The Awl has put together a list of first appearances of profanity in The New Yorker. 'Slut' was used in 1974 but the super-duper dirty word VAGINA didn't appear until 1995. Fact. Make of that what you will. (via Metafilter)
Some stupid psychologist on some stupid Christian website has opined that she is seeing a growing number of women "clinically addicted" to romance novels. It's the careful usage of 'clinically' that cracks me up. Anyways, this stirred up the twittersphere, with #romancekills trending big time and one author (Jason Pinter) claiming that King George VI's stutter was caused by remembering sex scenes on the page (The Guardian).
From of the department of No, I'm not really sure why, either: This Bloomsday, a 'volunteer army' will tweet Joyce's Ulysses. The whole thing. 140 characters at a time. Fucking book nerds, man, I don't know. (WritersWrite)
The National Academies Press is now offering its catalog (4000 titles science science science) as free downloads (Metafilter). More online goodness: Next fall, Centre Pompidou in France will create the world's largest internet-accessible collection of modern art. (TeleRead)
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