interlude: link farming

I still find time to read much of what Google Reader brings my way.

Michael Kimmelman has a fine piece in the New York Times about Greece's latest request that Britain return the Elgin marbles, and more generally about the nature and motives of those kinds of arguments.

This is a nation with priorities. My school is planning to run the games throughout the building to five big projectors.

I'm not the only one who goes on quests in foreign cultures. This guy tried to take a book out of the Delhi library.

More motivation to go make a ton of money somehow.

And finally, here's a guy who had an opening experience, and kept going with it to discover what's underneath. Not a perfect article, but it's pretty good.