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Some (small) common ground

Sometimes it’s interesting where you find items of common ground.

After receiving a nice e-mail last weekend from Joel Rosenthal about a recent post, I took a closer look at his blog, Straight Talk. I knew it was there but hadn’t paid much attention. You see, there probably isn’t a lot on which he and […]

Tim August 14th, 2005 | Tags: , , | Category: Politics, SD Blogosphere | Comments are closed | |

Book marginalia

From today’s NYT headlines e-mail: “Publishers are issuing new paperbacks in a bigger size for baby boomers who are finding it harder and harder to read small type.” Story here. (If prompted for user name and password, head over to BugMeNot). Google’s blog announces it has temporarily suspended scanning any in-copyright books into Google Print. […]

Tim August 12th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

My podcast rant

A brief discussion today on SD Public Radio‘s Computer Guys call-in show brings this about. That’s because one of the guys on the program voiced exactly what I’ve been thinking.

Everyone is going on and on about “podcasts” and “podcasting.” The fact of the matter is this is nothing more than downloading an mp3 file. […]

Tim August 12th, 2005 | Tags: , | Category: Rants | Comments are closed | |

How to become a fictional character

Sixteen authors, including such notables as Stephen King, Amy Tan, John Grisham and Lemony Snicket, are auctioning the opportunity for your name to appear in their next work. The auctions run at various times during September and are a fundraiser for the First Amendment Project.

Earlier this year, Neil Gaiman, another participant, auctioned off the […]

Tim August 11th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Obiter dicta

Karen Armstrong, whose book The Spiral Staircase I highly recommend, has an excellent piece in The Guardian about taking scripture literally. One of her more interesting notions is part of the problem with taking written scripture literally stems from the fact that most major sacred texts were initially transmitted orally. (Via Blog of a Bookslut). […]

Tim August 11th, 2005 | Tags: | Category: Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | |
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