From a Sunday visit to The New York Times, here are the stories I plan to spend more time reading, as soon as I finish reading a book that I should have finished months ago, writing a review of it, and figuring out my summer plans:

• So many Americans apparently now see journalists as self-interested, careerist and unprofessional that perhaps it would make sense for media executives to call up another group of bosses who once faced fundamental questions about their product: the makers of Tylenol in the 1980's...
  
  
• Let's get this straight. Jerry Garcia invented the Internet while he was tripping... (I didn't mean to make drugs a theme of today's posts, but see the final section of the Austin Lounge Lizards item below, too).
  
  
• In case you missed its obituary, the joke died recently after a long illness, of, oh, 30 years...
  
  
• Boilerplate and plagiarism are not the best ways to find a job...
  
  
• For all the hype about the communications revolution, the information capacity, or bandwidth, of FedEx is 15 times greater in this instance...
  
  
• Can you catch obsessive-compulsive disorder?
  
  
• Finally, the Times "public editor" for the past year and a half, David Okrent, titles his farewell column, "13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did." Among other things, he comes out against gratuitous nastiness (by others) and against reducing a complex issue to a soundbite (his own "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?" column).
  

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