[The New York Times]
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2008.

[Google]
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

[MoOM]
The Museum of Online Museums.

[Slate]
The latest research on the correlation between religion and "niceness."

[Telegraph.co.uk]
Garden gnomes banned from church cemetery because they are "unnatural creatures."

[The Big Read]
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.

[Arion]
Camille Paglia discusses the selection process for Break, Blow, Burn.

[MemeTracker]
MemeTracker builds maps of the daily news cycle by analyzing around 900,000 news stories and blog posts per day from 1 million online sources, ranging from mass media to personal blogs.

[ProPublica]
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Investigative journalism is at risk. This is therefore a moment when new models are necessary to carry forward some of the great work of journalism in the public interest that is such an integral part of self-government, and thus an important bulwark of our democracy.