Thursday assorted links
1. No tip, but an economics card instead (don’t try this on your next date).
3. Someone likes a William Vollmann novel. There are other rave reviews, but so far I can’t get through the first five pages. Still, I admire what he is trying to do.
4. You people made a mistake when you stopped buying CDs. Here is Alex Ross on the same.
5. Wage insurance? (ha)
6. Arab Gulf states vastly outspend Iran on military. And paper and packaging are still a $132 billion a year industry. The key medium for the new ads for paper is…the internet.