- My attentions have been diverted towards this year’s Oscar blog, but I’ll do my best at playing double-duty. (Triple, if I count deadlines.)
- Graham Greene noir.
- Apparently, Andrea Levy has conquered America. I knew the Brits would retaliate back for the Boston Tea Party sooner or later.
- Normally, I’m a big fan of lists. (Hence, these roundups, which are presented to you in lists.) But this may be going a bit overboard.
- As an aside, does the phrase “reading challenge” sound like a game from The Price is Right?
- The neuroscience behind flaming. (via Bookninja)
- Norman Spinrad on “The Doomsday Machine”.
- Clive James on Brazil. (via Ghost in the Machine)
- This year’s Booker judging panel. (via Reading Matters)
- T.S. Eliot remix MP3s.
- George Takei on Tim Hardaway.
- The Funniest Robots. (via Quiddity)
- Email is worse for you than drugs. Guess I’ll take up speedballs then.
- New Scientist: “Sleep also helps us to extract themes and rules from the masses of information we soak up during the day.” Speaking for myself, I don’t know if my dreams of wild orgies with 1940s noir queens is really a matter of “extracting information.”