[Guardian Unlimited]
Cory Doctorow: Copyright law should distinguish between commercial and cultural uses.

[Wired]
Bruce Schneier: The debate isn't security versus privacy. It's liberty versus control.

[Chicago Tribune]
For the first time in at least 40 years—and possibly since the Depression—the median price declined for an existing single-family home across the country, according to a new report by the National Association of Realtors.

[TheAtlantic.com]
The Atlantic magazine drops its online paywall, making all content (an archive going back to 1857) freely accessible.

[FoodNetwork.com]
FoodNetwork.com's 100 best recipes of 2007.

[The Chronicle Review]
The American dream of happiness might be a nightmare. What passes for bliss could well be a dystopia of flaccid grins. Our passion for felicity hints at an ominous hatred for all that grows and thrives and then dies. I'd hate for us to awaken one morning and regret what we've done in the name of untroubled enjoyment. I'd hate for us to crawl out of our beds and walk out into a country denuded of gorgeous lonely roads and the grandeur of desolate hotels, of half-cracked geniuses and their frantic poems. I'd hate for us to come to consciousness when it's too late to live.

[The Online Books Page]
Prize-winning books you can read online.

[Sentient Developments]
Overcoming gender: Your gender assignment and sense of sexual identity is an imposition. Like many of your other characteristics, you are largely the result of a genetic lottery that happened beyond your control. Consequently, you are in no small way predetermined. Your physical and psychological capabilities are very much constrained and dictated by your genetic constitution.

[Guardian Unlimited]
Liked Blogging the Bible? Try Blogging the Qu'ran.

[The Free Information Society]
Empower yourself through education.

[Food Timeline]
Ever wonder what foods the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why?