Normally, we post our Links of the Week on Thursday, but tomorrow we’ll be traveling to the National Youth Workers Convention in Atlanta and internet access might be spotty. If you’ll be at NYWC, stop by the COLLIDE booth and say howdy. Otherwise, enjoy the early links.
- Jay-Z’s American Gangster album isn’t available on iTunes because he doesn’t want it broken down into individually downloadable tracks. New music trend or simply the whimsical demand of a rap mogul?
- Jason Fried of 37signals and Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal discuss software, innovation, and other geek stuff.
- Here’s a little more on Granger Community Church’s Beatles Christmas. They go all out, by the way.
- Jeffrey Overstreet discusses film as cause vs. film as art.
- Good news, Weezer fans—new releases are on the way.
- The XO Giving initiative is underway!
- The Writers Guild of America is voluntarily striking, but TV crew members were involuntarily laid off. Here is a grip’s perspective on the strike.
- Brett McCracken looks at how the Writers strike might change TV as we know it.
- This dialogue between a Christian journalist and the agnostic journalist who wrote The Year of Living Biblically is a lengthy, but entertaining read (via CatalystSpace).
- Gibson’s self-tuning guitar is on the way. Behold the Gibson Robot!
- A ton of Marvel comic books are now online at Marvel.com. Don’t call it being a dork, call it cultural exegesis or metanarrative research.