Neil Gaiman wrote something for the NY Times

the science of invisibility cloaks

NY Times on key words...
"as Google — and other search engines — become increasingly dominant arbiters of a word’s meaning and usage, the pages that rank highly for a given key word will have a disproportionate impact on the popular understanding of what those words mean."

article about Edward Gorey

Haruki Murakami won a prize from the Czechs

NY Times on CMJ

Five Most Gifted Weirdos

Here's an article about Elf Power

Here's a Decemberists article
and here CMeloy talks about songs

M. Ward's ipod on random
Eric Bachmann's ipod on random

Stream the Sufjan XMas set

No Eight nights of yo la tengo this year

Tip: Subscribe to eMusic now, because they're reducing the number of songs per monthly price level.
Newish stuff on eMusic:
formerly limited edition Songs: Ohia
the Mogwai Zidane soundtrack
the Exploding Hearts compilation
Aimee Mann sings Xmas
Animal Collective

Badly Drawn Boy podcast
part 1
part 2
part 3

Of Montreal Daytrotter session

sounds like we get to meet Vincent D'Onofrio's mother on Law and Order soon