sunday short stack

"I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'"
- Jack Handey

• Visit 1904 London for one minute and four seconds.
• Today's LA Times takes a trip back in time to profile the LAPD Gangster Squad.
• Today's New York Times offers "Shelley's Daughters," a discussion of women who carry the horror torch.
• Good news: City planners have finally recommended granting Griffith Park cultural-historical monument status.
• A Japanese woman has been jailed for killing her husband's avatar.
  
• John Hodgman's guest blogging on Boing Boing this week occasioned a return to his TED talk: A Brief Digression on Lost Time
• Also from Boing Boing: Tales of Cranky Book Sellers
• It turns out psychological stages are just another attempt to drum up a good story.
• August Strindberg befriends a small helium balloon.
• Work in a Silverlake basement turns up letters written from Jonestown pre-massacre.
• David Ulin tells publishers: enough with the vapid hype.
• Margaret Atwood reflects on the financial crisis.