Daily Office:
Thursday
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
¶ Matins: Is there such a thing as good luck? Ayn Rand’s fans are certain that there is not: hard work is everything. Jonathan Chait assesses the Rand legacy in light of this conviction, at The New Republic. (via The Morning News)
¶ Lauds: Our latest discovery: MetEveryday. (Thanks, Ms NOLA!)
¶ Prime: David Leonhardt profiles Robert Shiller — in the Yale Alumni Magazine, naturally. (via Marginal Revolution)
¶ Tierce: A violin repair shop in Morningside Hides has been told to cease and desist from violating antiquated zoning restrictions. No, noise is not the issue.
¶ Sext: Links to an assortment of Lost Symbol reviews, at Speakeasy.
¶ Nones: True-life ghost fleet — container ships and other freighters parked off of Singapore. (via The Infrastructurist)
¶ Vespers: John Curran, author of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, lists then top ten titles in her ouevre. How many have you read? (Film adaptations don’t count!) (via Campaign for the American Reader)
¶ Compline: Jason Kottke asks (in a footnote, no less):
You’ve got to wonder when Apple is going to change the name of the iPhone. The phone part of the device increasingly seems like an afterthought, not the main attraction. The main benefit of the device is that it does everything. How do you choose a name for the device that has everything? Hell if I know.