[BRIEF NOTE] Blogospheric Roundup

[rfmcdonald]

What have I been reading in the blogosphere lately? A few things.

• You know about scholar.google.com, right?


• From New York City, aa_bronson writes about the opening of the Museum of Modern Art.


• angel80 went shopping with friends and found some beautiful things.


• Nick Barlow is kind enough to let us know that the Czech Republic isn't the only contentedly agnostic-verging-on-atheist society in Europe.


• charlemagne77 produces two essays: one essay on Theodore Dalrymple's simple-minded anti-intellectualism, and another one letting us all know what we should be reading.


• The inimitable Head Heeb examines just what will happen in a coming era when won't only be sovereign states that implement the Montevideo Convention.


• Over at Democratic Freedoms, pimpsophist is making the best case for libertarianism that I've ever read.


• Pearsall Helms, in two posts, examines the reasons for the ultimate failure of Puritanism in mid-17th century England.


• At the risk of sounding condescending to fans of a genre of music that I respect and wish to learn more about, imomus is a rather impressively literate and knowledgeable techno musician. Thanks, piratehead!


• Apologies go out to eternityfan for not mentioning her note, at Aufbau Ost, on the underrepresentation of East Germans in German national media and popular culture.
  
• Jason Kuznicki explains just what Alexander was about sexually, very nicely.


• Thanks go out to Douglas Muir for proving that, yes, early morning Bucharest is similar to early morning Toronto.


• Over at Crooked Timber, John Quiggin speculates whether the early 21st century People's Republic of China resembles no country so much as Suharto's Indonesia a decade ago.
  
• quuf takes the Italy-is-a-boot metaphor and runs with it.


• What do we actually do with operating manuals? simonff reminds us.