Version 7.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Pedagogy. Linux.

• Jacket Copy links to Sports Illustrated archive, which offers writing from Don Delillo and William Faulkner.  I don’t think either piece is that interesting, but still pretty cool.
• The changing job description of librarians is covered in the New York Times.  I have been thinking about librarians a lot lately as I ponder my future.
• Bernie Sanders, in In These Times, on the failed legacy of Milton Friedman.
• The Guardian of all places has an article about the recent reissues of the classic Indiana hardcore band Zero Boys early work.  They also played a few shows in California last week; word from out there has been overwhelmingly positive about their performance.
• The Atlantic on how the Greeks treated soldiers returning from war.

• Jeanette Winterson on art during a recession.
• Norman Thomas di Giovanni’s Website dedicated to Borges and his censored translations is very interesting and worth spending some time with.
• 2666 reviews: The New York Review Of Books, New York Times, The Quarterly Conversation
• Part two of Tony Rettman’s interview with Joe Carducci.
• Finally, via my friend Clevo, two videos of Black Flag.  One is from the Target video near the beginning of Henry Rollins’ time with the band.  The other is a few years, and a lot more hair, later with the classic lineup of Greg Ginn, Rollins, Kira, and Bill Stevenson.

• TimesOnline speaks to Margaret Atwood about her new book.
• Blogging Woolf on Alison Light’s new book about Virginia Woolf’s servant (New York Times review).
• Wired talks to Elisabeth Sladen about her Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• Mark Larson posted his notes from a recent Umberto Eco lecture on how he writes.

• The Quarterly Conversation reviews Jayne Pupek’s Tomato Girl and Conversational Reading on two new Dalkey issued Toussaint novels.

• The Guardian on the trouble with cinematic adaptation of Evelyn Waugh novels.

• Blogging Woolf on Unfinished Dialogues, a ballet about the last day of Virginia Woolf’s life.

• New York Times reviews Cory Doctorow’s excellent Little Brother (review coming soon).

• New York Times on Orwell’s diaries being blogged on WordPress.
• Christopher Sorrentino reviews John Barth’s new novel in Bookforum.
• A book of letters between Bernard Henri Levy and Michel Houellebecq will be published soon.
• An interesting “first person” piece in The Guardian about asexuality.
• Alice Ferrebe’s Digital Orientalism: Japan & Electronic Literature.

• From Fibreculture, Caroline McCaw on the art of Second Life and Axel Bruns looks at used based “produsage.”

• Due to some monetary constraints I was unable to attend ELO 08, but Scott Rettberg posted his presentation over at Grand Text Auto. More on that soon.

• Barrett Hathcock’s essay on the Internet from The Quarterly Conversation.

• Catching up on fiction from The New Yorker: Bolano, Diaz, Eugenides, and a previously untranslated story by Nabokov.

• Seamus Heaney’s 1985 review of Mr. Palomar from the New York Times.

• Daniel Green’s review of the intriguing Lost Books Of The Odyssey.

• The New Yorker had a big piece last week on Keith Olbermann.

Meanwhile, on Twitter…

• The New Republic pays tribute to de Beauvoir.

• Terra Nova covers a promising MMO called Lila Dreams.

• Greg Palast on the preemptive theft of the 2008 election. Speaking of, maybe I should just sleep in anyway.

• My new desktop background (Kind of big and exciting casting spoilers for the finale of Doctor Who)

• Kristin Hersh has a new website.

And…

• Margaret Atwood won a big literary award in Spain.

• A member of the old New York hardcore band Ultra Violence gets a mention in The New Yorker too.

• Steve F. Anderson looks at time based digital media.

• Reviews: Guardian Unlimited looks at Douglas Coupland’s new novel The Gum Thief and the New York Times offers two separate reviews of Naomi Klein’s new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism.

• Brien Michael looks at two next books about transgendered experiences.

• The New Yorker looks at the history of spam email.

• The New York Times wants to revisit the canon wars. I am going to have more to say about this one.