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Hitchcock, Thrilling the Ears as Well as the Eyes: The score from Vertigo is my favorite Hitchcock music.

Are libraries becoming obsolete?

Richard B. Woodward on the Saddam execution video: “[it] proves again that no act is too gruesome or intimate that someone won’t try to take a picture of it and share it with the wired world. We better get used to living without visual boundaries — and with the curiosity and flexible morality of the … Read more

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?” In the semiotics of mess, desks may be the richest texts.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gets an interview from the Secret Service for using $2 bills.

TIME introduces 25 Top Ten Lists 2006 which includes, among others, its Top Ten Websites.

Charles Halton has some good suggestions for education reform.

War of the Worlds meets Belgium: A fake TV spot saying Belgium had erupted into civil war dupes many. Compare the public reaction to a 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.

Is Morality Relative When It Comes to Relatives? — Albert Mohler on the Cheney situation, and how it sheds light on how we often act differently when kinfolk go astray.

Whitewashing Jesus: Why has the portrayal of Jesus in art drifted far from the likelihood he was a brown-skinned Semitic Jew?