Better blogs than mine

Found via NZ Bear’s excellent new tiny lil’ blogs showcase, a new group blog, full of exciting news:

There’s an official pub date for Neal Stephenson’s next book: September 23. It’s called Quicksilver, and is part of his Baroque Cycle.

insightful commentary:

Fewer and fewer workers will be supporting an ever-burgeoning retirement class. Whether we pay for the Social Security disbursements to this group by durect tax payments (in the future) or by purchasing bonds (again, in the future), the bottom line is that a tremendously large share of future income must be siphoned off from the working classes to pay for retirees. This has tremendous implications about the standard of living enjoyed by the current generations of young folks.

more insightful commentary:

Clearly the music industry can’t help itself; no opportunity to alienate consumers escapes its watchful gaze. Good grief, these lyric sites are free advertising for the artists and labels. By all means, shut them down and make your product less accessible. Beyond that, I wonder whether the industry can back up its allegations of illegality. We’re now comparing writing down lyrics of songs to downloading songs in their entirety?

And last, but not least, an endorsement I wish I’d written of the guy who taught me everything I know about cooking:

Just about every time I watch, I end up learning something that pops into my brain a few weeks or months down the road. I have yet to smoke salmon in a cardboard box with my own sawdust, but I could if I wanted to.

GO PARROTS!

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