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• 20 Reasons Why 2009 Will Be The Year of the Ebook
  I don't know if 2009 will be the year, but it does seem like a major shift is on the horizon...
• Atoms Arranged Meaningwise
  More on David Foster Wallace and analytic philosophy
• Email Makes Lying More Likely?
  Interesting article discussing a recent study. The results suggest that people are more likely to lie to people over email than face-to-face communication.
• More on the "Uselessness" of the APA
  A lot of buzz in the philosophy blogosphere regarding the APA - Here is a recent installment. The discussion is worth the read.
• Men's Winter Fashion - Men's Style Advice - Esquire
  Click through to the fifth photo [HT: Leiter] - I'm totally adding a fashion tag for this one.
• Seven Suggestions for Future APA Meetings
  Funny post from The Philosophy Smoker. Also good suggestions.
• Women Profs Spend More Time on Teaching, Less on Research
  It'd be interesting to see whether this holds true of philosophy profs. Also, averages are one thing, but another interesting stat would be, what's the M/F ratio of, say, the top 20% of researchers. And of the bottom 20%.
• 60 Philosophy works in 60 Days
  A speculative fiction author is reading a classic work in philosophy each day for 60 days, and blogging about the experience.
• Logic for Philosophers - Sider
  Sider has a draft of his logic book up on his website (all 367 pages).
• Knowledge and Experience: Teaching Philosophy of Science
  Great post on an alternative framework for teaching phil of sci by focusing on problems in the special sciences rather than general issues in the philosophy of science such as realism, explanation, etc.