- So much to hate: The Beast’s 50 Most Loathsome People in America 2008
- Bookshelves gone wild: Plant your tree of knowledge next to your literary playground.
- At the Vroman’s Bookstore blog, Patrick talks about why “books need more time,” and looks at how one book is getting more than the one week it was given.
- n+1 launches N1BR, the book review supplement to n+1. One of the editors is Nikil Saval, who appeared in our Year in Reading series in 2008.
- The earliest celluloid film (from 1888) can be found – where else – on YouTube. (From The List Universe’s “Top 10 Incredible Early Firsts In Photography“)
- As if it wasn’t already hard enough to get up for work in the morning: Our world may be a giant hologram
- Jack Shafer responds to David Carr’s call to “invent an iTunes for News.”