On the other hand, if you need something on the lighter side, Tim Dowling at the Guardian has a foretaste of Arianna Huffington's new megablog, The Huffington Post; and there's"D.R.A.F.T.", a parody of 50 Cent's"P.I.M.P." Thanks to David Adesnik at Oxblog for the tip.

Congratulations to our colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, whose book with Erik Gilbert, Trading Taste: Commodity and Cultural Exchange to 1750 (Prentice-Hall) will be published in August. If you hurry, you can pre-order it! Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the tip.