- Eric Hobsbawm on what Marxist historiography still has to offer
- BanComicSans.com
- Speed up Acrobat 6 loading time in Firefox
- Serialisation of Jared Diamond’s new book ‘Collapse’ in the Guardian. Part 1, Part 2
- The importance of autonomy to quality of life (Crooked Timber, commenting on ‘The Status Syndrome’)
- Everything You Wanted To Know About Literary Agents -on Neil Gaiman’s blog, but also see…
- …Nielsen Hayden on the same (interesting comments)
- Resisting specialization is to pit yourself against an inevitability, ingrained in the world as deeply as money. Aiding and abetting this unwelcome proposition is a deeper one: perhaps specialization is intrinsic to how we are able to cope with the world. (Alex, on the specialisation dilemma)
- Naming the semiotcracy (at Interconnected.org)
- Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor(Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Scientific American)
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