- The Best Way to Save Gas (Moore’s Lore) – If localized web services got better we’d all save money.
- Dating the Next Recession (Moore’s Lore) – Dana Blankenhorn thinks the next recession will begin October 17, 2005 when the new bankruptcy law goes into effect. He makes an interesting and compelling argument.
- Writer’s Perspective on Amazon’s Pay-to-Download Short Stories (Boing Boing) – Amazon has a new service that allows you download short stories one at a time (I-Stories?), and at least one writer thinks it’s a good thing.
- Online Bettors Find a New Love: Real Estate (New York Times) – Online exchanges are correctly predicting many new developments (election results, American Idol winners, the capture of Saddam Hussein, etc.) and now they are telling us that real estate "bubbles" in the cities that it is tracking are NOT ready to burst.
- The Vagina…It Writes Letters (Pandagon via Blog on the Run) – This is a hilarious play on the Vagina Monologues, which I’ve never read but am assuming weren’t that funny. Kind of reminds me of that ‘detachable penis’ song.
- "Peak Oil:" Welcome to the Media’s New Version of Shark Attacks (Freakonomics) – Steven Levitt pokes holes in a NYT magazine article that predicts calamitous results from the rising imbalance of oil production and consumption.
- What Do the Kansas City Royals and My iPod Have in Common? (Freakonomics) – On randomness or the lack thereof.
- Anatomy of a New York Times Article (Blog Maverick) – Times really are different for reporters. Mark Cuban publishes the email chain for an interview he did with a New York Times reporter and then links to the resulting article. Let’s just say he didn’t like the results, and he’s making the process transparent for everyone to make their own judgement. Why do I think the reporter might not come out on top?
- Steal this Book (Reveries) – Warren Adler, author of "War of the Roses", thinks the printed book has had a great 500-year run, but it’s about to be replaced by "screen" books.
- Foxification of Local News (BuzzMachine) – Roger Ailes is going to do to local news what he did to national news at Fox.
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