I think I am going to follow Anil's example and have a daily links side bar kind of thing. However, I want to loosely categorise the links so that I can look them up later if I want to. I'll figure it out as I go along ...

Michael Wolff has a highly readable story in NY Metro about the ouster of Ann Godoff from Random House. (via mobilives)

Five wars of globalization is an analysis of how cross border illicit trades in drugs, arms, intellectual property, people, and money are raging and how governments are losing that fight. I haven't read it yet. But it looks like a damn good read. (via Z+blog)

Timothy Garton Ash's article on Anti-Europeanism in America is very well written. There is thread on this on mefi somewhere. I'll link to it later.

Also, someone ought to tell that judge that Bappi Lahiri became famous only through outrageously ripping other people's music. They should have forced the prosecution to listen to some of the crap that this guy produces. (via Anil)