daily still-sick-and-sloppy

art and literature
-Ask Joan of Art your American art-related questions. (via spitting image)
-The Alphabet's Bastard Children. Experiments with the alphabet. (via ober dicta)
-A Neil Gaiman profile and summary of the new Sandman project
-A Quick and Easy Guide to Banned Books Week For Librarians

other
-Emmy results. John Stewart takes the award for best variety series over Letterman, Leno, and Conan.
-Love.com, a US News review of online dating services. A short excerpt: "Warren founded eHarmony.com, a Web site built around a 480-item questionnaire covering all sorts of personality traits and "basic subconscious wants." … The matching process is rigorous enough that 14,000 benighted souls who have used his site have never scored a single match."
-Presidents and the Paranormal, from Quiddity, who has lots of occult-y links this week.
-Are you an Anomalously Sensitive Person? Unfortunately, the answer will cost you $15. But the quiz (PDF) reassures me that not being able to balance my checkbook may simply mean that I'm psychic. (And psychics, obviously, have other ways of finding out their bank balance.)