tales.

[…]the pic­ture painted by the Grimms was of a vast, dark, world-encompassing for­est in which still darker deeds were com­mit­ted – and went unpunished.

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