It's pretty fair to say at this point that the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili has dampened the "Olympic mood" around the world, especially because track officials are blaming him. Some info-hoarding search monoliths didn't exactly get the message.

A fun game for poetry nerds: read the first line or sentence of a favorite poet's first book, and imagine it as a summary of the writer's entire career... Meghan O'Rourke, the culture editor of Slate, offers a terse contribution to the first-sentence genre in this, her debut collection: "My poor eye."

Portfolio "Fashion, Inc." blogger Lauren Goldstein Crowe may be new to this internet-writing game, but she's already formed some strong opinions about it. "Anna Wintour hates the word blog, and I have to say I'm with her there. My business cards say 'contributor.'" Nice. Oh, and while declaring your intention not to belong to any club that will have you as a member, why not alienate everyone in that club a little more? "There aren't many sites or blogs devoted to the business of fashion, so I haven't yet felt the need for a formal blog roll here. (If you have suggestions, please post them.) But every once in a while I may point to something I find. Recently I discovered the 'Style Scribbler.' An intreped [sic] internet fashion journalist...." Well, at least Lauren knows some rules of the internets: You don't have to spell good, and you can always pretend to know more than you actually do.

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