Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

APOCALYPSE . . . Are American writers obsessed with the end times? From Ben Marcus at the New Statesman: "[I]n American fiction at least, the end times has graduated into de rigueur subject matter." (Link from Arts & Letters Daily.)

TWO ABOUT FACEBOOK . . . (as if you already haven't heard enough)--

"If Facebook dies (and it might), its killer will be born mobile," by Molly Wood at CNET (about the web's incompatibility with mobile);

"The Case for Facebook," by Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic (self-explanatory).

VONNEGUT . . . In the Nation, William Deresiewicz examines Kurt Vonnegut through the lens of the Library of America.

APPS . . . For future reference, the Lifehacker App Directory, a "constantly maintained and updated directory of the best applications and tools for computers (Windows, Mac, and Linux) and smartphones (Android and iPhone)."