This Week's U.S. War Casualties: The deaths of five U.S. servicemembers in Afghanistan were announced this past ... bit.ly/P8PXCC

This Week's U.S. War Casualties: The deaths of three U.S. servicemembers in Afghanistan were announced this past... bit.ly/Ppkegx

Attending the Florida Heritage Book Festival: At the Florida Heritage Book Festival in St. Augustine this past w... bit.ly/U4Jmhm

This Week's U.S. War Casualties: The deaths of seven U.S. service members in Afghanistan were announced this pas... bit.ly/PYPnGl

Glenn Kessler's Fact Checking is for the Birds: Glenn Kessler, the fact-checking columnist of the Washington Pos... bit.ly/VQS9Ek

Step Right Up and Win Some Crap: I'm running a presidential prediction contest on the Drudge Retort today:Presid... bit.ly/Wqzxg5

Last Note for Brahms and the Year 1896: The world's oldest person, Besse Cooper, died Tuesday at a nursing home ... bit.ly/11XwH0X

The World Already Has Enough Artists?: I maintain a list on Twitter of all Hugo Award-nominated best novel write... bit.ly/11QR9S1

No Social Networking in 'Social Network': I saw the film Social Network for the first time last night after lett... bit.ly/U6KNI0

Times Columnist Roger Cohen Borrows Quotes: The New York Times columnist Roger Cohen engages in some ethically q... bit.ly/X1fHm9

Times Responds to Roger Cohen's Mistake: I sent New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan an email yesterda... bit.ly/U4Hm5i

Boot Device Not Found, Brain Also Missing: My desktop PC, an HP Pavilion p6000, crashed this morning and won't b... bit.ly/VXiim2

Review: 'Kiss of the Spider Woman': I just finished reading Kiss of the Spider Woman, the 1976 Manuel Puig novel... bit.ly/UoGiZA

Remember Friedrich Franz III No More: Less than two weeks after she became the world's oldest person, Dina Manfr... bit.ly/UvL9ss

Oklahoma City Time Capsule Buried in 1913: While doing some research in Google Books, I found an item in the May... bit.ly/ZKztIw

There's No Way to Bury a Mass Shooter's Name: There's a lot of talk about how the media should adopt a self-impo... bit.ly/SVFxMi

Now Serving: 45,000 Restaurant Menus: I found a cool resource today for writers of fiction set in past decades. ... bit.ly/ZyEPXo

AP Launches News Archive Going Back to '70s: Associated Press has quietly launched a beta of the AP News Archive... bit.ly/XJYXpa

Christopher Tolkien Hates the Peter Jackson Movies: Christopher Tolkien, the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, gave his fir... bit.ly/ZsVG9i

Mister Mystery: Why Papers Keep Using Honorifics: This paragraph in a Wall Street Journal story on Lance Armstro... bit.ly/VgaXLO