Last week we from from Boston to LA and then flew back on Wednesday. The long flights gave me a chance to clear a bit out of my Instapaper backlog. I was going to do some sorting, but I though it was also interesting to see what order I read everything. Expect to see some, but not most, of this blogged over the next couple weeks. Especially good articles are starred. Check out the list, you'll find something to read this weekend.

Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles.

Das Racist And Other Friends I Never Made In College | The Awl.

Dynamite the Levees: Amazon’s Triple Threat to Undercut the Consumer Biz | Epicenter | Wired.com.

Amazon's new Kindles.

The Sporting Scene: Baseball’s Wild Night : The New Yorker.

A VC: Minimum Viable Personality.

Rays, Cardinals to Playoffs: Baseball's Unforgettable Night - TIME NewsFeed.

**On Why We're Not Doing A Food Truck : Lonestar Taco.

Kal Penn: It's Time to Ignore the Paralyzing Cynicism and Get Engaged.

The Fraying of a Nation's Decency - NYTimes.com.

The Call of the Feral | HiLobrow.

Dishing - Boston food blog.

Dishing - Boston food blog.

Sam Sifton Out As 'New York Times' Restaurant Critic, Named National Editor.

Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, On Americans (Not) Getting By (Again) | TomDispatch.

Very Deep in America by Lorrie Moore | The New York Review of Books.

Culinary school grads claim they were ripped off - Yahoo! News.

As a chain, value comes in simpler, hearty dishes - Food & dining - The Boston Globe.

**Jody Adams Under Construction - Boston Magazine - bostonmagazine.com.

How Whole Foods "Primes" You To Shop | Fast Company.

Eric Schmidt challenges teachers: get with the program — Tech News and Analysis.

Square, the iPhone Credit Card Machine, Goes Mainstream - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic.

Cochinita Pibil at El Centro - Feed.

**How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela | Felix Salmon.

**California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair.

Bill Simmons' NFL preview has a some relatively bold predictions and a message about the value of togetherness - Grantland.

**Malcolm Gladwell on Bruce Ratner and the Barclays Center - Grantland.

**Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? : The New Yorker.

rickwebb's tumblrmajig (Disrupt, Disruption, and the Nobility of the Tech Scene).

**Chuck Klosterman interviews Bill James - Grantland.

**Everybody Loves Our Town – Full Chapter Excerpt | MTV Hive.

Why America Is Addicted to Olive Garden.

Are You Building The Right Product? | TechCrunch.

Q&A: Paul Ford, writer, nerd, father | DADWAGON.

American Drink | The Old Fashioned.

Don’t ignore Tim Cook’s sexuality | Felix Salmon.