The Observer's 10 Worst Cover Songs
I Was a Zombie Extra in Romania
Lichtenberg
The Nation praises new Eminem video (no, really)
more on Japanese baby names (turns out Spider-Man is not allowed; surely at some point somebody will write haiku based on the forbidden words)
Queen bootlegs itself
somebody analyzes the politics of Page 3 girls (again: no, really)
a celebration of Scottish gloom
Nobel laureate can't be published in the US
Graham Greene in the Age of Bush
210 channels and still a wasteland
and today's too-much-free-time sites are superhero blogs, not ones about but ones "by" superheroes: Hulk and Green Arrow (I'm waiting for Barbara Gordon's)