Ms. PROSE: I mean I have a chapter on sentences in which I quote Raymond Chandler, and it was just hard not to quote Raymond Chandler all the way through the chapter.

NPR: Could You Be the Great American Novelist?

Spaceflight, to quote the old cliche, is hard, and at some point the Chinese programme will encounter problems.

BBC: China in space: Running fast to catch up

What Lanier describes as "mashup" culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all.

ENGADGET: Book Review: You Are Not a Gadget Alt