links for 2009-08-06

"Although The Smashing Book won’t be published until late September, you can secure your copy today. Now, why would you do that? For one reason, you will get the huge discount: 20% off the regular price. If you pre-order now, you’ll pay just $23.90 USD. And, of course you will be among the first to get The Smashing Book fresh off the press."

"Plans by German scholars to reprint Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” as an academic treatise were rejected by the state copyright holders, who said a new edition of the book could fuel support for far-right groups. The Bavarian authorities this week reaffirmed a 64-year-old ban on the book after the Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History, or IFZ, applied for permission to reprint the work. State officials said that extremist groups could have legally promoted the book if the ban had been lifted." Dumb.