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Excellent and timely curmudgeoning by Christopher Hitchens.

Greate article on “Rock Band” by Carrie Brownstein. “If you are going to play the game with a group of friends for more than a night, shouldn’t you just form a real band? There is something sad about the thought of four teenagers getting Rock Band for Christmas and spending all of their after-school time pretending to know how to play.”

Former baseball player finds a box of fan mail from 1991 while cleaning his garage, and replies to them!

Reddit launch a branded sub-site just for Slate articles, essentially becoming the “official” place to comment on and rate Slate articles. An interesting joint venture, showing there’s more to the Web 2.0 businessplan than just “targetted advertising”.

If I ever write a patent, I’m going to sneak in the phrase “The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell”.