Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Growing up Muslim in America (“… while the heightened sense of a threat from Islamic terrorism that existed post-[9/11] may have gone, it has given way to a persistent, low-level paranoia that pervades the everyday lives of the million-plus Muslim Arab Americans living here and throughout the country.”) (via)
Blog Headline of the Week
This Week’s Big Brother Moment
- The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords
Irony of the Week
- The NSA turned down a ProPublica FOIA request because it says it lacks the ability to search all the email within its internal network
Bookish Linkage
- There’s always a place for great bookstores
- Israel’s largest bookstore launches an impressive ad campaign
- Robert Snowden’s Russian lawyer gives him three literary recommendations — Dostoyvesky, Chekhov and Nikolai Karamzin — to learn about Russia
- Qwiklit has come up with a work of contemporary fiction for each state. I am somewhat surprised that South Dakota’s is an E.L. Doctorow book I’d never heard of
- Qwiklit also has a list of 10 essential prairie novels, most of which are perhaps surprisingly familiar
Nonbookish Linkage
- Disposable men: the Sherpa guides of Mt. Everest (via)
- A great infographic on the science of mental illness
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
Joss Whedon
