Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers
Oh, this is rich. Through some technological glitch, Amazon's Canadian site "suddenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the United States site under signatures like "a reader from New York." This glitch, which has since been fixed "provided a rare glimpse at how writers and readers are wielding the online reviews as a tool to promote or pan a book — when they think no one is watching." So come to find out that authors, and not just new or unknown authors but folks like Eggers and Franzen, are shamelessly and anonymously promoting themselves and vilifying their enemies on Amazon. So technology, the market, and democracy all intersect in supposedly novel ways only to reveal that human behavior remains rather banal.
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adventures of confessions of saint augustine bear
This is by the "get your war on" guy. It is what the title suggests: a comic strip about a bear, whose dialogue consists mostly of passages from Augustine, going about his bear business. It's pretty amusing, especially the first one.
