sunday short stack

"You can't call yourself a 'polymath' if you only have two talents and one of them is being nervous." - Toothpaste for Dinner

• The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality is set to launch on-line (via Maud Newton). Also from MN, see the illustrious history of the yellow legal pad.
• Moo now offers business cards made from your Flickr photos at $20 for 100 (via Cool Hunting).
• "How sex, rum, World War II, and the brand-new state of Hawaii ignited a fad that has never quite ended" (via a fool in the forest).
• John Krasinksi (who's looking even cuter this season as Jim in The Office) discusses, among other things, his film adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (via Rake's Progress).
• The Oxford University Press blog offers an overview of the new generation of black female fiction writers (via Ready Steady Blog).
• JG Ballard makes an appearance in the UK to discuss his new novel, Kingdom Come (via Pinky's Paperhaus). He is also interviewed at The Independent and reviewed by Lionel Shriver.
• From Miss Snark: Costello calls to buy a computer from Abbott and Top Ten Reasons Why God Won't Get Tenure
• The Raelians (last seen cloning a baby in 2002) have started an organization to supply Clitoraid to women in Africa. I can't seem to wrap my head around this story (via boing boing).
• Also from boing boing: a crunk tribute to Radiohead, Kelly Link reading "The Girl Detective," how to speak 19th century, and this totally bizarre German sex-ed book for kids.
• Books to buy for your lefty children: Why Mommy Is a Democrat and It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana (via bookslut)
• Timothy Sexton makes the case for "Gang of Four and Pop Music as Marxist Cultural Theory" (via 3quarksdaily).
• Julian Barnes reimagines the end of Madame Bovary in honor of the novel's first appearance 150 years ago (via Campaign for the American Reader).
• From Neatorama: vintage supermarket photos and 10 Scientific Frauds That Rocked the World. (See also 6 Debates at the Frontier of Science.)

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