Back in the saddle again…

A fairly direct opinion piece from Friedman at the NYT. Link.

E-ink newspapers and flying pigs. From Portfolio. Link.

The showdown: iPhone vs Kindle. From CNET. Link.

Search trend for two scary words: SUV and GAS. Link.

How to nap. From Boston.com via Boing Boing. Link.

It’s ‘ok’ to be inefficient. From Web Worker Daily. Link.

Vanity Fair piece on Cuban baseball players. Link.

Here we go. Print-on-demand magazines. Link.

My first computer, the Mac Classic. From CNET. Link.

Kids books online. Link.

Race issues in France. From the NYT. Link.

The future of money. Via Boing Boing. Link.

Presenting the Vanity Fair Blogopticon. Because the Internet needed to be more complicated. Link.

Ian McEwan interviews Steven Pinker. Or (musical stab, please) does he? Link.

Right-wing media getting you down? What about Ezra Pound, foreign correspondent? Link.

The UK Daily Telegraph has an excellent new book blog, called “Paper Tiger.” Discussed this week: Anthony Powell and the semi-colon. Do restrain yourselves. Link.

Your chance to interview William Shatner, history’s fifty-sixth greatest Canadian! Link.

Abandoned gas pumps, from the NYT. Link.

Inflation and gas prices—not just for loose cash policies after all. From the BBC. Link.

The beauty of print magazines. From The Independent. Link.

The melancholy pursuit of happiness. From Smithsonian. Link

Demonic crowds or beautiful shadows? From Bldgblog. Link.

The future of the novel—I hope not. From ReadWriteWeb. Link.

The future of reading to your kids at bedtime—I hope not. From NYT: Papercuts. Link.

Famous photos done in Lego. Found through Wil Wheaton’s blog. Link.

The gospel of consumption and the need for the dissatisfied, from The World’s Fair. Link.

A quick look at the same topic from The Atlantic online, on Inside Higher Ed. Link.

The importance of time spent offline, from Web Worker Daily. Link.

Furniture for children, shaped like books, from BoingBoing. Link.

There is only one thing you should read today: The editors of Mediascout, one of the better media critique services out there, have put together a nice piece on the historical conflict that Canadians are currently seeing across their front pages this week.

While crying into our beers (Molson or Labatt) about the CBC’s loss of the Hockey Night in Canada song, Canadians also dealing with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools and the upcoming apology to Natives from the federal government. Link.

How many Kindles and Sony ebooks are there in the world? From the Oxford University Press blog. Link.

The WWDC starts at 1 p.m. EST and web searches for Apple, iPhone, and Steve Jobs have gone up over the past thirty days. From Google trends. Link.

Similar data from Hitwise. Future historians will love this sort of information. Link.

Interesting bit on Generation Y regarding information usage, particularly books. From ReadWriteWeb. Link.

Changing models. Everyone knows it. Everyone’s talking about it. Link.

Magazines as a luxury good. Do you hear the echo? Link.

Vintage 1998 article about digital books. “The book is the network, the network is knowledge, and someday soon you’ll be able to curl up in bed with all of it.” Ugh! From The Atlantic. Link.

The true tablet is coming. Link.

What is the most depressing industry to work in? Portfolio will tell you. Link

Video of a small bookstore in Germany. No real story here, just a video of small bookstore in Germany. From Monocle. Link

The Long Now Foundation’s “Seminars About Long Term Thinking.” Link.

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the drive in theatre, from Smithsonian Magazine. Bring me popcorn and a fried pickle! Link.

CNN’’s take on the Kindle. Link.

The grand migration from TV to personal computers… march… march… From ReadWriteWeb. Link.

Euro 2008 is coming. Can you feel it? From Google Trends. Link.

Social networking + Web 2.0 + manure = food for all. Interesting take on the removal of “market” from “farmers market.” From The World’s Fair. Link.

What 200 calories looks like. From wiseGEEK. Link.

Some great book covers on the book cover blog. Link.

Signandsight.com regularly does a European magazine round-up. There are hundreds of fantastic mags featured here that can’t be found in Canada. Link.

An article from the Scientific American community on “The Reading Brain.” Link.

From ReadWriteWeb, interesting blog widget called Zemanta that suggests content as you type. Link.

Changing the way we find things: postal-code search mixed with keywords. From HitWise. Link.

Great book review from the NYT of “Quote Poet Unquote.” Link.

Publishing 2.0’s brief history of Google Adwords. Link.

The Atlantic, on the Amazon Kindle. Link.

The Bebook, another ebook. Link.

Sketchtastic post from Bldg Blog. Link.

Cannot find this on the main NASA page, but here it is from Warren Ellis: Martian ice?
Link.