worth reading • from the New Yorker Anthony Grafton muses on digitization and its discontents.

site to see • the Ayn Rand Lexicon is online, “a mini-encyclopedia of objectivism, compiled from Ayn’s own statements on 400 topics.” – oh great just what the world needs right now – more dog eat dog shit.

worth hearing • From NPRs All Things Considered, Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist talks about his new adventure novel Gentlemen of the Road