sunday short stack
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." - Jean-Paul Sartre (See Fitzgerald on 3 AM.)
- Yesterday at Skylight Books, I saw the impressive multimedia presentation that accompanies Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition. A perfect gift for your favorite sarcastic cartographer...
- Retrocrush has video of the 25 greatest duets of all time.
- Sarah Boxer looks at books on blogs.
- Over at Salon, Zach Baron compares the latest releases from Cat Power and Magnetic Fields.
- Is science fiction the last great literature of ideas? Clive Thompson thinks so.
- The Nonist shares a fabulous document from the golden days of baseball when a few f-bombs were the worst of the sport's problems.
- A scary blob has clogged the sewers of Lewiston, Maine.
- Because you can't trust the dopamine high that infatuation triggers in your brain, Steven Pinker suggests you stick with someone who's infatuated with you.
- Neatorama lists 10 accidental product discoveries.
- Click through these Metafiler links (nsfw) to see the way Russian and Israeli children are taught about the birds and the bees.
