8 September 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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If it can usurp racism, agriculture could revitalize the poorest county in the United States.
Instapaper for the commute: How to honor hell on earth.
Kenya is drying to dust, but aid groups are hesistant to wade in, wary of the government's failures.
If you love music, and you have a curious mind, there has never been a better time to be alive. Nick Hornby on mp3 blogs.
Shoe-mad report by Alexandra Jacobs from inside Zappos.com.
In case you missed it: part two of our music-bloggers roundtable.
Primer on improving your handwriting by writing in italics.
George Hamilton wanted to be a doctor, but his parents gave him no recourse but to be a movie star.
Melville vs. Hawthorne, Rimbaud vs. Verlaine, and other stories of authors who feuded.
"Impolite" interview with Shel Silverstein about trying to make it in New York.
Brief profile of Jim O'Rourke's new life in Japan; new Radiolab episode, "Parasites."
Belgium in the shape of a lion, California as an island, and other strange, ancient maps.
Professional yo-yoists can incur ruined veins and dislocated knees.
List of 50 things "being killed by the internet."
