Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- 8 Ways Facebook Is a Cult Like Scientology (“… social media company basically owns us, and has access to all our most personal information. Yet we are willing participants in this pillaging of our private lives.”)
- The Endlessly Examined Life (“Universal financial security is probably the single best countermeasure to the depression epidemic.”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Most Disappointing Blog Headline of the Week
Bookish Linkage
- Why we keep so many books (my biggest bookshelf pruning in years begins this weekend)
- The New York Public Library has a book list generator for certain areas for your reading over the holidays
- Why publish academic books?
- Bookish Lists: 15 reasons books are the best gifts; suggested books about Cuba from the NYT and The Daily Beast; 10 top novels about 9/11; 5 charities that promote literacy; the long, long list for the Tournament of Books
Nonbookish Linkage
- For some unknown reason, Deadspin ranks South Dakota high school wrestler names
- How to care for introverts
- A history of sex-ed movies
- Homeopathy: mind-bogglingly implausible
- The 7 most intriguing philosophical arguments for the existence of god
- The Universal Life Church: the internet’s one true religion
- Eight horrific “cures” for mental illness
- Ten best weird legal stories of 2014
- Check out the winners of the 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest
I’m not much but I’m all I have.
Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip
