...and then it's back to work.

* World map quiz. It's possible I've linked to this once before.
* Joss Whedon talks to EW about his upcoming Buffy: Season Eight comic.
* Independent readers have questions for Richard Dawkins.
* A Conversation with Stephen Colbert at the Kennedy School of Government.
* From Fimoculous's list of Best Blogs of 2006 comes two good ones I haven't been reading: Indexed, which specializes in the production of graphs, and Corpus Obscura, a blog from the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages memorializing those people "whose accomplishments vastly exceeded their fame."
* "Thematically, it's about the very simple idea that, in this Postmodern world of ours, human beings—all of us—are worth less. We're worth less every day, despite the fact that some of us are achieving more and more. It's the triumph of capitalism." Slate talks to David Simon, creator of The Wire.
* Worlds of Warcraft Guild: ABDs considered, Ph.D. preferred.