A stylish, simple, infographical, curt, and summarily realistic at the world in which we currently live.

A fantastic blog on Japanese language, literature, and culture. I revel in this. (And this is what a blog should be — written only so often, and every post is high-quality. Comments are few and long and educated and of very high quality themselves.)

"The practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise."

"Meet Harriet Klausner, Amazon.com's most prolific reviewer." Over 8,650 reviews, reads four to five books every day.

"Fittingly, the asteroid carried the provisional designation 2001 DA42, thus commemorating the year of his untimely death, containing his initials, and incorporating the famous answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything."