Interview with the finest novelist I’ve read in close to a decade, David Mitchell, he of Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green, in Stop Smiling.

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Once again, the mysterious Mykle comes through with more blog fodder: the infamous Steve Albini has been answering all your burning questions and dishing all the dirt…on an online poker forum, of all places. In Albini’s estimation, who are the douchiest Chicago music writers? What was the worst band he ever recorded? Find the answers to all these questions and many, many more, here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=11034555&page=0&fpart=all&vc=1

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Wikipedia gets to the bottom of its lamest edit wars ever (well, at least some of them.) I’m still perplexed by its seemingly arbitrary decisions to in turns reject or embrace the conventions of traditional encyclopedias.