- Oscar Villalon raises interesting questions about the lines between fiction and nonfiction.
- Annalee Newitz reviews Optic Nerve #11.
- Megan points to a vanity press scamming bookstores. There’s more info here. Avoid Author Identity Press at all costs.
- Why does the media consistently ignore the Midwest? (via Isak)
- The college prank as viral video.
- Eric Klinenberg has additional ideas about what’s killing newspapers. And it ain’t the Internet.
- David Yezzi on Kingsley Amis’s poetry.
- A lost interview with Douglas Adams.
- Bill Benzon compares the Gabler and Barrier Walt Disney bios.
- Cinetrix needs your help IDing a film.
- The Norwegians mock the Danish language. (via Language Hat)
- There’s some new software available that will allow you to see fellow humans as animals do.
- The Daylight Savings Time change had no impact on power consumption. Way to go, team!
all you need to know about the midwest is that omaha is cooler than hartford and fresno, but not seattle or austin: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/travel/tmagazine/03talk.omaha.t.html (i kid, of course)