Morning Reading: 9/2/06

Tom Morris creates a way for you to create a news river for any site. Here’s the Newsome.Org river. This is cool and helpful.

Science Project: B-Movie Monster Biology. The Incredible Shrinking Man is cold. And hungry. And thirsty.

Morning Math: Eager, forgetful reporter + 6000 volts = this.

Nick Carr announces a Rough Type sibling blog- Rough Sort. Nick is to blogs as Mark Spragg is to novels- they both can turn a phrase better than anyone else in the business. You want an example: “If you squint, you can just make out in the shadows cast by their high-flown words a sad tableau of lonely people peering into computer screens. Or is that just a trick of the light?” I don’t completely agree with his point, but damn, that’s beautiful writing.

From the Name Everything Wrong with this Sentence Department: “Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil,” Father Gabriele Amorth, the Pope’s caster-out of demons.” (via John Dvorak)

Just for the record: MySpace’s new music deal is much more about becoming the new MP3.Com (the original version) than it is about trying to challenge iTunes.

3+3+3? Ronnie Isley of the Isley Brothers is going to the pokey for 3 years. 3+3 is one of the best records ever made.

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