Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Death Takes No Holiday (“Death, unlike the railroads, publishes no schedule. Untimely is the adjective most often paired with death, but what would constitute a timely death?”)
Blog Headline of the Week
Best Blog Line of the Week
- “Paris Hilton, like her fellow Parisites, is a worthless tick feasting off the blood of a terminally bored public. She has nothing to write about since her life has been as empty as her head.”
American Foolishness of the Week
- A Gallup poll released this week shows 42 percent of Americans believe in creationism (and that’s actually down from last year)
Bookish Linkage
- Realizing you only can read so many books before you die
- I don’t think I’d really want to know the answers were I to interrogate my bookshelves
- After a Florida High School cancelled its summer One Book/One School program because Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother was the selection, he is sending 200 copies of the book to the school
- British professor argues young people give up their online privacy easily because they haven’t read 1984
- An online bookseller that calls itself the “Amazon of the Middle East” is launching a section on its site devoted entirely to books banned by Middle Eastern governments
- A look at the reading lists of Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton
- Bookish Lists: 10 everyday words that came from SF; 8 YA books that deal with mental illness; 5 absolutely atrocious memoirs; ranking Hemingway’s novels
Nonbookish Linkage
- Eight graphs that explain Walmart (the second is almost frightening)
- The best reporting on guns in America
- Stoner tips for Maureen Dowd
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
James Watson, Molecular Biology of the Gene
