Wednesday links

Timeline of Key Events in Lebanon (Infoplease.com)

USB-Powered Air-Conditioned Clotes (Newlaunches.com)

The National Hurricane Safety Initiative

Illinois Traffic Alert System

The Story Starter

British Open

This year the British Open, one of professional golf's majors, takes place at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, England.

This blogger doesn't golf at all (with the exception of some horrible rounds of mini golf and 6 holes on a "real" golf course in North Carolina) but manages to find herself glued to the TV whenever one of the majors comes down to the wire.

If you want something to read or listen to during of the many commercials during the tournament this weekend, check out John Feinstein's The Majors: In Pursuit of Golf's Holy Grail.

Think you've well-read?

According to this list, you're probably not. Your blogger has read a mere thirty-something of the books featured in 1001 Books To Read Before You Die.

Time to get back to reading. After I get off work of course. ;)

Recently reviewed books

T.C. Boyle's Talk, Talk (New York Times Review)



J. C. Hallman's The Devil is a Gentleman: Exploring America's Religious Fringe (New York Times Review)




Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August : an Indian story (New York Times Review)



Peter Robinson's Piece of My Heart (New York Times Review)



James Carroll's House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power (New York Times Review)