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Weekend Edition: 7-23

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Farmageddon (“If you long for the days of an agrarian based democracy and family life on the farm, you have to buy Terry Redlin prints to capture the time. If it ever really existed.”)

Rescuing Books (“Being told to keep two copies of a book in stock and […]

Out, damned typo

I’m not surprised when I see typos in book galleys or advance readers copies. After all, these come before a book is finally coming off the presses. Over time, though, I have been surprised at the seemingly increasing number of typos in finished books. Now it appears computers may be to blame, at least in […]

Weekend Edition: 7-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Menace Within (“No behavioral research that puts people in that kind of setting can ever be done again in America.” (via)

The Death of NASA and the iPad (“Do you really think a great future exists because we can check our emails anywhere, or watch television shows […]

Friday Follies 3.14

Federal appeals court says a lawsuit by “a disgruntled cheerleader mom” over whether her daughter should have made the cheer squad is no more than “a petty squabble … that has no place in federal court or any other court.” And don’t miss the footnote on the last page of the opinion. (via)

Meanwhile, the […]

The need for libraries in a connected world

One of the magical and essential functions of public libraries is they provide users basically free access to information and opportunity. As much as people want to talk about the impact of e-books and the like on libraries, this has not changed. If anything, it may be growing more important, as evidenced by a recent […]