[StephenFry.com]
A superb new blog by actor and author, Stephen Fry.

[Telegraph.co.uk]
Fears for the future of the literary novel have been heightened by the revelation that a book by Katie Price, the surgically enhanced model, has outsold the entire Booker Prize shortlist.

[YouTube]
Copwatchers: The purpose of this channel is to provide one space where we can upload video evidence of police abusing their powers for all to see,the aim being that if they know we are paying attention and watching them,they will have to behave in the right manner and observe what civil rights we still have left..

[YouTube]
Bill Maher on whether there should be a religious test for office.

[Guardian Unlimited]
Writers' rooms.

[PoetryFoundation.com]
Poetry bestsellers list.

[YouTube]
7 minutes of truth (bonus: it's funny!).

[Blogger.com]
Live slideshow of images as they are uploaded to Blogger.

[Scholarpedia]
Wikipedia written by experts?

[ScienceDaily]
What happens to poetry in the Digital Age? In one of the first academic works in the field, Swedish researcher Maria Engberg has studied how the ability of the computer to combine words, images, movement, and sounds is impacting both writing and reading.

[BBC News]
Suspected pro-Taleban militants have tried to blow up an ancient carving of Buddha in north-west Pakistan. The 2200-yr-old statue in Swat valley is considered the largest in Asia since the destruction of the two Bamiyan Buddhas.

[Poetry Foundation]
What sites/blogs do poets read online?

[Times Online]
Dawkins reviews Hitchens.

[Los Angeles Times]
On reclusive writers.

[WashingtonPost.com]
Daniel C. Dennett: How many millions of priests, pastors, rabbis, imams, nuns and monks around the world are living lives of similar duplicity? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the outing of Mother Teresa inspired a few thousand of them to come out of the closet and acknowledge their atheism! Then it might start being obvious not only that faith in God is not a requirement for morality, but that the loss of faith in God often goads people into living more strenuously helpful lives.

[The Hugo Awards]
Complete list of 2007 Hugo Award winners.