If you're doing more of your holiday shopping online this year, welcome to the club. Online shopping this season is expected to increase this year, according to Associated Press:

My name is Jules, and I am a (deep breath, pause) facebook addict.

Boston Globe Magazine writer Charlie Pierce, who profiled Tiger Woods 12 years ago, saw the fiasco coming. Charlie  tells all about Tiger in this Equire.com post. A good read.

Here's a funny bit from the folks at theoutsidejoke.com about the downside of friending mom.

Had it up to here with IPhone apps?

Here are a few new ones, from the mind of Adam Sacks, via The Stimulist.

That's what we're talking about!

Over at Huffington Post, Nora Ephron has compiled the list of Top Ten Thanksgiving Recipes You're Cooking This Year that You Didn't Cook Last Year.

Over at her blog, Views from a Window Seat, author Jeanine Atkins provides a terrific update on  the blogging panel at the Write Angles 2009 Conference at Mount Holyoke last weekend.

And Helene had a sitdown with a literary agent. We will keep you posted.

All in all, a great--and informative--time!

It's that time of year again,  people: we're in Thanksgiving territory!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I don't know whether it's the food, the family, or the "no gifts required," but I  believe Thanksgiving is the greatest holiday ever created, and I know a lot of people agree.

He may be tattooed/unemployed/a video game addict/dropout. 

But here is what your daughter's boyfriend is not:  Levi Johnston.

Who, apparently, is now a tweeting Keats.

At least to hear William Shatner tell it.

(Update: Now Johnston's lawyer is saying the tweets are fake! Quelle surprise!)