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Friday procrastination: link love – jazz albums, Ivy-league classes, and graffiti

Another sweltering week has passed and Friday is here again.  Lean back in your desk chair and check out the quality procrastination we have posted for you below.  Still have hours before the weekend begins?  Read this month’s posts on the OUPblog.  Have a great weekend!

Social Media is important, the video.

Read Dave Eggers story in this week’s New Yorker and then have a wild rumpus of your own.

100 Ivy-league classes you can take for free at home.

Why the best selling jazz album of all time is so great.

Would this campaign encourage you to pick up the book or pick another stall?

It is time to welcome the class of 2013, just remember they have never used a card catalog to find a book.

A crazy NYC population map.

Pluots versus plumcots.  Either way, they are delicious.

Jayson Blair has a surprising new career.

A disturbing domestic violence graph.

Thus spake Zora.

Novak on Novak.

Have you seen graphitti like this?

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