From the 14th to the 21st, I will be in Italy on vacation. This means that I won't be blogging, so I wanted to let everyone know not to expect anything. When I return, I plan on posting pictures and my travelogue on blog, so look forward to that.#

I will be going to Rome for 5 days and Sorrento (which is near Naples on the Amalfi coast) for 2 days. Excited!

If you just can't live without me, then I want to recommend some blogs to read this week and some of my older posts you may want to check out.#

Blogs:

• The Marginal Revolution
• The Binary Circumstance
• Just a Gwai Lo

These are a few of my favourite blogs for getting a diverse picture of the world, and I hope you will find that true about them as well.

 

Older Entries:

• Patent Theory versus Patent Law, a discussion of the patent system, by Alexander Tabarrok (of the Marginal Revolution.)
• A commentary on The Western Canon, by Harold Bloom.
• This post goes through many essays of George Orwell's.
• A commentary on The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis, a book about good and evil.
• Some quotes from Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, a book about the choices humanity makes and has made.
• A commentary on The Culture We Deserve, by Jacques Barzun, a cultural historian.
• A commentary on The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond, a historian with a scientist's mind. Or, a scientist with a passion for history.
• A commentary on Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig, a discussion on how the law must deal with the Internet, and vice-versa.
• A commentary on The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, by Shadia B. Drury, an explanation of this influential man.
• And, my commentaries on the Purgatorio and Paradiso, of Dante's Divine Comedy. (There is also one for the Inferno, but it's not as good and I want to re-write it.