Elsewhere on the Internet! A (Mostly) Non-Media Linkfest

•Now, realtors are backing out of newspaper advertising. Curse you, Craig Newmark! (RQ)

•Just want to mention the brilliance of the category tag for this post – “Scott La-Rocked”  (CH)

•Mad magazine’s grotesque cartoonist and illustrator Basil Wolverton moves from magazine cover to gallery this august: “The images in pen and ink — Wolverton worked almost exclusively in this medium — were a virtuoso exercise in bad taste, made all the weirder for being so meticulously executed.” (ZT)

•Yes, we’ve all had Harry Potter on the brain today; this is still pretty great. (RQ)

•Cool Big Think interview with a top “Late Show” staff writer. “Dave [Letterman] has gotten older, but the average writer has stayed the same. So they bring in their sensibilities and they try to interject it in the show. And so the show’s comedic sensibility changes.” (RQ)

•Slate‘s News Junkie Smackdown pits newspaper readers and web surfers against each other to see who’s better informed. Infotainment! (RQ)

•Good to see Governor Palin is up to being her old, kooky self in the last days of her administration. (JB)

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