Not a Review of Mailer's New Book
Shalom Auslander didn't review Mailer's The Castle. He really, really wanted to. He just couldn't bring himself to read it. I know what he means.
Wes Phillips
DRM in the BitTorrent and Broadband Age
Firing Squad has an interesting take on DRM. Warning: the site has super-annoying "content links that are just as annoying as "malicious viruses and rootkits."
The Greatest Yenta the World Has Ever Known
Scientific American takes a look at online dating.
Who Will Rid Me Of This Meddlesome Photographer?
Bagheera is feeling royally cranky.
Check Out These Ears, Monkeyboy
Huckleberry reminds me that I don't have the big ears in this household. Plus, his swivel.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong again!
Fiona Maddocks writes a fine rebuttal to Norman LeBrecht's grousing">http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/070124-NL-tchaikovsky.html">grous… dismissal of the BBC's Tchaikovsky Experience.
The Slow, Painful Death of Sony Corporation
Dave Taylor has it right, I think. Sony, once the personification of innovation, quality, and vision, now has none of them. That is the beginning of a lingering death.
Bill Watterson on Comic Strips
The creator of Calvin & Hobbes gave a legendary (some say notorious) speech called "The State of Cartooning" in 1989. I'd heard of it, but never read it until Planet Cartoon posted it yesterday.
Janis Ian on Copying
Meridian's resident genius, Bob Stuart, sends along this old but still appropriate article by Janis Ian. Be sure to read her follow-up, "Fallout," as well.
Survival of the Fastest?
Not necessarily the firstest with the mostest.