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Friday Follies 2.22

San Francisco’s health department has issued “Regulations for Preparation of Edible Cannabis Products” for the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries.

An Anchorage, Alaska, man was arrested for felony assault after stabbing his roommate with deer antlers during an argument. (via Legally Weird)

Foolishness is not the same as incompetence. Sounds like a new legal maxim to […]

Just what I needed to hear — e-readers slower than paper

Sure, the same day my Nook arrives somebody’s gotta release some scientific study on e-readers. And what do they find? People who read books on an iPad read 6.2% slower than when they read a printed book while reading on the Kindle is 10.7% slower than print.

Now, granted, the study doesn’t include the Nook […]

Mid-year reading report card

As usual, my reading personality is split this year. By the end of June, I’d read 52 books this year, 25 fiction and 27 nonfiction.

Of the fiction, nearly half (12) were works in translation with French and Spanish accounting for three each. Of the nonfiction books, 10 were history (if you include recent […]

Lighting my BBAW sparkler

It was just under a year ago that I first became aware of Book Blogger Appreciation Week. It sounded intriguing but, because I was unfamiliar with it, I basically just observed. As I did, there were aspects of it I didn’t have the time or inclination to do — and some actually seemed a bit […]

Weekend Edition: 7-3

Bulletin Board

Earlier this week the South Dakota Festival of Books announced the presenters for this year’s festival, to be held in Sioux Falls September 24-26. Once again, it’s an impressive and diverse list.

Blog Headlines of the Week

Dog Bites Man; Media Simply Bites

Okay, who stole King Tut’s penis?

Interesting Reading in […]