- 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!
© 2007, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.
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)