January 12, 2008 – 10:53 am
It’s been a while since doing any sort of round up. It’s not that I haven’t seen good stuff out there, I just haven’t gotten around to posting it. One thing I did get around to since moving the blog to the new server is to update the blogroll. Several blogs that [...]
December 22, 2007 – 9:14 am
There’s been a few glitches along the way. And some of those have led to, “God, I hope this works” thoughts in pushing certain buttons. Still, I think I have the blog transferred to the new server and and everything seems to be functioning properly. It takes a while for the change [...]
December 7, 2007 – 7:41 pm
As continuing work on one of the most significant S.D. Supreme Court briefs I’ve done in years (or ever) has kept my attention all week, here’s a few recent odds and ends as I settle in to watch UM-UND hockey on the tube:
Among the things falling victim to work was an intended post on the [...]
December 1, 2007 – 12:20 pm
As I sit listening to and watching the snow/sleet, I keep thinking how nice a retirement condo in Kona would be. Still, there is something to be said about a snowy day, a real wood fireplace and some magazines and a book sitting next to your coffee cup. Those distractions lead to a threefer:
Pot [...]
November 28, 2007 – 7:46 am
OMG, is Opus gay ?!?!? ( Via .)
Although it only slightly reduces the withdrawal pain, Not The Daily Show sheds light on the core issue in the television writer’s strike. There’s also, of course, [...]
November 19, 2007 – 12:51 pm
I intended to post most of this over the weekend but, proving once again that sometimes procrastination is for the best, the first two items are from today.
Amazon announces its long-awaited Kindle, “a wireless, portable reading device with instant access to more than 90,000 books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers.” List price? $399.00. [...]
November 13, 2007 – 7:38 pm
Oxford University Press USA, the publishers of the New Oxford American Dictionary has announced its word of the year: locavore. Either I am not green enough or trendy enough as I’ve never heard of the word. Locavores are those who try to buy locally grown ingredients and foot products.
Perhaps proving once again the [...]
November 11, 2007 – 12:01 pm
As “fug” is unquestionably being overused in the press and blogs regarding Norman Mailer’s death, I’ll instead note it by a collection of book-related links from the last several days:
Good thing they can only throw digital images of books. LibraryThing calls Shelfari “unethical” and “basically social networking rapists.”
Continuing to encourage travel and international reading, [...]
November 7, 2007 – 6:54 pm
I was originally going to do a somewhat lengthy post regarding the first item below but suffice it to say that while the rhetoric is extreme and pessimistic, a sad truth underlies it.
One of the better politically oriented blog posts I’ve read in a long time: The Barren, Deadly Wasteland that Is Now Our Life.
In [...]
November 5, 2007 – 7:48 pm
No wonder a chill was running down my spine most of the day.
A CJR essay makes a cogent argument that “journalism needs a rhetoric beat.”
Britannica Blog has a very interesting post on why the written word has “no real information value” for communicating with an extraterrestrial civilization.
Colbert may be done but I’m still dreaming of [...]
November 1, 2007 – 6:54 pm
Out-of-state travel is the cause of the latest interruption of blogging — plus it made me go cold turkey for several days from my hockey addiction. Rather than regaling readers with travel tales, here’s several items items I’ve noticed over the last week or so.
Denise Ross has launched a website, including a blog, for [...]
October 21, 2007 – 10:36 am
PP has an excellent post about the Capitol mural South Dakota hides.
Just after posting about Emma Larkin’s Finding George Orwell in Burma, I learned she has been back to the country and is blogging about the state of affairs there at her publisher’s website. (Via.)
There’s an excellent piece in The Guardian on Burmese writers. [...]
October 12, 2007 – 12:48 pm
Maybe I need to read some of Nobel Prize laureate Doris Lessing’s work as she sounds like my kind of person. Her response to winning the literature prize? “Oh Christ, I couldn’t care less!”
Earlier this week I finally got around to watching the 60 Minutes piece on Bruce Springsteen. You need to see [...]
October 7, 2007 – 4:50 pm
JR brought my attention to a NYT article on the uproar over the difficulty fans have getting tickets to concerts and other events. Of course, it certainly doesn’t help if Ticketmaster is correct in alleging one software company developed a program that means ticket brokers are “bombarding Ticketmaster’s Web site with millions of [...]
September 28, 2007 – 7:38 pm
As promised, an assortment of recent material dealing with books and reading:
Given that the first event was last night, I have been remiss in not mentioning that the South Dakota Festival of Books is going on this weekend in the Black Hills.
Micawbers Books in St. Paul, “the last indie bookstore in the Twin Cities not [...]
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