Category: Gleanings

• On Reading A.J. Liebling: The Smart Set
  One of my heroes.
  (tags: ajliebling journalism writing books libraryofamerica)

• ATM Hunter: Iphone app that helps you find bank machines
  (via Medialoper).
  (tags: iphone app atm money banking)

• Food as a social identifier or "What do you think of when I say 'curry': Times Literary Supplement
  (via Arts Journal).
  (tags: food cooking uk india identity culture)

• The Different Kinds of People That There Are: The Stranger
  Ahh, I love BS Sociology (via Flavorwire).
  (tags: culture people sociology)

• United Air to charge obese double on full flights: Reuters
  Joins eight other airlines in dong so. Sad (via Erin Shea).
  (tags: travel airlines business wieght obesity)

• McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview.
  (via Waxy.org).
  (tags: books web2.0 writing mcsweeneys syllabus humour future)

• Pitchfork's coverage of Coachella 2009
  (tags: music 2009 pitchfork coachella concerts)

• Miranda July on Tumblr
  (via Steve Rodes).
  (tags: blogs tumblr mirandajuly)

• No surprise here: Oprah appearance huge for Twitter – CNET
  Duh. (via Paid Content.org).
  (tags: twitter oprah socialmedia trends technology)

• Does Video Game Criticism Need a Pauline Kael? PopMatters
  (via BookForum).
  (tags: journalism writing criticism videogames gaming)
• Zócalo Public Square:
  Smart people porn (via Tigerbeat).
  (tags: losangeles lectures ideas zocalo)

• One Day University: World Class Professors teach a class for a single day
  Amazing!
  (tags: education learning classes teaching onedayuniversity)

• Biggest Myth of the 21st Century? A stable job
  (via Powells Blog).
  (tags: business career jobs economy recession work)

• Old computers play "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  (via Waxy.org).
  (tags: music bohemianrhapsody queen 80s tech computers geekery)

• How Jane Austen's novels shows us humans as only slightly evolved from apes: LiveScience
  (via AL Daily).
  (tags: books culture literature evolution austen janeausten anthropology)

• NPR looks at Pultizer Prize winners history has forgotten
  (via The Elegant Variation).
  (tags: literature books writing pulitzer pulitzerprice history memory)

• This is Your Wake-up Call: 12 Steps to Better Book Publishing: Publishers Weekly
  Well done (via Sarah Weinman).
  (tags: books business publishing businessmodels)

A little light reading…

• Senator Ted Kennedy endorses Barack Obama. This race gets more interesting by the day.

• Which got me thinking. Who are the longest serving members of the Senate? Wikipedia has the whole list.

• NY Times: Social Entrepreneurs are all the rage at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos  (via GreenBiz.com).

• Dying to read this story in the new Atlantic Monthly about digital music and its future (via Waxy.org).

• Philadelphia Inquirer: A profile and new biography of Wallace Stegner, whom I’ve always wanted to learn more about.

• New America Media: A fascinating take on "The New Media" and its evolution in minority communities.

• Hackzine profiles a way to grab music from the stupid little flash players on MySpace.

• It’s now possible to listen to music on-demand at Last.fm.

• Take the Washington Post’s Choose Your Candidate Quiz (via Smoke and Ashes)

• NY Times: Caitlin Flanagan on sex, pregnancy and teenage girls in recent films (via George Kelly).

• The Long Now Foundation’s Seminars on Long Term Thinking are available as a podcast. Which has a very good chance at becoming my new audio obsession (via Social Media.biz).

• Boston Globe: 8 bands to watch in 2008 (via Large Hearted Boy).

• Newsweek: Can Apple outdo the iPhone? We’ll know tomorrow (via Medialoper)!

A reading queue dump…

• Norman Mailer is gone. The Elegant Variation has a nice set of appraisals.

• I’m dying to read this Malcolm Gladwell article on criminal profiling. If it were doused in peanut butter, it would have been delivered to be via heaven (via AL Daily).

• Speaking of the New Yorker, videos from the New Yorker Festival are now available as a podcast.

• The Carrie Bradshaw urban girl lifestyle has gone overseas. This article submits that this says a lot more about politics and economics than we think it does (via AL Daily).

• Business Pundit asks if constant connectivity is actually bad for your career.

• A blog on personal branding. Which sounds redundant, don’t it?

• The New Yorker: Classical music is prospering in the age of the digital download. Matt Haughey speculates that it may even be the future of the music business.

• The LA Times weighs in with its best albums of 2007 (via Large Hearted Boy).

• Reason Magazine’s profile of the worst mayor in America (via Kottke.org).

• The legendary Chelsea Hotel is under new management. No word yet on what this might mean for it’s future (via Buzz Anderson).

• My friend Buzz had been all over the world in the last six months. I’m amazed and a little jealous.

• I have downloaded "In Rainbows". Thoughts to come…

• Washington Post: Billy Crystal wins Mark Twain prize for American humor (via Nextbook).

• The Powells.com blog is running a great explanation of where the idea for 33 1/3, the amazing music book series came from.

• Shifting Careers: On small business owners and blogging.

• Jason Kottke interviews New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross.

• FreeRice gives ten grains of rice to a hungry person every time you get a right answer on a vocabulary quiz. It’s doing good in a nerdy kinda way.

• I’m mad I’m going to be out of town for the San Francisco Green Festival. Sounds like a great lineup and a chance to score some free hemp milk