[Technology Review]
What are the ramifications for libraries of Google's plan to digitize books?

[Wired News]
Sony reverses position, will now allow and facilitate sale of virtual goods (gear and toons) in their MMORPGs (Everquest, etc.).

[My Way News]
The Catholic nutballs choose a new Poop: Ratzinger's past includes membership in the Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a German army anti-aircraft unit. [Ratzinger] used a homily at a Mass before the conclave to issue a stern warning that godless modern trends must be rejected.

[FilmForce]
The BBC issued a press release Saturday officially announcing that David Tennant would be taking over the role of the Doctor in the BBC's re-launched Doctor Who.

[The Independent]
In a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed.

[Planet Magrathea]
HHG movie sucks! Assuming this review is accurate, it somehow still manages to be disappointing, despite being just about exactly what I expected since I first heard details of the project.

[The Long Tail]
Media trends: music, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books—down. Movies, videogames, the web—up.

[The Culture Cult]
The Progress Paradox: The misguided nostalgia for primitive life preceded Rousseau by thousands of years—perhaps as long as civilization itself has existed.

[davidbrin.com]
The Real Culture War: It's not about "left-vs-right" or "morality" or any other 20th Century cliché. The issue is Modernity and how to deal with a new century of change.

[Magma Poetry]
Mistakes poets make (funny, they don't list posting content on the web behind a gate...).

[excite]
Saul Bellow dies.

[pulitzer.org]
2005 Pulitzer Prize winners.

[Wikicities]
From the people who brought you Wikipedia...Wikicities!

[emagazine.com]
The European city model.