- Fusenumber8 has all the relevant links for looking in on the awarding of the Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King and Printz awards on Monday.
- The divine and hardcore-hockey-playing Cecil Castellucci has started a new blog where she’ll be posting different people’s top 10 punk lists in honor of her most excellent new novel Beige, due out this summer.
- New Young Pony Club tracks.
- Carl Zimmer relates a Mark Twain anecdote: Mark Twain once discovered to his horror that his story "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" had been hideously translated into French. He went so far as to publish the original story, the translation, and his own retranslation of the French back to English to show just how badly it had been abused. "I claim that I never put together such an odious mixture of bad grammar and delirium tremens in my life," he declared. Apparently not as bad as being translated by Creationists.