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Bulletin Board Tomorrow is the start of Banned Books Week. Because I am underwater at work and have scheduled a life-altering event next week, I will not have my weeklong posts devoted to the topic this year. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes 50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters (“Five decades […] Bulletin Board The 2012 South Dakota Festival of Books kicks off Friday. You can download a program or register for the 10th anniversary event. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (“The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Politico-psychopathology (“Not that politicians and pundits are mentally ill in a clinical sense, but politics in American national life today can only be presented in pathological form. Politics no longer involves the public use of reason; it is instead a matter of psychopathology…”) (via) On Cursing (“There […] There is a place where the literary world and the gaming industry intersect. It’s the Nobel Prizes. Once again this year you can place bets on who is going to win the Literature Prize. Once again, Albanian author Ismail Kadare is considered a contender. As of this review, he’s one of three authors listed at […] It’s a t-shirt I’ve always wanted. It said, “In dog years, I’m dead.” I’m starting to think the same thing applies to blogs. Today is the 10th anniversary of this blog. Certainly, it’s not the oldest blog out there and it has changed focus over time. But it seems to have outlasted many. How long […] Bulletin Board This is a sort of double edition as travel before and during the Labor Day weekend kept me from posting last Saturday. Thus, a couple items are a bit older than usual. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes The village where people have dementia – and fun (“It’s not the sort of slow, […] |
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