Friday's Notes

Dan Colman,"Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites," Open Culture, 5 June, notes 45 sites you'd want to know about.

Andrew Holgate reviews Roger Crowley's Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 for London's Sunday Times, 7 June.

Mark,"Weed, Booze, Cocaine and Other Old School ‘Medicine' Ads," Pill Talk, 9 June, features medicinal ads from a less regulated generation. Hat tip.

Sarah Churchwell,"The real Tramp?" TLS, 10 June, reviews Simon Louvish's Chaplin: The tramp's odyssey and Miranda Seymour's Chaplin's Girl: The life and loves of Virginia Cherrill.

Terence Hawkes,"William Empson's influence on the CIA," TLS, 10 June, reviews Michael Holzman's James Jesus Angleton, the CIA, and the Craft of Counterintelligence.