links for 2007-07-09

• Rising Hegemon: Things I did not know: Maureen Dowd gets six-figures or more... to ghost write for TigerBeat.
• Richard K. Morgan: Broken Angels
• Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon
• David Kirsch and Brent Goldfarb: Small Ideas, Big Ideas, Bad Ideas, Good Ideas: 'Get Big Fast' and Dot Com Venture Creation
• On its third try, the New York Times succeeds in hiring an ombudsman: Clark Hoyt
• Matthew Yglesias: Andrew... missed the worst part... the part where Fumento gets upset that... "one of the few good guys in the movie, the head of the FBI team that aids our hero John McCain, looks decidedly Arabic."
• Movies: I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
• Movies: Knocked Up
• Movies: Idiocracy
• Underbelly: Roth, Zweig and the Ostjuden
• MaxSpeak, You Listen!: I saw a few hours of Live Aid. It was a nice tour of the last 25 years of music that I have ignored. Gore's cooptation of NBC was impressive, and vice-versa. I'm not bothered by the pointless voluntarism theme. After you try volunta
• Captain Blythers Restaurant - Benicia