Bulletin Board
- Banned Books Week starts tomorrow. Here’s an idea: read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, banned by a North Carolina school board just this week
Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- The Music is Worthless (“The notion of stealing music seems quaint now; stealing implies something has value in the first place.”)
Criminal of the Week
- A Maryland man was arrested after he left his rap sheet at the scene of a burglary
Freedom of Expression?
- A Swedish court has ruled that public masturbation is legal so long as you are not “targeting” anyone in particular
Bookish Linkage
- A guide to contemporary literary movements
- Five books for insomniacs
- The Booker Prize will accept entries from any nation for the first time next year as long as the book was originally written in English and published in the UK
- Of course the Booker announcement is a disaster — or a saving grace
Nonbookish Linkage
- British researchers have found extraterrestrial life — or not
- Putting time in perspective (via)
- The world’s “happiest country” has only one psychiatrist — and he has more work than he can handle (via)
- Welcome to the world of WAS (via)
- Ten rules for speech, conversation, debate and related matters in the online age
I can’t complain but sometimes I still do
Joe Walsh, “Life’s Been Good,” But Seriously Folks
