sunday short stack

"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom." - Michel de Montaigne

• Oh yeah...this is an awesome time to look for a teaching job.
• But...but...but I want to be a "traditional tweed-coated, pipe-smoking, comfortable-job-for-life full-time professor."
• Good magazine has a new books blog: Signatures.
• A high-tech theater production of Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves might actually work.
• The Northern Lights have been recreated in 3D for the first time.
• RIP John Leonard
• Blogging's not just for kids anymore.
• From the department of Too Much Time on Hands: Cursebird is a realtime feed of people swearing on Twitter.
• How macha are you?
• Simon Pegg argues for a return to traditional zombie values.
• Find all your randy neighbors.
• I need to wean myself off the Obamamania with Change.gov the website, ChangeDotGov the YouTube channel, Super Obama World, and lingering goosebumps.
• Beware white people: Obama's going to make you wear some kind of special moustache.