The post to end all posts
Here lie links I don't want to lose but don't want to clog my bookmarks folder, either. They go to show that for all the compulsive instaneity of blogs, sometimes the most worthwhile links are to longer and older pieces of writing.

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• 2Blowhards on bestseller lists, Mozart's economics, and Frank Lloyd Wright

• Alfred Bierstadt paintings

• Archaelogy interview with Robin Lane Fox, classics scholar and advisor to the film Alexander.

• Atlantic Monthly on truth and articulation, the computer delusion, Annie Dillard on appalling fecundity, the Market as God, the moral state of marriage, the state of America in 1987, Guglielmo Ferrero in 1913 on the riddle of America, and David Brooks on democratic elitism

• The Australian on Shakespeare

• Banner of Truth archive; pedestrian lives and glorious destiny

• The BBC on a ride in the clouds of Eritrea

• Beliefnet on Science and Religion: The New Convergence; Gregg Easterbrook on secular humanism; Alan Wolfe on Rick Santorum.

• Blogistan Theology blog

• Books&Culture: C. Stephen Evans on Kierkegaard, jottings on back of movie poster

• Book Magazine on the lives of fiction writers

• Boston Globe on the no-kids movement

• Brain, Child on what motherhood does to you

• Brad DeLong review of Guns, Germs and Steel

• Brookings Review on Russia's geography and economics and trends in math

• BrothersJudd.com review of Nickel and Dimed

• Butterflies&Wheels on postmodernism and truth

• ByFaithOnline Paul in Athens; Do Not Be Conformed

• California State's Michael Foucault pages

• Calhoun Community College on Southern Literature and Culture

• Calvin College exhibit: Religious Observation within American Protestant Homes; Lewis Smedes obit and links

• Calvin Institute of Christian Worship on justice in worship and Neal Plantinga on Isaiah 60

• Calvin Theological Journal: John Bolt on common grace and civic good

• CBS News on online searches for classmates
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/05/60II/main552363.shtml

• Center of Theological Inquiry on Einstein and God (more here and here); Stanley Hauerwas on Bonhoeffer; Moltmann on Western values; N.T. Wright on Paul and Caesar

• Chicago Reader's Straight Dope column on butlers in whodunits, deja vu, the hiccups, the right to bear arms
and more

• Chicago Tribune on Dave Eggers, Julia Keller's Pulitzer

• Chimes on Grand Rapids sports

• Christian History on the Reformation and the sola scriptura principle, Calvin and missions

• Christianism bibliography; NT history

• Christianity Today on the definition of an evangelical, tradition vs Scripture, why not to imitate Christ, Robert Bellah and the sociology of religion, why God loves baseball, Philip Yancey on the need for gracious evangelicalism and holy sex

• Christian Science Monitor on how a bullet started a friendship in South Africa

• Christian Thinktank on the soul; women in Paul's epistles

• Chronicle of Higher Education on the economics of government help for the poor, the study of emotions, Shakespeare and pop culture, Is grad school a cult?

• Comment on the next neo-Calvinism; our civic ties; CCO Jubilee on Kupyer

• C.S. Lewis links index and book synopses; quotes from The Weight of Glory. More apologetics links

• Dead Poets Society script

• Debra Rienstra's Great With Child reviews

• Democracy in America text

• Detroit News on malls and 'lifestyle centers', Billy Sunday, more Detroit history

• DoHistory's Martha Ballard's diary

• The Economist on the homosexuality in the 19th century (more), review of The Earth: An Intimate History
on eBay

• Elliott Bay Booknotes on books on deserts, on indep bookstores (more)

• ESPN.com on athletes and video games

• FAA.gov on bird strikes and migration patterns

• First Things on the history of moral philosophy, Jane Austen and theology

• Flak on sports franchises and economic development

• Forbes on neuroscience and marketing

• Founders.org on evangelism and Calvinism

• Gadfly on a day in the life of a Parisian cafe

• Geoff Nunberg's timeline of the history of information

• G.K. Chesterton quotes

• Good Will Hunting script draft

• Globalization bibliography

• GreenwichMeanTime.com on the uses of GMT

• The Guardian Beethoven's lover, Google tricks, on Chekhov, reviews of Space Between Our Ears, Our Shadowed Present, Living With a Writer, Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life, Myths We Live By, Unbearable Lightness of Being

• Haddon Robinson sermons

• Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Suit (1837)

• Hornes.org on a Calvinist Christmas

• HUD on West Michigan regional activity

• Hudson Review on Ovid

• Human Nature Review on evolutionary psychology

• Isaiah Berlin's Two Concepts of Liberty

• James Lileks on political lumping and a day in his life

• John Ellis blog

• James Wood on John Updike, on beauty, on J.M. Coetzee

• Jonathan Harwell links

• Kalamazoo's historic buildings

• Lawrence Crowl on the naming of the months (more here, here, here, here, here, and here)

