Short Schrift

Gah! Too much to blog, but here are some links to interesting things I've read today. "America’s Riveting Democracy," Roger Co...

The digital world is all about the gift economy these days. From Facebook gifts to donationware to Wii Virtual Console games to political co...

Chris Meade at if:book : Plug headphones into an iPod or XBox and you will be able to listen to one of a large but finite range of sounds. P...

Will Wilkinson's got verve on the breach between libertarians and neocons: I am more and more coming to the conclusion that National Gr...

I like the wit of the first paragraph from this Pitchfork review of the Odelay re-release : In Spin's 20 Years of Alternative Music , B...

There's a spike in value, from shortages and speculation that private property might return in a post-Castro Cuba . (Emigres in Florida ...

Slate: Obama gets more white support than expected. Over the past week, whatever limited support Barack Obama had in the white community st...

Nice essay on Marshall McLuhan in the LRC (literary review of canada), via Arts & Letters Daily . One spark, often overlooked, but cruc...

From Der Spiegel : the last German World War I veteran is believed to have died. The last surviving German army veteran of World War I is re...

File under "Wow. Just. Wow." There's a bar/restaurant in London's Covent Garden section called "Detroit Bar." a ...