Assorted links

1. The Bolaño Syllabus.

2. Does Medicare forbid posting surgery center prices?  And a digital diaper for tracking health.

3. Which French names do best at school?

4. You are not an artisan.  A bit meandering but interesting and multi-faceted and with some depth.  I liked this sentence: “In other words, we’re more afraid of machines taking away our social status than our jobs.”  And here is the al Qaeda vacuum cleaner.

5. Japanese markets in everything, yakuza magazine: “…it actually boasts of a poetry page and even fishing diaries from its senior members.”

6. “Dating in Moscow is a war…“