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Early week miscellany

Too many interesting things popping up so an early installment of linkage:

The Observer comes up with a list of 15 web sites that changed the world. There’s only two I hadn’t heard of (both non-US oriented) and a couple I visit(ed) nearly every day, (Via Kottke.org Remaindered Links.) Why do I find the fact […]

Lengthy weekend miscellany and marginalia

Recent travel leads to an extended list of linkage this weekend:

I’m enough of a Jon Stewart fan that I have both a “Jon Stewart for President 2008” t-shirt and bumper sticker. But I’m not sure about this. On a related note, while I’m not a fan of the Colbert Report, those who are might […]

Midweek marginalia

George W. Bush: Messiah? (And the author certainly seems to want to imitate traditional renditions of the entity that sent GWB on that mission.) Added to the web site/blogroll are The Negelected Books Page: “Where forgotten books are remembered,” and Lost Book Archives, which focuses on speculative fiction. (Via Eos Books blog.) On a somewhat […]

SF marginalia

Not really being that dumb, Big Dumb Object discovers some “cybercasts” of SF authors (and others) from the 2004 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Wikipedia lists the current selections for SF Masterworks. (Also via Big Dumb Object.) Thanks in part to a fairly heavy dosage of Philip K. Dick, I’ve read about half of […]

Assorted marginalia

In part due to catching up on items from over the weekend, a sooner than usual installment of marginalia:

I’d seen this a while ago but it’s certainly advanced since. Go play with the literature map. (Via So Many Books). Everybody wants a free t-shirt, right? So, go see my friend MinusCar, contribute 300 words […]