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Weekend Edition: 11-20

Blog Headline of the Week

Tiger Woods Cheats On Facebook With Twitter

Bookish Linkage

Lonely Planet comes up with its list of the world’s greatest bookshops. (via)

Even the National Security Agency has written about the world’s most enigmatic manuscript.

Michael Orthofer of the Complete Review and its accompanying blog, The Literary Saloon, […]

Friday Follies: 2.37

Being “sequaciously servile” results in $110,000 sanction for bankruptcy lawyer.

This (and the proliferation of “reality” TV) is why I don’t own a gun.

Gee, occifer, the reason I be driving now after just one beer is that I was following the guy who knows where the Easter Bunny is. Or maybe he thought […]

Library dealing with reinvention curve

A couple unrelated national items last week drew my attention because they came on the heels of a local news item that I found impressive.

In a syndicated story, the LA Times looked at how libraries are “reinventing” themselves as they “struggle to stay relevant.” Although I believe libraries will always be relevant, they are […]

Book Review: The Ice Road by Stefan Waydenfeld

Good fortune — luck — manifests itself in a variety of ways. Frequently, just how lucky we are comes only with hindsight and even then we may not realize just what contributed to a serendipitous result. Yet the extent of a person’s fortune may well be a matter of perspective, much like the adage about […]

Weekend Edition: 11-13

Blog Headline of the Week

Newborns Make The Worst Roommates

Worthwhile Reading in the Interweb Tubes

A memoir of living with a brain tumour (“I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind.”) […]