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1. Todd at Frolic reviews Bjork's recent album, suggesting that "the heavy traffic of bootleg remixes of Bjork music has freed the singer to ignore the dictates of the pop format."

2. Venkat Balasubramani discusses the subtle subversion of Bollywood by Hollywood (or is it the other way around?), after this post by Tyler Cowen.

3. Not surprisingly, Daniel Drezner's Foreign Policy piece about the influence of blogs focuses on political discourse. It's mostly storytelling, but there's some valuable insight into the future value of blogs as well.

4. And via Language Log, here's a ranking of the top 100 speeches of all time, with some audio. Obama's keynote isn't there yet, but it will be.