Some random links perused over the holidays

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Tyler Cowen lists policy areas in which his views are uncertain. It's refreshing that even an economist of his stature can admit that he is uncertain on so many issues. Cowen links to Arnold Kling's list of what he is certain about.


Vladimir Putin is Time's Man of the Year? Interesting.


RIP Borat, RIP Ali G. May you live on through the annoying and lousy impersonations of thousands of young males across the world.


Google, without asking permission, decides to share all your shared items in Google Reader with all of your GMail contacts.


Warner joins the DRM-free movement at Amazon's MP3 store.


M. Night Shyamalan has another of those twist movies in the works, releasing next June: The Happening.


Sleeveface is the art of augmenting the art on a record sleeve with your own body. You can't do that with a CD cover, unless, of course, you are a really small person.