The word spreads: When it comes to cuisine, Spain is the new France. Furious innovation, imaginations bouncing off each other. Read more if you're a foodie, gatronome, or chef.

Real research. A scientist uses the human body to generate electricity, the better to power small or nanoscale gizmos. Toward Our Matrix Future.

The day the blogging died, by Christian Crumlish. I'm in verse six:

And the three men I admire most,
Phil Wolff, Mark Pilgrim, and Steve Yost
Kept editing their final post
The day the blogging died
And they were singin' …

Very good company.

Folk songs capture a moment in time. Songs like American Pie abound in cultural reference. Likewise, Blogistan Pie is meaningful to the small culture of metabloggers and blog software developers. The lyrics are a key that illuminates both the memes of the moment and our tribe's social network. The hyperlinks added to the lyrics (hyperlyrics?) are declare many of those references. Any student of blogging history could do worse than to surf them, even to deadblog or the Internet Archives.