- Putting every New Yorker on paper.
Artist Jason Polan has an ambitious goal: to sketch all 8.3 million people in the city. He captures his unsuspecting subjects eating pizza, riding the subway, catching a train.
Hmm. I wonder if I’m anywhere in his sketchbook. [via]
- Looking for another reason not to like “textbook sociopath” Ayn Rand? Apparently she was a big admirer of certain serial killers. [via]
- Roger Ebert: class act. [via]
- It’s not a “late fee,” it’s just money you owe if you don’t bring back the DVD on time.
- And finally, a great interview with Ursula K. Le Guin about the Google Book Settlement and why she’s opted out:
I’m part of the technological age whether I want to be or not, and mostly I enjoy it very much. I’m not protesting technology — how stupid would that be? Writers against Computers, or something? I’m protesting against a corporation being allowed to rewrite the rules of copyright and the laws of my country — and in doing so, to wreck the whole idea of that limitless electronic Public Library.
I think the Google Library could do a lot of good. I think the way Google is going about it will do a lot of harm. [via]