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• Burkas and Birkins
• The quest to design a better stop sign
• Wired: Darpa’s Self-Learning Software Knows Who You Are
• Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard
• Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer
• TechCrunch: It’s All About Selling for Survival
• NY Times: The Trolls Among Us
• Vanity Fair: Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch
• The Technium: Triumph of the Default
• Benjamin Pollack: The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News
• Robert Towne: Chinatown, 35 years later
• The New Yorker: Secrets of Magus
• The Rumpus long interview with Dave Eggers
• NY Times Op-ed: A supreme leader loses his aura as Iranians flock to the streets
• Sports Illustrated: The two and only
• Salon: The Learjet repo man
• Inc.: The start-up guru -- Y Combinator's Paul Graham
• Clay Shirky: Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable
• Boston Globe: Depression 2009 -- What would it look like?
• Love in the Time of Darwinism
• The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway
• Ad Week: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
• New York Magazine: Sarah Palin's Heaven
• HS: Jos Suomi olisi suostunut syksyllä 1939…
• The Believer interviews David Foster Wallace
• NY Times: Federer as Religious Experience
• Why Ebert gives out too many stars
• New York Times: Summa Cum Madden
• New York Magazine: Have we reached the end of book publishing as we know it?
• Vanity Fair: James Frey’s Morning After
• Keating: McCain Now Openly Indulging in (Political) Pornography
• New York Magazine: The Sixty-Day War
• NY Mag: Straight shooter
• Smithsonian Magazine: Being Funny
• John Gruber: A Mix of the Technical, the Artful, the Thoughtful, and the Absurd
• New Yorker: Kremlin, Inc.
• Harpers': The Illustrated President
• Wired: Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police
• Wired: Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
• NY Times: Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With a Matching Ego, Dies at 84
• The Origami Lab -- Why a physicist dropped everything for paper folding.
• Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale
• National Geographic article on memory
• 'Borges': Writer on the Couch
• Scott Berkun: How to detect bullshit
• The Piracy Paradox
• Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading
• Garrison Keillor: Lake Wobegon Days
• Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
• Jordan: New Spring
• Vonnegut: The Sirens of Titan
• Bret Easton Ellis: Glamorama
• Paul Auster: Hand to Mouth
• Po Bronson: Bombardiers
• George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
• Vladimir Nabokov: Mary
• J.D. Salinger: Nine Stories
• Benjamin Anastas: An Underachiever’s Diary
• John Fante: The Road to Los Angeles
• A fast-forwarded history of Denmark
• Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio
• Charles Bukowski: Lounaalla
• What I’ve read this summer