In a move that seems a bit premature, even to me, Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

Labor Day links.

* An oral history of Art Spiegelman's seminal alternative comic RAW, in two parts. Have I really never used the Art Spiegelman tag before? (via)

* Amusing Amazon review of Dollhouse.

* If you feel like you missed the boat on speculative realism and want to know what everybody is talking about, Larval Subjects says the Wikipedia entry is, as of today, a good place to start.

* Best of Wikipedia directs our attention to the mystery of the Bloop.

* Daily Kos goes deep inside White House plans to indoctrinate your children into European-style communofascism.

* Another post on status update activism.

* Then and Now with Goofus and Gallant.

More evidence emerges of Obama's European-style communofascism: he plans to attend the opening ceremonies of the 2010 World Cup.