• LinksNorth.com on the history of Canada

• Linguistix on the relationship between knowledge and understanding

• The London Review of Books on Pattern Recognition, conjoined twins, the history of touch and power, the politics of sin in American history, Left Behind, and Terry Eagleton on The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

• Mad About You finale script

• Martin Marty on Christianity and Literature and Irony and Religion

• MaryLaine.com's neat new Net stuff

• Matrix review essays here, here and here

• Melbourne Age on sex in the suburbs

• Michigan History back issues

• Monty Python scripts

• NPR's Fresh Air interviews with Simpsons writers and actors

• The New Criterion on Hugh Kenner (more) and the role of the critic

• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (contents)

• The New Republic: Richard Posner on Sherlock Holmes

• New York magazine Michael Wolff archive; David Denby on Wag the Dog

• New York Observer Jason Gay archive

• New York Review of Books on gays and genes, Mark Twain, history of masturbation, review of Nature via Nurture

• New York Times on its font change; series: six months in the life of a NYC classroom; how non-profits are benefiting from post-bust dot-com real estate vacancies; air passengers carrying on meals; strangers carpooling; cellphone towers in church steeples; writing students expecting hollywood offers; anniversary of NASDAQ peak; faith vs. reason; virtual museums; more on museums; the metaphors of football; A.O. Scott on the history of sex research; Peter Steinfels on Walter Rauschenbusch and the social gospel; review of Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps; review of James Wood's Book Against God

• New Yorker on traffic; the history of childhood; Tocqueville (more); Stanley and Livingstone; James Wood on God's Secretaries; scandals at the NY Times and CBS News (more); Roger Angell on the Red Sox' championship; Richard Wilbur's poetry; writer's block; Desperate Housewives; Nicholas Lemann on hatred of the media

• Nietzsche's second "Untimely Meditation," review

• Ohio U on agenda-setting and the media

• Oregon State's Daniel Taylor on Roman coins

• Oxford American back issues

• Religion-online.org link

• Philosophy Now on Charlie Brown as an existentialist

• Plus on why cars in the next lane go faster

• Policy Review author index; Martha Nussbaum and the cosmopolitan illusion; Mark Bowden on the transcontinental railroad; review of Elizabeth Cohen's A Consumer's Republic

• Poynter Institute on the New York Times Book Review

• Positionem on the Pruitt-Igoe projects

• Programs for the Theological Exploration of Vocation link

• Public Culture articles

• Raleigh News-Observer: Yanet Shimron on Stanley Hauerwas

• Reason on All Culture, All the Time

• Rebecca Mead on Sophie's World

• Read recently by Fernando Gouvêa

• Reformed Reading List by R. Scott Clark / more

• Religious Thought in the West bibliography

• Richard Rorty on fascism in postmodernism

• Robert Putnam on the Strange Disappearance of Civic America

• Salon: Anne Lamott archive; Confessions of a semi-successful author

• San Diego Union-Tribune on Detroit's Comerica Park

• San Jose State on Inductive vs Deductive reasoning

• Scientific American on The Brain in Love

• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: blog

• Seattle Times: Life today would seem a fantasy in 1900

• Slate on secular life ceremonies; media bias; review of A&E's 'Airline'; voice-over voices

• SNPP.com on The Simpsons as social satire

• Smithsonian on Rockwell Kent; the history of American transportation

• Sports Illustrated Steve Rushin archive/Cheatin' Hearts; sports smells; World Series archive

• Sports Night scripts

• Stanley Fish on academic administration

• Sydney Morning Herald on personal ads

• StretcherBearers.com review of Paul Tournier's Meaning of Persons

• San Francisco Chronicle on older bachelors

• This American Life Shoulda Been Dead

• TimPorter.com on the nature of journalism/more

• Tom Wolfe's Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died

• Touchstone: Alan Jacobs on the Apocalypse

• UR Chicago on keeping the faith

• USA Today on the 10 hardest things to do in sports, minorities becoming majority in more U.S. areas

• U of Virginia on The Puritan Tradition and American Memory

• Virginia Postrel on Dallas megachurches and other D Mag Spaces columns; consumption patterns in an experience economy

• The Washington Post on the burst of the baby boomer bubble; profile of Lloyd Nance, USDA grader; abuse of indigenous Saskatchewanians; a football team as the soul of a Montana town/review of The Meaning of Sports; More being treated for depression; ad placement in video games; Paul Theroux on The Writing Life; profile of John Updike; Jay Rosen on What Liberal Media?; newsless networks; the Google-ization of the world; ping-pong; Annapolis politics; Michael Kinsley on the future of capitalism

• Washington University course on Information Research Strategies in History

• WBUR's The Connection on Marshall McLuhan

• The Week on how Google and eBay conquered the world

• Washington Monthly on courtship

• Wired News on the sorry state of e-books; blogging Alzheimers patients