http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:53:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/30/daily-toast-28/ 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. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/18/daily-toast-27/ 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. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/17/daily-toast-june-17th-2008/ 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 ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/16/926/ 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 http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/13/daily-toast-26/ 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. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/12/daily-toast-25/ 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. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/11/daily-toast-24/ 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) ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/10/daily-toast-23/ 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 ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/09/daily-toast-22/ 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! ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/07/weekend-toast-2/