"The fate of physical books may seem tenuous, but at least 1,000 copies of 100 different books are set to be printed roughly a century from now, in the year 2114. Indeed, the trees that will be used to make the printing paper have already been planted."
This is a beautiful text that is made up entirely of material reused from other people. It's truly wonderful. I wanted to write a similar text but then this was pointed out to me and was clearly better than anything I could have put together. I vaguely remember reading this when it came out, as well. It would have been wonderful if I had accidentically plagiarized his idea as well.
"The first thing I didn’t write about quitting Facebook was a status update to my friends saying, I’m quitting Facebook."
Awesome profile of Barry Duncan -- "master palindromist."
(Quasi-)literature review of Wiki(p|m)edia research from 2009-2010.