Today’s links of interest — or, something to do while we try to destroy a summer cold.
- Kate Moss Cancels Book Deal
And we all breathe a sigh of relief. - Paperback Reader: Carnal Innocence by Nora Roberts
Speaking of summer reads, this one is like a long, hot, sultry summer with a lot of dead bodies thrown in. - Updike: Blogs not a part of "real society"
Bella Stander takes on the icon. You know how you dig yourself into a hole and then decide, what the heck, I’ll aim for China? John Updike just keeps getting deeper and deeper and doesn’t realize that China’s a long way away. - Growing Wikipedia Revises Its ‘Anyone Can Edit’ Policy
Ah, if only we could count on human beings to act civilized, then we, too, could have a utopian Wikipedia. - Summer reading
Salon takes a look at potential summer reads — and some of them make us long for a beat-up Nora Roberts paperback. - What do linguists do?
Yes, the linguists are at it again: trying to spread the word that they’re fun-loving-wild-and-crazy people too. - Teachers Adjust Lesson Plans as Web Fuels Plagiarism
Not that we’re feeling snarky or anything, but it might help if kids were taught to write in school rather than how to take tests. They’d probably be more inclined to do their own work. - The Blurbing-The-Critics Game
For those of you who ardently follow creative blurbing.
