Highly influential article about the essentially plagiaristic nature of all culture production, an article that itself is composed entirely of "borrowed texts." An excellent short and direct argument for uncreative writing.

Cool fonts, with many variations on the usual, plus some historic fonts from the past of typography, all for free.

Fascinating article on truth and verifiability on Wikipedia. The author is an expert on the Haymarket labor riots, but finds this still does not qualify him to edit the Wikipedia entry on the topic.

Fascinating recent plagiarism case from the New Yorker. Spy novel written by author who was "undercover" in the sense that he was secretly writing everything with passages lifted from other novels. 

A fun video of that madcap guy Kenny Goldsmith, reading three pomes about the Brooklyn Bridge, one by Whitman, one by Crane, and one by Kenny himself.

Jessica Murphy writes: "Eolas's "interactive web" patent being ruled as invalid and Berners-Lee jumping for joy about the ruling."

Ted talk on the culturnomics/ngram project. According to Bonnie: "I think this TedTalk does a really good job of summarizing what the ngram article was all about and adds a little interest as well."