Submitted For Your Perusal

1. “Ask Me About My Flux Capacitor”

“Ms. Reilly, a design enthusiast, began the hunt for her DeLorean six years ago — as a birthday present to herself. She spent a year doing research, learning all she could about the DeLorean’s characteristics and quirks. She spent another year looking for the right car — black interior, gas flap (in later models, access to the tank was under the hood), the optional automatic transmission — before settling on one. She bought it on eBay for $13,000 in 2004. Since then, life has been a chain of small adventures.”

2. “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop”

“To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the stress of the work contributed to their deaths. But friends and family of the deceased, and fellow information workers, say those deaths have them thinking about the dangers of their work style.”

3. “Suzuki Is Nearing Milestones at an Unprecedented Pace”

“The Japanese-born Suzuki, in his eighth season in the major leagues, is on the verge of several significant achievements. He entered the season 130 hits short of 3,000 for his two-country career and could become the youngest player in history to reach that professional milestone, although it would not be an official major league record. He is also approaching the most career hits for a Japanese player, needing 216.

“In addition, he is seeking 200 hits for a record eighth consecutive season, which would tie him with the turn-of-the-19th-century star Wee Willie Keeler, who did it from 1894 to 1901.”

4. “Let Computers Compute. It’s the Age of the Right Brain.”

“Now that computers can emulate many of the sequential skills of the brain’s left hemisphere — the part that sees the individual trees in a forest — the author Daniel Pink argues that it’s time for our imaginative right brain, which sees the entire forest all at once, to take center stage.”

5. “Online Commercials: Now That’s a Hard Sell”

“Hulu has only short clips for other programs, rather than full episodes. That’s understandable for ‘Saturday Night Live’ but not for ‘Law & Order.’ It also has 110 movies, mostly titles that failed to impress critics, like Dude, Where’s My Car?, and fills out its catalog with long-forgotten television shows like ‘Adam-12.’”

6. “Stretching for a New Film Role: The Lead”

“He has played characters created by John Updike and the Coen brothers. He was the psychiatrist in There’s Something About Mary who pretended to listen as Ben Stiller’s character droned on about his romantic problems. In Flirting With Disaster he was the gay federal agent who ran through the desert in his underwear after inadvertently eating a meal laced with drugs. He’s been the ghost of an undertaker who gets pulverized by a bus in Six Feet Under and Woody Allen’s doctor in Hannah and Her Sisters.

“But now, after playing supporting roles for the better part of three decades, he is finally getting his shot at being the leading man.”

7. “First Came Crazy, Now Comes Odd”

“Earlier, while Danger Mouse napped, Cee-Lo made the same point. He said that he grew up listening to funk and hip-hop, and ‘everybody from ABC to R.E.M., Billy Joel to Billy Idol.’ When Danger Mouse first played him sample tracks in 2003, including the strange groove that would become ‘Run,’ he could not believe his ears.

“‘As soon as I heard the music, it immediately struck me as mine,’ he recalled. ‘I said, I can’t see anyone doing anything to these tracks but me. And I mean the real me, the inner me, the me deep down that nobody knew I was made up of. All of me.’”

8. “Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism”

“Faced with a confluence of diverse threats — a tanking economy, a housing crisis, looming environmental disasters, and a sharp spike in oil prices — people who do not consider themselves extremists are starting to discuss doomsday measures once associated with the social fringes.

“They stockpile or grow food in case of a supply breakdown, or buy precious metals in case of economic collapse. Some try to take their houses off the electricity grid, or plan safe houses far away. The point is not to drop out of society, but to be prepared in case the future turns out like something out of An Inconvenient Truth, if not Mad Max.”

9. “Al Gore’s New Logo”

“A logo is routinely the most difficult component to design because it is so important, and usually the client wants to be closely involved. An effective logo is a kind of calculus, the sum of disparate parts that adds up to a memorable image or icon.”

10. “The Craftsman, by Richard Sennett: Making It”

“Sennett’s book gathers case after case in which we see how the work of the hand can inform the work of the mind. Moreover, it is through his insistence that thought arises in relation to craft that Sennett comes to one of his more intriguing interventions, a reimagining of the Enlightenment in terms not of ideas but of how craftsmen learned to work.”

11. “Our First Black President?”

“To anyone who tracks it down today, Chancellor’s book comes across as a laughable partisan screed, an amalgam of bizarre racial theories, outlandish stereotypes and cheap political insults. But it also contains a remarkable trove of social knowledge — the kind of community gossip and oral tradition that rarely appears in official records but often provides clues to richer truths. When he toured Ohio in 1920, Chancellor claimed to find dozens of acquaintances and neighbors willing to swear that the Hardings had been considered black for generations. Among the persuaded, according to rumor, was Harding’s father-in-law, Amos Kling, one of the richest men in Harding’s adopted hometown of Marion. When Harding married his daughter, Florence, in 1891, Kling supposedly denounced her for polluting the family line.”