Electronic text, but not actual usable e-books.

Photographs of abandoned and "historical" places.

"Try getting credit in most countries, if you freelance for someone at the other side of the world. Just try to get the electricity connected in most countries without a local salaried job." Good points.

Bunnie Huang on China today

a reborn cosmopolitanism as enabler of constructive dialog in a world of airy relativists and totalist liberals

The biggest and best online bod-mod site since 1994

cute article about personals ads in the LRB

I can't wait to read this. The bit about "American Beauty" warms my black heart.

"Did the comic book really need to grow up?"