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No theme this week. Just a short list of some things I read that I found interesting.

• What You Should Do When Your Internet’s Out
• This trial has only made torrent sites much stronger
• A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
• 15 Film Production Credits Explained
• Why You Need to Monitor Your Online Reputation
• 50 Side Businesses You Can Start On Your Own

These don’t really have a theme, just a bunch of things I read in the past week that I found interesting.

• Get Rich Slow
• 4,439 Words on Driving Traffic to Your Blog
• Making Sense of the Financial Mess
• 7 (Crazy) Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs
• 10 U.S. Breweries to Try in 2009
• Zombies Are the New Vampires
• Twitter Follow Fail: 10 Reasons I will not follow you on Twitter
• Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson

When I say philosophy edition I mean political philosophy and when I say political philosophy I mean readings on Libertarianism. I did some reading this weekend to try to get my mind going. Some days I really miss having serious academic discussions. These days my life consists of debates about tuxedo t-shirts and phone calls about paying dues.

• Code Free or Die: Why Hackers Are so Often Libertarians
• What a Libertarian Is – and Is Not
• Libertarianism and the Left
• Why I am not a Libertarian
• What’s So Bad about Living in The Matrix?*

*This one is thrown in because I read it and it is vaguely related.

Whether it is the government, girlfriends or corporations someone out there doesn’t want you to know this stuff.

• How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders
• How to Rip DVDs
• Strip Club Etiquette
• 5 Coolest Beer Records
• How To Brew Your Own Beer

My thoughts on Watchmen: Very enjoyable film, no way to include everything from the graphic novel. Snyder did his best, definitely worth seeing, even if you don’t know anything about it. If you aren’t familiar with Watchmen don’t expect non-stop action. Be prepared for a long deep look into human nature. The following links contain spoilers, so unless you’ve read the graphic novel tread lightly.

• Filming the Unfilmable: Behind the Scenes of the Watchmen Movie
• Science of Watchmen (Video)
• Artist Dave Gibbons’ Gut Feelings on the Watchmen Movie
• Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic
• 10 Alan Moore Comics You Must Read! (Besides Watchmen)
• The Mindscape of Alan Moore
• Watchmen Soundtrack Merges History, Money
• Movie Review: Watchmen – A Cinematic Achievement in Adaptation
• Myself and Dr. Manhattan at the #Watchmen premiere last night.

• 15 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started My First Blog
• Starting a blog? 12 ideas for blog posts
• 50 Creative Ways to Make Your Blog Popular
• Make Your Blog Popular
• 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky

If you read the recent traffic report, you saw that there are some major gaps in popularity among the hosted blogs. Hopefully this will be a good resource for the current hosted blogs or anyone else thinking about starting one.

• 30+ Websites to Visit When You’re Laid Off
• Jump to a New Career with a Killer Resume and Plan
• Feeling Stuck? 100 Ways to Change your Life
• Quitting the Day Job: Finding the Guts to Pursue Your Dreams

I’ve been tagged several times by the 25 Things post and I refused to participate. No matter how many times I get tagged I just can’t go along with it. Apparently I am not the only one who thought it had gotten out of control, Time magazine wrote an article about the phenomenon. Hopefully this is the last Facebook Edition Weekend Reading I will post for a long time.

• 25 Things I Didn’t Want to Know About You

• Linus Torvalds’ 25 Things

• Facebook Mystery: Who Created “25 Random Things About Me”?

• Facebook flashmob shuts down station

• 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

• Facebook Paid ConnectU Founders $65 Million Settlement

• Facebook’s Value: $3.7 Billion and Dropping

• Fears of impostors increase on Facebook

Weekend Reading is a weekly feature that links to a handful of longer articles found throughout the week which are both interesting and slightly related in topic.

• George Carlin: The Long Goodbye

• Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi – NY Times

• Eminem: What ever happened to that guy?

• Who is next after Springsteen?

If you haven’t gotten on the twitter band wagon yet, what are you waiting for?

• Twubble
• Twitterholic
• Twitter local
• Tweet Scan
• Twitturly
• Twitscoop