In Georgia today Gov. Sonny Perdue is arguing for a new bill that will make teachers’ pay pend on how their students’ testing scores come out. Somehow the program will also cost taxpayers. Curriculum remains unexamined. In other news, though I still don’t like Kid A, I listened to “Everything in its Right Place” 57 times in repetition at JFK airport and on the plane returning home.

Barry Graham shoutout at Chicago Now. He’ll be reading tonight at Quickies! (along with others who glow like tongue-cannons)

Oh, good.

“I am more proud of the books I have read than the books I have written.”   Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevdeo

Poeteevee is a new online poetry video series curated by A. Lee Abelson. First two readers are the magnificent CAConrad and the legendary Eileen Myles. Check it out.

Employee: See, the thing is — and I don’t know how much you know about it — it’s all stored in a database on the backend. Literally everything. Your messages are stored in a database, whether deleted or not. So we can just query the database, and easily look at it without every logging into your account. That’s what most people don’t understand.

The Rumpus has scored an interview with an anonymous Facebook employee for Conversations About the Internet #5.

Harvey Pekar has a web comic.

Check this out- Gawker’s got copies of a whole bunch of paperwork related to the  Herman Rosenblatt fake-Holocaust memoir that Oprah made a big deal about back whenever. It’s a nifty little peek into publishing.

I have to interview myself for something. What should I ask me?

Coldfront has posted their Year in Review 2009 ranking all things poetical, or not. Best ranking categories: Best Opening and Closing Lines in a Collection. Best Cover. And Dean Young’s 31 Poems (Forklift, Ink) got a nod in the Best Selected/Collected category (the book DOES rock) and the Best Physical Artifact category (while looking like a million bucks).