* Wizard's How to Draw Superwomen. Remember kids: sexy isn't just a superpower, it's the only superpower. (via Bookslut)

* Woody Allen is in the New Yorker, and so is a critique of string theory which posits that maybe beauty isn't truth, truth beauty.

* Haruki Murakami has won 35,000 euro for his latest book of short stories. At the current exchange rate that's just over a billion dollars.

* Kottke has still more The Wire links. This show is really getting a lot of buzz lately. The first disc of season one is still sitting on my table; I think tonight's the night I crack it open.

* The only trouble with "Hugo Chávez May Have Anger Management Issues" at McSweeney's is that it obscures the important point that Bush really is the devil.

* The Ballad of Big Mike.