I found one element of Wired‘s review of Everything Bad Is Good for You, Everything Bad’s Not Bad, inadvertantly amusing:
[Everything Bad Is Good for You]‘s chock-full of interesting insights that are clearly the reflection of an agile and catholic intellect.
The reviewer (or editor) actually linked to a dictionary definition of catholic.
I planned on picking up the book, of course, but this might get me to pick it up even sooner:
The essay begins with a rumination on Johnson’s own boyhood experiences exploring dice-based baseball simulations and Dungeons and Dragons games, and describes how he graduated from playing those simulations to building his own in search of a more realistic experience.