sunday short stack

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

• Lifehacker's readers explore the best music for studying. (Air albums worked pretty well for me.)
• Bansky gets up to no good at Disneyland.
• Whoever's the commitment-phobe in this relationship is a genius. (My money's on A.)
• Martin Amis imagines the last days of Muhammad Atta. (Bookslut comments: "You know, thank god we have privileged old white men like John Updike and Martin Amis to help us really get inside the minds of poor Muslim young men drawn to martyrdom.")
• John Kain reflects on how to pick a guru (via Guruphiliac).
• LAist offers 666 Questions with Coop.
• Neatorama has a fantastic post on The Wonderful World of Early Photography.
• The LA Times examines the mystery of lonelygirl15.
• German spies in WWII used fashion sketches to outwit censors (via Activate).
• Jody Rosen comments on the sacking of Robert Christgau at The Village Voice.
• The film adaptation of Patrick Suskind's "unfilmable novel" Perfume debuted this week in Munich.

Update: Lonelygirl15 unmasked by the New York Times.
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