how to date
PUBLISHING/MEDIA
Hm. Found on Amazon: How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men.
Itzkoff reviews the new Burning Man book, This Is Burning Man.
Margo Jefferson is the new "avant-garde critic" at the Times.
I try to keep away from linking to Frank Rich columns (mostly because they're already such obvious talking points), but this week's has a lot of my friends talking.
Bryce Zabel, a former chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, does another one of those End of Television as We Know it stories.
MUSIC
Could the B-52's have their career revived a cover of "Paperback Writer" in a Buick advert?
OLYMPICS
The Voice takes on the Fetishizing Atheletes Question that has been a main talking point for this year's Olympics.
ONLINE
Google Answers on Geek Culture.
TECH/SEX
Wired News has started a new column called Sex Drive.
FILM
I ♥ Huckabees faux-ads. Naomi Watts is brilliant. I'm gonna love this film.
RogerEbert.com launches. To include every review since 1967.
CELEBRITY
Have you been watching The Surreal Life on VH1? Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav are hooking up. Though impossible, I wish the last sentence could have been written in 1990.
Edward Furlong: lobster activist or drunk? You decide.
TECH
This could be interesting to those of you into Flash development and/or online communication models: Central and AOL Instant Messaging. Central hasn't exactly taken off, but it still has potential.
LOCAL
Minnesota mysteriously finds itself on the Sunday Times Week In Review page.
The PiPress redesign has been an odd big topic of conversation lately. Poynter has an overview.