- Art by Sophie Blackall on sale. (Via.)
- Thoughts on women and the lack thereof in science.
- Top 10 challenged books 2007.
- Justine on fashion.
- Ninety-year-old debut author of Bowl of Cherries Millard Kaufman gets profiled in the WashPost: "There are curious curlicues in the many lives of Millard Kaufman. For example, he once ingested cobra venom — experimentally– and awoke to find himself playing golf in the nude."
- Alberto Manguel on his 30,000 volume library: "My library is not a single beast but a composite of many others, a fantastic animal made up of the several libraries built and then abandoned, over and over again, throughout my life. I can’t remember a time in which I didn’t have a library of some sort. The present one is a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time."
- Pinky recommends some campaign-related reading.
- The Web Habits of Highly Effective People seem to involve a suspicious-amount of NYT-home paging. (Via trend-bucker Maud.)
- J.L. Bell is having a very amusing punctuation week over at Oz and Ends. The first entry highlights underused punctuation terms.