[YouTube]
Gnarls Barkley—"Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" [video]

[Poetry Foundation]
Systematic development is out; obliquity, fracture, and discontinuity are in. Especially among young poets, there is a widespread mistrust of narrative forms and, in fact, a pervasive sense of the inadequacy or exhaustion of all modes other than the associative. Under the label of “narrative,” all kinds of poetry currently get lumped misleadingly together: not just story but discursion, argument, even descriptive lyrics. They might better be called the “Poetries of Continuity.”

[Pittsburg Post-Gazette]
Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose final lecture inspired millions, died early today in Virginia of pancreatic cancer.

And for those who missed it, his last lecture.

[Los Angeles Times]
Toward a Type 1 civilization.

[Pharyngula]
It's just a cracker.

[The New York Times]
Kay Ryan named new Poet Laureate.

[FORA.tv]
Interesting lecture by Neal Stephenson [video].

[Online University Reviews]
The Top 100 Liberal Arts Professor Blogs.

[The Globe and Mail]
Five experts pick their Top 10 Canadian novels.