-Rachel Donadio has a fun essay in the Book Review on how the information age will effect future biographers and historians (the moral: make sure your Boswell backs up your hard drive).
-As gas prices continue to soar some companies are turning to other means of transport for employees, like zipcars.
-Wonder where those trees went in front of Grace Church? The Villager reports they got taken down in preparation for an underground gymnasium.
-NY Waterway and Gray Line tours want to build a landing facility for a fleet of "ducks" at Pier 78. What's a duck? It's an amphibious bus for moving tourists around.
-The Post has an excerpt from Candace "Sex and the City" Bushnell's new book, if that sort of thing floats your boat (or duck?).
-Not only will the lucky girls attending the new charter school Girls Prep get the perks of single sex education, but they will also get music instruction from the always entertaining Third Street Music Settlement.

-If you haven't given something yet for Katrina relief, please do.

-And finally, a reminder. Tomorrow is Labor Day, a federal, state and local holiday. Courts, government offices, financial markets, and banks are closed (not to mention most everything else). Post offices are also closed, with the exception of the Farley Post Office on W. 33rd and Eighth Ave., which will be open all day. Holiday parking rules are in effect. Buses and subways are running on a Sunday schedule. And last but not least, garbage and recycling pickups AND street-cleaning rules are suspended.