[Sci Fi Wire]
Christopher Eccleston has quit the title role of the BBC's new Doctor Who series after just one episode aired. Sheesh! Don't they get these guys under contract?

[Locus]
This year's Hugo award nominees are out.

[The National Interest]
Peter Drucker: The New world economy is fundamentally different from that of the fifty years following World War II...The emerging world economy is a pluralist one, with a substantial number of economic blocs..Even more novel is that what is emerging is not one but four world economies: of information; of money; of multinationals (one no longer dominated by American enterprises); and a mercantilist world economy of goods, services and trade. These world economies overlap and interact with one another. But each is distinct with different members, a different scope, different values and different institutions.

[Now Public]
Open-source photojournalism.

[The Mumpsimus]
Matthew Cheney responds to Norman Spinrad's wince-inspiring column in the April/May 2005 issue of Asimov's. I had many of these same thoughts upon reading it, though not nearly so cogently expressed.

[City Life]
Is derivative the new innovative? James Mann, curator at the Las Vegas Art Museum, has a thing for tradition. In fact, he thinks it's the wave of the future. The age of postmodern deconstruction is, to Mann, passé: Their positions were valid at the time, but art can't be dismantled any more than it already has been.

[New York Times]
Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the evolution—or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth—fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical descriptions of the origin of Earth and its creatures.

[Screenhead.com]
Dance, Monkeys, Dance.

[Wired]
Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age—ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.

[telegraph.co.uk]
Camille Paglia: Our most honoured poets are gifted and prolific, but we have come to respect them for their intelligence, commitment and the body of their work. They ceased focusing long ago on production of the powerful, distinctive, self-contained poem. They have lost ambition and no longer believe they can or should speak for their era. Elevating process over form, they treat their poems like meandering diary entries and craft them for effect in live readings rather than on the page.

[AlterNet]
This Sunday's episode of ABC's Boston Legal focusing on censorship was itself censored, purged of all references to Fox and Bill O'Reilly.