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Daily toastThe 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.

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Daily toastDiscussion about the Kindle and Sony ebook reader on the Oxford University Press blog. Link.

The spread of information from blog to blog. From Data Mining. Link

Movable type hoax. Interesting—maybe. From The Technium. Link.

The magazine layout process in a time-lapse video. From magCulture. Link.

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Daily toastThe economics of love, from NYT. Link.

A colour e-ink tablet from Fujitsu, from Engadget. Link

Digg’s changing traffic patterns—print media is sliding. From Hitwise. Link.

Craig, please save what’s black and white and read all over. From PaidContent. Link.

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Daily toastThe 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.

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Daily toastNew 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.

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Daily toastBack 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.

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Daily toastHow 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.

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Daily toastMy 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.

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Vanity Fait\'s Blogopticon

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.

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Daily toastAbandoned 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

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Daily toastDemonic 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.

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Daily toastThe 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.

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