[caderbooks.com]
The bestsellers of the 20th century.

[Making Light]
The life expectancy of books.

[The Chronicle Review]
According to surveys, most of the people in the world say that religion is very important in their lives. Many would say that without it, their lives would be meaningless. Do their lives still have meaning, even though their particular "religion" is a fraud? Or are they merely robotic slaves to a meme that they are unable to evaluate?

[British Library]
The Pope asserts copyright for his—and previous four popes'—words. Evidently making money is now deemed more important than spreading the revealed word of God.

[BBC]
The new Doctor Who series will premiere on SCI FI beginning in March, airing Friday nights at 9.00pm.

[British Library]
The British Library's "Turning the Pages" site, with perusable scans (and in at least one case, audio) of classic texts.

[Electronic Privacy Information Center]
Hoofnagle's Consumer Privacy Top 11 things you can do to protect your privacy.

[Harper's Magazine]
Harper's Yearly Review for 2005.

[Contemporary Poetry Review]
Like the concept of a clockwork universe or God’s divine plan for us, the author-defined connection may already belong to another time, one where the author was an authority figure, creator of his own text, master planner, directing the reader by how he wrote and organized it, line by line, word by word. Now the text is up for grabs...