Song for November 4, 2008
[hat tip The Daily Dish]

Drunk Dialling for Change . [MacDaddy World.] Hiliarious. But touching, somehow.

Hopes for a happy ending: Literary voices on the American Election [The Independent]

Overwhelming evidence that Hospice Care saves money. It doesn’t take a commission to suss that, not to mention the quantum increase in quality of life at the end. [The Irish Times]

Copper door handles and taps kill 95% of superbugs in hospitals [The Daily Mail] Many, if not most, Irish hospitals, please note.

Google’s Copyright Case: Settlement Is A Wake Up Call [Tech Check]

…writers are indeed seeing the writing on the wall: their world is going digital in the same way music and movies did before them.

El vínculo de Juan Ramón Jiménez con América
Cuatro muestras reviven en Huelva la relación del poeta con el continente [El País]

Cesare Pavese, el solitario de las colinas
El centenario del escritor revela la permanente actualidad de su literatura [El País]

10 Fun Facts About Pablo Picasso [Neatorama]

The Things He Carried Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. [Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic]

Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann/Placenames Database of Ireland, arna fhorbairt ag Fiontar (DCU) i bpáirt leis an mBrainse Logainmneacha (An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta) / developed by Fiontar (DCU) and The Placenames Branch (Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs).