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This makes me tremendously happy — The Economist is now available as a Kindle subscription. Interestingly, it’s priced almost identically to the dead tree subscription, which is causing a rare amount of bitching in the Amazon reviews from those who don’t understand the, erm, economics of magazine production. (Clue: Adding dead-tree subscribers increases the rate you can charge advertisers. Adding advertising-free Kindle subscribers doesn’t.)

Good Economist article about how “the Dunbar number” relates to online social networks, with some interesting stats about friend groups on Facebook.

The Economist replies in their characteristically classy manner when Stephen Dubner accuses them of misspelling “pastries”. (And now I find myself craving a Ginster’s…)

Things I never thought I’d hear: Nerdcore rapping about The Economist.

The Economist has an outstanding US Politics blog. In depth, funny and required reading.

Not-quite-a-podcast from The Economist — The entire issue each week as a talking-book. Each section of the magazine is a separate MP3 file, so you can “read” the bits that interest you. Free to subscribers.