“You are the Product." John Lanchester, brilliant as always, in the London Review on why Facebook is terrifying.

D is for dreary.

Stunning: “The Majestic Marble Quarries of Northern Italy”, h/t Prufrock News.

Sandbar, with canoe. Cross Lake, MN.

“The Economics of the Protestant Reformation”. (I love when academic research like this is freely accessible, btw. One of the most frustrating things about my discipline, literary studies, is how dependent the discipline is upon noxious gatekeepers like JSTOR.)