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• Arts & Letters Daily Writing on…writing, drawing, music and other culture. If the featured content doesn’t interest you something in the continually-changing ‘Nota Bene’ section down the left column will.
• Jewish Ideas Daily Collected intelligent writing on a wide-ranging set of Judaic topics and opinions.
• Powell's Book Blog If your travels take you to Portland, OR stop in at Powells for an afternoon. Just do it; trust me. In the meantime, read their blog on authors, publishers, trends, literature and booklovers for a taste of what you’re missing.
• Signal vs. Noise Blogging on the design and usability of things in general by 37 Signals, a Chicago-based web design firm. If “design” sounds boring, it isn’t…
• The Big Picture The news in pictures…and some of the most amazing pictures I’ve ever seen.
• The Economist: Lexington The respected English magazine’s column devoted to all things American with their own distinctive flair; a look at ourselves from outside.
• The Wordnik Word Of The Day The amazing, amusing and sometimes just-downright-bizarre English language, dolled out one word per day. A word-nerd’s paradise.
• Unquiet Thoughts Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker magazine, writes on a bewildering range of music topics. When he sleeps, I know not.
• When Saturday Comes In best self-deprecating British style: “the half-decent football magazine” (where football == what we in the U.S. label as soccer.) Even if I didn’t love soccer I’d enjoy WSC: exhibit #1 that “quality writing about sport” isn’t a complete oxymoron.

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