sunday short stack
"For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off." - Johnny Carson
- Terry Gilliam has released a trailer (of sorts) for the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
- The world's longest bug lives in Borneo.
- Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise is now a website with audio files galore.
- Aravind Adiga has won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger.
- RIP Safari Sam's
- Sarah Weinman reviews Leonard Cassuto's Hard-Boiled Sentimentality, which looks at "the hidden connection between crime fiction and 19th century sentimental novels."
- Get yer domestic nuclear shelter here.
- Get yer science tattoo here.
- The Money Meltdown has everything you wanted to know about the global money crisis but were afraid to ask (via VSL).
- If you're more of a visual learner, just visit The Brokers with Hands on Their Faces blog.
- Toni Morrison will appear as part of the Central Library ALOUD series on November 19.
