It is a good day for First Amendment advocates… but kind of a troubling one for dog lovers.

Great article on collaboration, with Joseph Young and Christine Sajecki, by William Walsh at Kenyon Review blog.

Padgett Powell appropriated via Loveline, with all questions from 1 episode collaged [via Ubu]

There’s an article that goes with this graphic, but why would you want to read it?

We Are Champion Issue 2 is live, featuring new work by Jimmy Chen, Chris Oklum, Mike Young, Ben Mirov, Joseph Goosey, Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Miguel Morales, Mark Leidner, Reynard Seifert, and an interview with Ben Marcus about his forthcoming Flame Alphabet, who says, “I do this for myself, for my own standards, because I don’t know how to do it for anyone else. I’m the only reader whose thoughts I have deep access to. It would all be guesswork to do this for someone else, to address someone else’s standards.”

See the writer, trying to write himself out of a box, into a larger box.

Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age.

–Watch the entire documentary over at Unsaid!

Tickets now on sale (basically for free) to the LA Times Book Fest, which is next weekend.  I’m going to check out a bunch of these panels, looks interesting.

The Hypothetical Library invents new books by well-known authors.

Calm was born from burning.