The great walled cities of Iraq—nothing ancient here. From Subtopia. Link.

Go sit down and read a book! From Boing Boing. Link.

Lawrence Lessig’s take on swiftboating on Lessig.org. Link.

The environmental impact of the Irish and Scottish settlers in Canada and New Zealand. A podcast from World’s Fair. Link.

The throw down: paperbacks vs eink. From Pocket-lint. Link

iTunes, the iPhone, and a little thing called the digital book. Will this actually change anything? From tech.blorge. Link

The new-new Amish. From the Technium. Link.

The Bear in repose. A gallery from The Morning News. Link.

New York’s newsstands. From NYT. Link.

Ahhh, the Readius - ugly eink. Also from the NYT. Link.

Dead and ghostly swimming pools via Bldgblog. Link.

Search by colour. Link.

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.

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.