Johnny Cash died last night in Nashville. Just four months after his love, June Carter Cash passed away. May they be reunited in the sky.

Ten Woody Allen title screens. Apropos of an interesting discussion about what typeface he uses.

Canadian (though American-born) author Carol Shields has died at age 68 in Victoria, BC. She had fought cancer for some time, but nevertheless it’s a very sad day for Canadian letters.

Artistic Sign Language: Signs of the Coming Bush Fall by Bernard Weiner. Link courtesy of Caterina.net. “In all three cases, symbolic shrouds are placed over art, so that nobody will notice the bad things that are being done in American citizens’ names.”

in a whole bunch of different things in the past couple of years, but when I first came across the guy a couple of years ago (FOAF) he was mostly a budding science fiction writer. Add to that entrepreneur, activist, blogger extraordinaire, and it seems a dozen other things, but in the end it still comes back to his fiction I guess. This week Cory published his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and it seems to be a tremendous success. He’s testing a model I think is very smart too – offering a free version to download on the principal that it doesn’t reduce sales but increases sales. I know I’m buying it; you should too.