I just added some stuff to my Amazon wish list....

Just read it. It's really funny. Trust me.

Kurt Vonnegut has died.

This is a sad day. Vonnegut's writing was pretty much the antithesis of most of my other favorites writers - Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Neal Stephenson - but his name doesn't seem out of place on that list. His writing is so concise and so sharp. It cuts like a knife.

I suddenly feel like spending the day curled up in a chair with a stack of books and a pot of coffee.

• Supreme Court rules greenhouse gases a pollutant

This looks interesting. Doesn't appear to have support for many-to-many relationships or generating properties that are themselves objects, but it might be useful for a little project I'm working on.

The RIAA is insisting on deposing 10 year old Tanya Andersen face-to-face in their lawsuit against her for copyright infringement. The alleged infringement took place when she was seven. If they served snack I'd sign my kids up.

10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World.

• Information Leafblower's Top 40 Bands in America 2006
• Prospect Magazine's Most Over- and Under-rated Books of 2006

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Little Brown is publishing a new paperback version of the novel. IJ is a magnificent book, one that can be mentioned in the same breathe as Gravity's Rainbow, Cryptonomicon, and Underworld. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it.

Dave Eggers has written the foreward to the new edition, and like his other writing, it's somewhat hit or miss.