Margaret Atwood remembers a 1978 trip to Afghanistan.

The NY Times Tolkien Archive, including reviews of The Hobbit and LOTR from the 30s and 50s.

This is apparently old news, but I just read about it: Romania is building a new theme park: Dracula Park. Universal Studios wants its cut.

The NIST Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems [via linkfilter]

George Soros talks with NPR on globalization (RealAudio).